Hello, I am on 11xx 1v1 and I am being crushed many times by many different strategies, but that's all good experience if you understand how to do better the next time.
Atm I open straight archers (with plans to learn to make a good m@a into archers soon) usually with britons but also ethiopians or vietnamese, and it's quite well made (A/A+ on cicero's BO scenario), but the problems come up after that, since I am often going to castle after my opponent (almost all do scout rush or fc and have much more food income sooner) and I don't know what to do. After that almost all new vills also on castle will go to farms, so that I soon will have a very big food income that I can't spend and for that i try to make knights, because when opponent saw me and spammed skirms, I feel like it's useless to make longbowman/arbalests.
I have some questions for this:
1) Should I keep making archers maybe a mix 75/25% of archers and skirms or I don't know what percentage?
2) Could the ranged units be accompanied by light cavalry or they are totally useless except for raiding?
3) Should I make mangonels or rams and how to move them in battle to get the most of them?
4) I should just push every vill to wood (ouch, it ends soon) and gold or use the market or making knights is a good thing?
Thanks for all
Atm I open straight archers (with plans to learn to make a good m@a into archers soon) usually with britons but also ethiopians or vietnamese, and it's quite well made (A/A+ on cicero's BO scenario), but the problems come up after that, since I am often going to castle after my opponent (almost all do scout rush or fc and have much more food income sooner) and I don't know what to do. After that almost all new vills also on castle will go to farms, so that I soon will have a very big food income that I can't spend and for that i try to make knights, because when opponent saw me and spammed skirms, I feel like it's useless to make longbowman/arbalests.
I have some questions for this:
1) Should I keep making archers maybe a mix 75/25% of archers and skirms or I don't know what percentage?
2) Could the ranged units be accompanied by light cavalry or they are totally useless except for raiding?
3) Should I make mangonels or rams and how to move them in battle to get the most of them?
4) I should just push every vill to wood (ouch, it ends soon) and gold or use the market or making knights is a good thing?
Thanks for all