The 'Sioux Early-Aggressive Raid'
Premise of the strat:
To utilize the Sioux’s speed cavalry and military shipments
to damage your opponent’s economy more than you damage your own.
Build Order: - At the start of the game you’re going to collect ONLY your
food crates and queue 3 villagers. All villagers will go to food, with 1
villager herding any nearby huntables.
- Send your Warchief immediately towards the enemy base to
steal any treasures around him. Why take close treasures when you’re much
faster than him, right?
- Upon collecting the 800 food necessary for aging up you’ll
want to choose the ‘Messenger' (Fast Age Up) tribal member. During the transition to Colonial
you should have 6 villagers on food and 2 on gold.
- Once you’ve reached Colonial your first shipment should be 4
Axe Riders. Use these to raid enemy villagers and keep him from gathering
resources. If he has somehow managed to herd everything into an easily defended
position you can use these troops to help gather any large treasures on the
map.
- The first 3 villagers you create in Colonial should go to
gold, then after that villager coming out should head to wood so you can create
a War Hut. (You have 6 on food, 5 on gold, then guys on wood until you can
afford a War Hut)
- Your second shipment will be 3 Axe Riders, use these with
your initial Axe Riders for additional raiding power, or on big treasure maps
extra treasure gathering ability.
- Your 3rd shipment will be 10 pistolero, you
should have 500 gold just in time for this. Once you have the necessary 500
gold for these re-distribute your villagers to food and wood as you see fit for
your army.
- At this point in the game you have options. One is that you
used a War Hut and can mass a Cetan Bow/WarClub army with your Axe Riders an
Pistolero. The other is to create Bow Riders and massively raid your opponent.
This is very map dependent and civ dependent so using correct judgement here is
crucial. Personally, against a non-musk civ I’ll go Cetan/War Club, and against
Musk civs I’ll stick with Bow Riders but this is a matter of preference.
This strategy leads to extremely exciting and intense gameplay. I hope you enjoy it, and have fun killing all of those undefended villagers. :)
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