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Using archer cavalries against RCF Diamond (top 5 player, Gauls). Diamond has better economy than most of the Britons champ spam users and were able to defeat them. First game, a Romans player and Seleucids (me) with no economy against Diamond and a Britons player with massive economy advantage. Two more games, a Britons player (using champ spam) and Ptolemies (me) against Diamond and a noob. Discussion: Basically, archer cavs are a quite good DPS (9.8) if protected by high armor infantry, which takes the aggro. Among non-champions, pikemen have the highest armor. Egyptian pikemen under hero aura have almost the same HP and the same armor as champ swordsmen, and no other non-champions are even near. So I was testing this army composition against champ spam. The critical weakness is pikemen walk half the speed than champs, making it useless for macro and sometimes totally ignored. Also, champ swordsmen run too fast, so purely archer cavs can't win a micro battle against champs. Javelin cavs are not a good DPS even though they have the highest raw number (22.4, higher than champ swordsmen). Their short range makes them die fast and run around a lot before actually starting to attack. archer-cavs-against-rcf-diamond.zip

This is a simple hotkey, yeah, but maybe should still have as minimap button. Also, all buttons should show the shortcut key in a tooltip I think.

one more German here GMT +1 (winter), GMT +2 (summer) My nickname actually issues from my preference and excessive use of Paladins in AoE2 when I did some LAN parties with my friends many years ago. If they tried to counter with spearmen I just smashed them with siege onagers. gg with 40+ Paladins then. We all didn't play often, so they didn't come up with some more effective strategy. Whatever, I somewhen wanted to write an epos inspired by Lord of the Rings and Greek mythology. When I was thinking about a name for one of the main characters I was just modifying the word "Paladin" in several ways and came up with this one. Actually the project wasn't going anywhere further than about 50 pages of notes and drawings... And when I first had to choose a nickname then I took Palaxin and ever since then. I think once I took a different nickname ("Nougatschnitte") which literally means "nougat sandwich" in German but is also used for hot chicas Back then I had a friend who essentially called everyone and everything a Nougatschnitte (and influenced me badly) EDIT: actually you call chicas "Sahneschnitte" (cream sandwich) in German, but "Nougatschnitte" is the invention of this German Let's Player. Obviously my friend used that word so much that I forgot that it doesn't really exist Sorry for going so far off-topic!​