I am the Ra. I hit heroic nicely and without any problems. I made my nice army of camels and chariots. I threw some siege in and i went to beat my enemy as usual.
Unfortunately my enemy was smart enough to keep raiding my gold mines(and scout them with his birdies or jarls) and to counter my units(with huskarls and jarls).
Additional Comments:
Great Game! Good play on both sides, with both players showing the strengths of their civilizations.
thsu
Posted on 01/24/03 @ 01:11 AM
Rating
3.0
I've read NIB's forum postings, so I know he must be better than this now. While the Ra FH is fine, the attack strategy afterwards needs work. NIB neglects to continue scouting/raiding resources - just a small raid and he retreats, without even disrupting the enemy no less. This gives Odin the time he needs to wall in his resources.
Since Odin walled in 1/4 of the map, this should have been a kiss of death for him. With 3/4 of the map given freely to Ra, I would have had a builder double the walls and set up a huge trade caravan, use shifting sands to drop a raiding force behind the walls, or build a remote siege/barracks to take down a rear wall and raid.
NIB File Author
Posted on 01/31/03 @ 11:29 PM
Ah. This game was like 1 1/2 months ago when i had like 1650 rating. Of course i sucked back then. I actually thought i did good, till i recently saw it again and noticed how bad i sucked :p
0 scouting,0 initiative(waited too long), 0 raiding, 0 walling.
At least i quickly adapted when my enemy changed to huskarls and made axemen but then my enemy changed to jarls and he had like 2-3 hillforts, i had 1 midgol so i couldnt pump camels as fast as he could pump jarls so my poor axemen got raped big time.
I think i am the guy that raids the most on aom now. I dont know why, i am addicted to raiding. It really upsets my enemy when i do that. Get 5 camels, raid, fall back, send a new set of 5 camels to raid while you heal the first set and so on. Too bad now ra is nerfed and i have to play on classical(no raiding unit).
PS I really hate those damn birdies that can scout. Also i couldnt make caravans since he kept raiding me and he had good scouting.