1. I always try and use FH as my strategy cuz thats what someone told me to do who convinced me to switch to ISIS from NORSE but FH seems different from map to map, for example its fine in higher food maps but water maps its really slow and I have to spend money defending my foods.
Anyways another problem I seem to have with this (guess it'd be number 2 on the list but is related to FHing) is finding the right balance between booming with an added TC or 2 which drastically brings down my food, shortens my FH time and forces me to build barracks units, and just going straight to heroic but with low resources.
If I try getting TC's it should in theory allow me more food production and gold mining, but it also costs alot in gold and those civs cost alot as well. This kind of defeats the point in choosing ISIS to FH though, why be ISIS if not to fast heroic and be able to attack with the ancestors/eclipse pluse midgol units combo. This has to be done fast but its really hard cuz u need to again boom to afford an effective attack. Usually if u dont boom your opponent wil and can easily out muscle u to the finish line. After your first attack fails they'll have the funds to kick your ass.
And yet many higher ratings swear by the FH method and can make a good living at it but wtf I dont understand how some ppl heroic in like 6 minutes like whats the point u dont have any resources at this time right?
Anyways Quite often Im finding I have to use ancestors just in defense and once its gone I'm basically fhked cause Im spending gold on expensive midgols and axemen and slingers and cant make any of the good stuff midgols make. On top of this I usually get the bright idea of trying to send in some seige towers out of desparation along with no army and at 200wood 100 gold a pop I'm quickly depleted. Plus my frequent merc use screws me farther. Sure they help some times but if I'm spamming mercs it usually means I chose to boom and my gold is suffering from the TC cost.
I know getting it right is supposed to be a balance but I'm just figuring this out on my own and my goal is to consistently be in the 1600s and then get 1700. I dont think Im that far off but I need some advice on how to go about playing ISIS.
So many smurfs out there to keep u down...ppl that make a new account 5 times a week and beat u while being 1560 or 1620. 1560's are usually just using someones account and beating up on noobs cuz their assholes but still demoralizing.
Plus I get psyched out by ppls ratings, i totally play different against a 1620 from a 1580. My advamce time will be really shiatty against the former but I'll advance fast and play fluidly against a 1500s guy then once I hit 1600 i get psyched again and almost fall back down immediately...
Shit I really need help with this civ someone give me some advice please.
....I'll be waiting.
(edit)One other thing is I got beat badly by this 1560 odin guy. I kept accusing him of smurfing but he remained steadfast he wasnt and well, maybe he wasn't and I was just over reacting.
Anyways I got him in a quick set up game on the map entirely surrounded by water with seals on the frozen edges (forget name anyways). I tried getting a strong fishing setup and building a sceond TC soon after classical. I thought he'd be a noob. Anyway I guess it was the wrong choice cause he smothered my mining and killed my 1 TC with ulfies, Axethrowers and some hesirs despite the protests of the few mercs I could higher with only 230 gold and 8 gold miners (mistake?, I think so but the mines were well spaced and he raided). So odin owned me here.
The next game I got the same dude again. This time I tried to turtle and the map was elfheim. I couldnt turtle entirely I still needed food so sent my labourers to the center to pick up soem caribou.This guy was on me 2 minute later like flies on shit. And I had barely aged. My foodies were dead and oh ya I forgot to build houses so I noticed I was housed way too late. No wonder I had 1200 food before I noticed lol. So anyways this game bascially ended the same as the last. I had no food and he had a TC adjacent from me. I know i stank the shit but how can Eggy beat a fast rushing norseman who's gonna take over everything. If u defend it by turtling when u finally emerge from your shell your already smothered. Any suggestions I will heed and also plz try and answer the original questions I posed before this edit.
Thx for reading this book of a post=p I tend to ramble as quickly as my mind supplies my fingers with fresh thoughts=p
I just want to stop fhking ISIS up, and get into a system I can play with that works and more importantly, produces wins. My current system is irratic, unpredicatble and unproven.
Whats the definition of insanity?
Doing something the same way twice and expecting different results...
THINK ABOUT IT!
[This message has been edited by orbital_havoc_3d (edited 07-27-2006 @ 04:08 AM).]