Age of Empires 3 Archaic spanish unit spam is highly underrated

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Archaic spanish unit spam is highly underrated Posted: 20 Nov 2019 07:30 AM PST This is my favourite strategy when playing against AI, and find it really fun. With the correct deck, you will be able to instantly create pikes and crossbows. When I say instantly, I mean it: If you ctrl+click the unit icon the barracks will vomit all the queue, with the corresponding xp. This might make people roll their eyes and say "yeahh sure instant pikes and xbows uuuuh scarey scary". Well it IS actually something to fear. I recall a deathmatch game against some dutch player where we turtled for about 10 minutes. I set a very strong economy base and a few key cannons, specially horse cannons since they are fast and have nice damage output. The dutch player went for mass halbs and cannons too. We started with a nice clash: I started massing up lancers, and had an interesting fight. But I sneaked some villagers around his base and built a barracks on his back. And started vomiting tercio pikemen. A constant flow, a really thick stream of men that demolished his economy. Pikes have a surprisingly high attack against buildings: 20 pikes can take down a fort in less than what a couple mortars take. The dutch guy pushed back with his halbs first. To be fair, the pikes died. Damn sure they died. But for each dead pike, more were on the way. And things turned horrible for him when the og frontline started to advance with more pikes. Yes, halbs have a higher attack and are tougher, but does it matter if the enemy has triple your numbers and has instant respawn powers? For the final nail in the coffin, I started making crossbows as a chokepoint in the middle on his base started to form. Yes, crossbows, on imperial age. Well it turns out that unction in ridiculous when on massed xbows. I won. On the other hand, I also made 10k pikes on an hour in game lmao. Now you will say "yeah but this thing is extremely niche. If it weren't for the surprise barracks, you'd have died". Well no, I believe that this is duable in team games. The archaic spam can act as meatshields to more powerful units, lets say, mass siege. With unction, not even gendarmes clear the constant stream of pikemen (they take too much time to make, and unction works on the base damage of the pikes (making the multiplier essentially instant death to target mounted unit). And do not forget that you can still make other units appart from your scrumtious fodder. Spanish have a very large infantry tech and lancers are supremely good. submitted by /u/OOM-32 [link] [comments]

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