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Nederlandse Gitaar Held:

Also, make sure that each building secures resources, but is close enough to fire on another one being attacked. Colonial Militia can be a better card than 300 coin if u expect to be rushed.

This strat I mentioned above uses no 1st age HC shipments. 1 for age 2 (700g) and one for age3 (fort). after that one can send anything one likes. ^^

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However, when I concentrate on age 2 I send either the shipment that gives +10% all gathering rates or early dragoons (only if enemy makes loads of cav {like against a german player})

I usually mix xbows and pikes and throw in 11 musketeers and attack.

The best FFs are towards the 7:30 because when u age, u get something from the age up. Aging very fast really isnt a great decision; once arrived at age 3, u have NOTHING and u rely totally on your shipments.

Well this situation really has two sides to it...

If you decide to get a little somethin' somethin' with the ageup to age 3 you will have some units to defend your village, but no time to construct a fort if your enemy is aggresive. Plus if you don't use the fast ageup your enemy might have attacked you before you reach the 3rd age.

With fast ageup you won't have units that quickly but you will have excellent protection from any age 2 attack as you have a fort protecting your colony. And it's easy to make units from the fort or to send some from ur HC afterwards.

Kaarle_W:

Well this situation really has two sides to it...

If you decide to get a little somethin' somethin' with the ageup to age 3 you will have some units to defend your village, but no time to construct a fort if your enemy is aggresive. Plus if you don't use the fast ageup your enemy might have attacked you before you reach the 3rd age.

With fast ageup you won't have units that quickly but you will have excellent protection from any age 2 attack as you have a fort protecting your colony. And it's easy to make units from the fort or to send some from ur HC afterwards.

+1

I like the Dutch strat where u FF with 18 villagers (none from cards) and 2 banks, then as soon as u hit fortress get a fort and advanced frontier defenses. This pretty much forces a boom contest, and being Dutch ull win if u can get in a cannon attack, skirm/ruyter spam or even Waardgelders and Hackapell uber raid. For 2000 coin and a shipment, u get a raiding party capable of completely massacring enemy settlers, and can wipe out a mine or forest with ease if Waardgelders go around the back and hackapells push from the front.

I only play dutch when I'm sure I can FF, so usually against a Port player or other dutch players. And when I do I usually use the Parfait's 3 bank FF that MrMilo posted here, only with some minor modifications.

Whatever he brings to your town, if you have a fort and some skirms his ´rush´ will be doomed to fail.

James2424:

I was FF with port and reaching thrid age about 5:15. But not really good units and i dont no wat to do. Any other civ u can age up with 500 food for age 2 then very fast aging?

omg u guys bother to answer this.... please help me with a "real" problem at this link http://forum.agecommunity.com/forums/717591/ShowThread.aspx#717591 help will be appreciated

wen do i attack with a port ff and wat with are all my cards after the fort military?

Scout, find out what your enemy has, and go for counter units. If you see him going to fortress age as well, attack and strike his military buildings first, as he will have resources you don't want him to spend on soldiers.

as to what to send and what to create, it totally depends on what your enemy has in his town:

Since you're in age 3, almost any infantry he has can be taken out with cassadores and organ guns.. Dragoons work wonders against cavarly (ranged attack 22, 3x multiplier against cav already in age 2, i don't remember the stats of a veteran dragoon) and if you need siege power you can make veteran pikes or halberdiers.. Even organ guns do decent siege damage if they are great enough in numbers.

i can ff with sioux and have a bunch of cav at the same time.

spahi ff with otto easy too

 

m working on a ff with India, i love to go ff with euros and petard Asian wonders hehe

 

 

 

look up the (un)Official Portuguese strategy Thread. There's a great ff strategy ther that leaves you with 5 organ cannons and 7 halb. you age up at 5:55-6:25. supremacy section.

Germans can also do this, although they dont get 3 TC's. But what i do is usually age with 5 settler wagons and 7 settlers with 500 food and put settler wagons old gold till i have 300 during age, once iage i send 700 gold and finish collecting crates then use the fast age politician and usually arrive around 5:30 then my next card is 8 skirms coming with 3 uhlans for 11 units, then ill have barracks makinf skirms and usualyl attack at 8 mins with around 20 skirms and uhlans and a good eco. pretty good especially since te skirms are veteran. or you could always just use the fort for a FF turtle followed by settler cards and such.