Polska Paladinska

Overview

Afraid of a civrape? Try out the joys of an all out double sling.

Settings

  • Game Type: Random Map
  • Map: Arena
  • Players: PL_Dziamdziak + [TWP]MaGraOo_ + [WEPA]EnSuNota_ vs [RoR]wAkKo + [HyM]Cyclops + DyT_D4ntE
  • Nicks in game: PL_Dziamdziak + [TWP]MaGraOo_ + [WEPA]EnSuNota_ vs [RoR]wAkKo + [HyM]Cyclops + DyT_D4ntE
  • Civs: Franks + Huns + Vikings vs Mayans + Turks + Celts

War Story

If I had to make a top 5 of “best Arena teamgame civs”, I would definitely put Turks, Celts and Mayans in and I would definitely leave Franks and Huns out. But that’s just theory, because Dziamdziak’s team proved there’s no such thing as a civrape. Right from the start they noticed they had to come up with something exceptional to beat these civs because booming would render them dead without a chance, especially if the game would’ve gotten to post-imp. Their quick thinking lead to the following tactic: “All sling dziam!”. Magraoo was a Spanish pocket, so that’s not the most obvious civ to perform a sling. He stayed in feudal and threw all his resources in a Frankish pit. Magraoo was Huns and decided to go for a castle age sling. Which immediately started to look very bad because D4ntE decided to do a Celtic castle drop+ some kind of FI. Especially since Magraoo refused to loom all game long!

The action was on the other side of the field however: Dziamdziak did a FI with 2 slingers and went paladins. However, Cyclops was Turks and did a FI too. Backed up by single slinger Wakko. Dziam made castles too in first instance but they crumbled under Cyclops’ artillery. Dziam was thus forced to go all out cavalry. Cyclops noticed this and started to blend camels in his gunpowder mix. To no avail because he was simply outnumbered. Dziam also decided to launch an attack on Wakko in the meanwhile, effectively handicaping Cyclops’ supersized economy. Wakko defended well (being feudal vs imperial) but eventually had to give in and only managed to save about 15 villagers. This was nearly the final stab and with Magraoo being able to build up an army too, they took on the other players together.

Polish Paladins to victory!

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Written by Cysion

  • blob

    nice game.
    by the way – magraoo was huns and ensunota spain

  • DMZ Regicide

    D4ntE decided to do a Celtic castle drop+ some kind of FI.

    wow :) What’s this thing? -_^

    • http://www.cysion.be Cysion

      It’s a typical Arena tactic: drop a castle next to the enemy’s wall and protect it with a little bit of siege and monks (if played smart, that should protect you from most attacks). Then get to the imperial age as fast as possible (typically 1 TC) and use trebuchets to slowly push the enemy back.