Flush Micro

Overview

Learn the little tricks of flushing and micro managing your armies!

Scenario Info

  • Victory: Kill the king in the center. He has 5000 HP, so that gives you some room for error.
  • Way to victory: Capture the center by a tactic of your choice! But since the scenario is about flushing… Well, you get the hint.
  • Players: 2
  • Civs: Byzantines

On the Battlefield

The mother of all tactics: the flush or the feudal age rush. Since there are different types of flushing, I might as well start out with one of the most common ones: skirmishers+spears. Scouts and archers are also very popular but since you’ll be playing with the Byzantines, it’s not so weird to eventually end up with a lot of skirms and spears. You start out with a small economy: 8 wood, 8 farms, 4 berries and 4 idle villagers to make your military buildings of choice.

Manoeuvring

Some basic tips to gain advantage:

  • High ground: the central arena is very hilly, so try to capture a hill and force your enemy to attack from lower ground.
  • Villagers: early on, villagers are very resistant to trash units (skirms/spears) so throwing them in might prove to be useful. Very micro intensive though and make sure it doesn’t ruin your economy!
  • Towers: even though you receive no stone at first, it might be handy later on to control hills or whatever area you want. The Byzantine towers are also slightly stronger!
  • Army composition: since this scenario is developed to be played with Byzantines, the armies might turn into rather predictable combinations. If you want to add some variation, you might pick other civs like Huns, Spaniards, Saracens, Mayans, Turks, Goths, Chinese, Mongols, Persians etc… (Mayans so you can play around with archer <> skirmisher balance and the other civs for their bloodlined scouts that allow you to give a twist to the feudal age battles.
  • Raiding: there is no possibility to raid the enemy. Unless you’re really lucky or persistent of course.  The purpose of this scenario is to train your military combinations, manoeuvres and economy balance. The next step is to blend raiding in the mix, but that’s for later.

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Written by Cysion

  • JohnnyL

    For Singleplayer, try it with the “Megaflush AI”. It was released on the blacksmith on AoKH about a year ago.

  • Zappa

    This scenario doesnt seem to work. Are there special settings needed? The opponent just does nothing and I only need to send a couple of skirms to the center and wait until the king is dead…

    • http://www.cysion.be Cysion

      It’s meant to be played in multiplayer, the computer doesn’t really know how to flush :/

  • Dec

    Playing into my hand, i suck bad at flushing. THANKS!