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since the chinese have powerful fortress age troop shipments, is this b.o okay? (its an all out military strat, so not including lack of vils....)

age1 - age with 15/16 vils (or earlier)

transition - put about 2/3 of ur vils on gold

age2 - ship 700 gold. dont train vils. only collect food and gold. age to fortress asap.

transition - move all gold to wood, build housing, consulate. train vils and put them to gold.

age3 - if u only shipped 700 gold, then u should have 3 shipments ready, ship in military and then go forward and build war academy.

notes - age up with (1st) porcelain tower (2nd) summer palace ( 8 arbeaquiers)

the best mili shipments in age 3 are 10 arbesquiers, 11 changado, 7 hand mortars. then ship chu ko nus/pikes/steppe riders ( the larger the number the better).

this works with a low lvl hc.

collect treasures for xp of guardians, dont take on too big a treasure for your monk and disciple. dont train additional disciples untill fortress. if u r rushed, but wont be able to survive till fortress, try shipping colonial shipments and using irregulars to hold off attacks.

 get the 6 muskets from consulate as soon as u can afford in age 3. from age 3 try keep up vil production as per usual, but keep more troops coming. with this my score was 180-190 around 13:30, only treid vs AI so far, buut wat do u think?

beastman8593:

This strategy is good. I use about the same thing frequently with one exception. Instead of shipping 7 hand mortars I ship 2 flamethrowers. This is a big advantage because flamethrowers destroy infantry and that early in the game noone has that much cavalry. I have beaten up to a major with this strategy and it works very well in nr 10. You should try it..

Supremacy strategy not treaty strategy.

i just played some game vsing chinese, and the flamethrowers sucked. the didn't do a whole lotta damage, and i just didn't find them effective.

and nr 10, whilst being treaty, is not really treaty as most people regard treaty, it should really be a sup option.

you don't have any eco power after the 3 cards...

you basically attack with 18 arquebusier, 11 changdao, and 7 hand mortars in about 8 mins, its pretty slow, and it is almost impossible to take down TC with only that much troops, if the enemy gets a shipment of any unit, u die.  Not to mention almost everybody rushes in this version.

this strat will work better on India (even better cards) or spain (faster cards), but i don't recommand it anyway

that's just a basic chinese FF, but tweaked in a negative way :\

this is the real chinese FF: 

age with summer palace (400f), first card all res trickle, just keep making vills (of course) and put them on gold, ship 700g (you should have 1200f and 300g by the time it arrives), age with confucian academy (8 arqs) and always keep up vill production. put about 12 vils on wood while aging and build village+rax, take some off of wood and put them on food and spam changdao+arq batches from rax and summer palace with art support from age3 wonder, not to mention very strong shipments.

still a very nice FF, despite the nerfs. 

o and snowfox 18 arq, 11 changdao and 7 hand mortars at 8 mins would be pretty F-ing OP, with his strat i'm guessing you'll have this amount at 11 mins. (no, you won't have 3 shipments ready unless you get OP treasures).