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I need some good german strats.

how do you rush with german?? with cards you use and in with order.

and how you do an FF ore a defensive FF. think i will lose a straight FF.

and who would you rush against and who would you ff against??

normal my favorite units is cav. what you think about german cav? 

PLZ explain your strats what cards you use and when and how many vill you age with and how many on wood food and gold.

thank you all who have helped me.

PS. i know some says that german sucs.

Well i cant really help you.

Sorry!

But i wanted to say my friend i play with in 2vs2 matches uses german and they are great for rush games.

He builds a huge aremy of skrimishers early on.

Just for some info me and him are privates and we beat 2 seregeants took them out in like 10 min

Sorry i could not help accept german is a good civ and good luck

I usually stick all my villagers on food and just do a 17 pop age up and after aging up stick all my settler wagons on gold. In the first age the 2 settler wagon shipment helps to get your villagers faster. Then I ship whatever supplies I need to get to age III quickly and use the extra Uhlans to do some early villager raiding. In age III I'll make lots of skirmishers etc.

This probably isn't the best strategy, it's just an amalgamation of all the reading I have done on the Germans and other people probably have better advice. 

I can give you a German Cavalry start BO though this is most definetly used for team games and not 1v1 as it's pure uhlan.

Age 1 - 1 Settler Wagon to collect all food crates and one wood crate, shift click him to build house then hunt. Other two hunt right away as everyone else from TC. First card is 2 Settler Wagons. Age with 12 vils (including wagons) using 400 wood politician.

Transition - Send one settler wagon to a forward position and set him on wood. Gather any remaing crates. If you had no extra wood crates put another villager on wood. Put 7 villagers on coin and leave the other 4/(or 3) to gather food. Queue up some vils.

Age 2 - Immedaitely send 700 coin and get someone to collect wood crates. Build a stables and two more houses using this. (stables first asap at fb). All new villagers from TC to food or coin depending whichever you need most. As soon as your Stables up start pumping Uhlans. Send your two from your 700 coin ship to fb and send for 5 uhlans at next shipment.

If you can get a good BO down you'll end up with about 27/32 uhlans at 7:30 on a normal map. Usually at this point you'll find you won't have enough resources to conitnually pump out uhlans since the 700 coin bonus has gone and some vils would have to move to wood for houses etc so now is a good time to rush! Very effective early on as large numbers of cavalry in age 2 are hard to deal with. Just make sure your team mate targets any pikes/musk

wow. so many on 7.30? very good strat will try it with my mate. what means BO and FB  ??

and thanks for your help. you explain your strat very good. even a noob(me) can understand it

Build Order and Forward Base

Also it will probably take a few practises to get it working perfectly but once you get the BO down then those wins should be queueing up! 

BO= Build order, basically what you create and contruct throughout the process.

FB= Forward Base, or military buildings around the center of the map where you create your armies.

from what i know, u should send 2 settler wagons (discovery age), then 9 crossbows, then 3 settler wagons/700 gold/5 uhlans, train lots of crossbows from ur FB, never stop raiding with uhlans

germans are really OP if u can control their uhlans well

TMOUllrich:

I can give you a German Cavalry start BO though this is most definetly used for team games and not 1v1 as it's pure uhlan.

Age 1 - 1 Settler Wagon to collect all food crates and one wood crate, shift click him to build house then hunt. Other two hunt right away as everyone else from TC. First card is 2 Settler Wagons. Age with 12 vils (including wagons) using 400 wood politician.

Transition - Send one settler wagon to a forward position and set him on wood. Gather any remaing crates. If you had no extra wood crates put another villager on wood. Put 7 villagers on coin and leave the other 4/(or 3) to gather food. Queue up some vils.

Age 2 - Immedaitely send 700 coin and get someone to collect wood crates. Build a stables and two more houses using this. (stables first asap at fb). All new villagers from TC to food or coin depending whichever you need most. As soon as your Stables up start pumping Uhlans. Send your two from your 700 coin ship to fb and send for 5 uhlans at next shipment.

If you can get a good BO down you'll end up with about 27/32 uhlans at 7:30 on a normal map. Usually at this point you'll find you won't have enough resources to conitnually pump out uhlans since the 700 coin bonus has gone and some vils would have to move to wood for houses etc so now is a good time to rush! Very effective early on as large numbers of cavalry in age 2 are hard to deal with. Just make sure your team mate targets any pikes/musk

first age2 shipment is 3 sw, not 700g, you won't need it to keep up uhlan spam unless your macro suxs :). 

1v1 german strat, i posted it somewhere, lemme look it up. 

edit: here http://z15.invisionfree.com/A414A_clan/index.php?showtopic=44

it's the basic german xbow spam and you'll see a lot of experts using it. 

goodspeed:

first age2 shipment is 3 sw, not 700g, you won't need it to keep up uhlan spam unless your macro suxs :)

Well ok if your macro does suck then go for the 700 gold

The idea is that the game isn't going to go past 8/9 mins so I figured a burst of resources would be more effective though I haven't tried the 3 SW for this strat.

in 1v1 you'll want to send 9 xbows and go fort, cav semi-FF, actually a pretty known german strat.

(card order 2sw, 3sw, 9xbow, 700g)