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yeah. sounds good. you rush with your 9 xbow and raid with your cav ore do you defend with them and do you build mill before you age to fortress.

know i am doing a xbow spam on a FB with some few pikes to take cav and then just keep him down ;-) and wait on he will run out of eco and raid all vill he will try to get out off his base. work very well with good mirco now i only need some more marco skills and i would be on my way to be captain

tnx for all your tips

Can always need more. with civ would you FF against? and how you counter india??

mill?

nono u don't build mill you just keep your hunts close to your TC, same with xbows. you just raid with cav and when he starts pressuring you, you play defensively using minutemen and TC fire and watch out not to lose your xbow and uhlans. 

age3? less than 10 mins, but imo don't use that strat, it's pretty hard to pull off against rushes.

not saying it doesn't work, but you'll find yourself in a pretty bad situation if you can't micro perfectly. 

oki.

have tryed to ff with it. it works but lose in age 3. i span WW and skirms but they always own me. think WW sucs. skirms kill them too easy.

only go WW if you're facing really strong cav that'll beat ur uhlans like cuirassiers or mahouts, otherwise uhlan+skirm will do with WW or doppel shipments.
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As German you should NOT FF or Semi FF.  Maybe against certian civs but against most civs all you need is to rush and fight in colonial.   Germans Colonial is very strong. 

What you should do is your first shipment in age 1 is 2 settler wagons which is a given.  During transaction put villagers on wood till you only have 5 or 6 on food (I normally just have 5 on food).  I build a market with 100 wood that I gathered and get the wood upgrade if I have the gold i'll get the hunting dogs 2.  You should have enough for a barracks as soon as your aged.

use 1 settler wagon to gather from the 400 wood.  Que either 5 xbows or 5 pikes (depending on opponents civ i'd do 5 pikes) Send the 9 xbow card as soon as you hit colonial.  Always have villagers qued up.  After you send 9 xbow your next shipment should be 3 settler wagons then 700 gold/5 uhlans.  I do the 5 uhlans but thats just me.  Put all the villagers coming otu of your tc eitehr on wood, food or gold once you make a stable and plan on making uhlans.

Hope this strategy helps i'll put more detail if asked :). 

blade55555:

As German you should NOT FF or Semi FF.  Maybe against certian civs but against most civs all you need is to rush and fight in colonial.   Germans Colonial is very strong. 

true, going colonial is almost always best, but FF is still strong and against civs that are expecting a colonial rush and preparing for it, an FF can catch them off guard and win the game.

though there are players that actually scout (say lvl 32+) :)

might seem as if i said FFing sucks, but openly FFing (while opponent knows) is mostly still strong or even best in some situations.