The Asian Dynasties

A nice 35 minute Dutch vs Port game with a ton of action. Congrats on your medals!

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Homer_J - 2061



+ Used the inca post for its upgrades which helped you rebuild your army alot faster and also made it harder for him to hit and run your muskets.
+ Took control of the trade posts and researched stage coach to give you resorces when needed. You also did well fighthing for map control in which you eventually won.


- In early fortress you kept some pressure on him with you cassidors. However varying the side in which you attacked from and harrasing more would have given you more of an advantage, to the left of his base he had unprotected villagers gathering food, attacking from this side would have also made it alot easier to avoid TC fire. Later in the game this side was also very open and had half of his villagers there, again try scouting and attacking from differnt sides.
- Remember to put your infantry in stagger mode when facing cannon fire. On a few occasions(17:30 as an example) you lost retreating men to his cannon fire, having them in stagger mode could have prevented you losing as many men as you did.
- When he was pushing into you base at 23 minutes you were spamming muskets at his mainly skirmisher based army. Although Guerreiro's do ok vs veteran skirms, adding some cassidors to your army would have prevented you wasting so many men. Also done forget about organ guns, since the boost from the patch they do very well against infantry.
- When you attacked on 28 minutes you lacked culverins to back your heavy cannons up. Even though you had a larger/stronger army than he did, his culverins quickly took you heavy cannons whilst his skirms picked your muskets off. I also think you should have gone hussars alot earlier than you planned to as he had no anti cav for most of industrial. The same thing happened again on 32 minutes where you lost your whole army to the same combo(almost exaclty the same situation).
- Keep using your spyglass throughout the game, it would have come in handy a few times when you attacked without knowing what you were upagainst. Another option is to send a unit in first to scout.


Try not to lose so many men to cannon fire by using stagger mode. Also remember to make a more diverse army to counter his better. On the + side you boomed well and managed to use cards/natives/church to make a strong army that you could rebuild quickly, this and your superior economy won you the game.GG

Player Rating: 6.5

SaintTail - 2005


+ Showed good micro at times, you managed to kill his larger army a number of times because of this.


- Dont build your artillary foundry in such a obvious place, hiding it behind you base or even at the side would have prevented you from losing it so easily. Had you placed it further back, you could have got more cannons out the repel his attacks and maybe even given you a chance to push forward earlier.
- Try using petards(6 petard shipment) to destroy his TC's to stop his booming. They are also hadny for taking back map control in which you struggled to have all game. Also wehn you pushed forward, making more petards would have made it alot easier to destroy key builings as you had no real siege units(also consider adding some halbs for siege).
- Upon reaching industrial you were very slow to upgrade your men. use the market to trade for resorces that are needed or switch villagers around so it makes it easier to upgrade. Also use the aresenal for Counter Infantry Rifling to make your skirms more affective vs HI. The arsenal also has some good upgrades for your cannons which would have come in handy.
- When pushing forward on 19 minutes you had more than enough wood to make some barracks/stables near your fort to give you a stronger position and also make it easier for you to pump men out when needed. You eventually did make one barracks but it just wasnt enough to really make a push. Your men were taking far too long to get to his base which eventually lead to him pushing you back out.
- Make sure you get the maximun number of banks up that you can, you went through all the game with just 5 banks. You could have sent the bank wagon card to add a 6th or traded at the market for resorces that were needed. Always make take full advantage of banks.
- Dont forget about the local native tribes. The inca TP has some very good improvments that homer took advantage of. Here are a few.

Incan Road-building:
300 Food & 300 Coin
· Benefit: +20% Infantry speed
· Age Available: Discovery

Incan Chasquis Messengers:
250 Food & 250 Coin
· Benefit: -25% Infantry, Cavalry, & Artillery build time
· Age Available: Discovery

Incan Metalworking:
175 Food & 175 Coin
· Benefit: +20% Mining rate
· Age Available: Discovery


Overall you did well, making one push that could have ended the game had you made more forward barracks and used petards more. This was really your main downfall, as you didnt finish him here (or even really do any damage to his eco) he was able to come back at you very fasy with upgraded men and win the game. GG



Player Rating: 6.2

A very exciting game with some almost constant action from both players. Homers better economy got the better of his opponent in the end. A good watch for all port/dutch players.

Also im nominating this game as a ROTW contender.

Game Rating: 6.4

Review done by meast
Rating out of 10

This post has been edited by snakefire82: Mar 29 2007, 02:06 AM

This ROTW is nice I am glad to see Homer finally get in 1 ROTW after posting 3 contenders
Edit: The review bleongs to meast, snakefire . You should have recognized that I differentiate each one of my review from others by using politician portraits, and this one doesn't have them

This post has been edited by ThePhilospher: Mar 29 2007, 01:40 AM

fixed