[How does one make rams at 14th min or earlier]

So after watching few replays there n there i minized my siege machines time to something between 17th to 20th min by shamelessly copying the pros (depending how much time i waste filling my population limit etc)

 

but some guys do it at 14thmin or earlier - how to do that? my barracks and castle already are working 24/7

 

 

also is there a way to watch replays of borg and other good players somehow? when borg was playin live there were 20 spectators so i couldnt join :v

 

[Please reduce speed of battering ram]

5 minutes ago, macemen said:

Which civilization are you playing? Seleucids have swordsmen from the Military Colony (Thracian Black Coats). Ptolemies also have swordsmen from their Military Colony (Galatian (?) Swordsman). The Kushites have the Napa (?) Clubman that has hack attack if I remember correctly. You can also use your elephants to destroy rams to great effects.

so Hack the type of attack working vs rams? I thought its Crush because wiki says crush is effective for buildings and siege machines

[Please reduce speed of battering ram]

althrough im new, i noticed typical game looks like players make a lot of archers for the back and a lot of melee for the front and they also include siege machines. my fav civs dont have battering rams so i send 5 elephants. my enemy sends 5 battering rams.

 

battering rams take dmg from all archers and some melees and are alive. they crush building by building till they get CC.

my elephants maybe crush one building then die from archers either ungarisoned or garrisoned in fortress (elephants are very vulnerable for arrows) (actually thats why i gave up on crushing fortress with elephants, its never worth it, all your elephant die just from 20 garisoned units, while one battering ram would be enough in this case to take down fortress).

one battering ram can take as much damage as siege tower can or even more? and he has 5 of them, and they crush bases at insane speed.

 

i also had 5 catapults in base just to counter rams but they deal much less damage than rams that i barely killed one ram with 5 catapults (and they were firing constantly).

 

enemy dont even need to invest in infantry, they can use rams to block most of damage and no matter what you do you are in losing position even if you win the battle with him you wont kill 5 rams in time. (even if you win battle (i mean kill most of his human units) he will get your CC , next time he will get CC and barracks, progressing in each attack even if you had advantage in eco and army (and thats because you usually dont have enough firepower to kill even half of his rams, well I have the units but they dont do dmg))

 

maybe im missing something but my barracks have 0 swordsmen and pikes+spearmen+archers do very low damage to rams.

 

 

 

[Countering rams]

how can I counter rams? user with weaker economy and much much weaker army just kept destroying my base with 10 rams, i often fall victim to this tactic.

 

I kill some with women, some with elephants, some with swordsmen

 

But he always manages to get me.all my barracks units do absolutely nothing to them

 

i can only kill few rams with women and elephants, after that my women and elephants are killed. there must be somemoreeffective way to counter rams? honestly his army was smaller 5 times than mine but he still made it

[I quite like 0AD - heres few of my thoughts]

On 9/13/2018 at 8:58 PM, Jofursloft said:

In truth I personally think that every type of ranged unit in this game is well balanced: for a frontal attack for example skirmishers + heavy pikes or slingers + pikes (it happened me many times to beat a slinger  and pikes spammer with ptolemies skirmishers and heavy pikes)

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but isnt it exactly the same thing just with other naming? you both used pikes frontally to take dmg while spammed enemy to death with ranged units at the back?

[Two or three questions i cant find answers for.]

Hi! I have 2/3 question i cant find anything about.

 

1.

I love the "guard unit" feature. but i noticed no matter if i press ctrl and/or shift then it still lets me guard only one unit.

in case i have 20 guarding units, and 20 guarded units (or more) then it will take me time to assign every of guarding units to each of guarded units. and theres no time for it usually in games. if some of guarding or guarded units die and I decide to reproduce them or simply make more then I again have to repeat this slow process :|.

       Or is there a shortcut button combination to make 20 units guard all of the other 20 units? without assigning them one by one

 

2.

Does siege tower shoot AOE or it sends 10 arrows to single target?

             Also, do I need to click on enemy to make it shoot arrows, OR it will shoot arrows even if I just move it around the enemy? To precise question more, does siege tower attack people while moving or it has to stop to shoot arrows?

 

Thanks!

 

 

oh ended being 2 questions only.

[How to avoid archers from shooting siege machines and buildings?]

I lose about 30-80% firepower every teamfight because my archers think its okay to atk siege machines.

 

How to prevent it? usually when I notice they attack wrong thing my army is already half  dead. more over, i choose them to attack one of enemy archers, and they take time to start attacking him (note a lot ofarrows are wasted on dead target simply because they all shot in the same time) and then when that archer is finished about 50% ofthem attacks machines again instead of enemy human units.

 

 

 

howto prevent attackign machines and buildings?

[Ratings Disputes and Offence Reporting (Discussion)]

afaik if u finish him then u get points even if he left

[I quite like 0AD - heres few of my thoughts]

3 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

Yeah we are working on it. What you are doing though is a reach of the terms of use and you can be banned for it.

Well it uses the same underlying ELO system. You can guess the leagues that way.

 

Yeah. There is no money here so we don't do advertisement. Make sure you are using the latest versions though.

 

 

i didnt say im cheating rating. but it made rating seem less important so i stopped playing 1v1 for rating. i play them for fun eventually. 

[I quite like 0AD - heres few of my thoughts]

 

 

I played a bit, here are my thoughts:

 

- rating system is way too easy to cheat, all u need to do is launch second instance of AD or use your friend to resign on purpose.

     - apart from that ranking system is not developed at all. something like in league of legends would be great fit to this game

- This is quite good RTS game but lobbys are empty. Bad marketing i guess?

- about 40% of people joining your game are lagging so much that they make game impossible for you. next 30% are leavers. so you are left with 30% of small playerbase if you want to play.

 

 

gameplay:

- everyone plays the same. they rush machines, 200 slingers with 48 ranked attack range, and some pikes for first line (to stop u from reaching slingers), basically SPAM. its annoying honestly. this game is battle of slingers and eventually archers, but usually just slingers.

 

theres no single player that won against me that didnt spam slingers.

 

 

 

apart from that its good addicting game