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Advice on beating the Cuman feudal age 2 town center boom?
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Usually at my elo (1100-1200) when I match with someone going Cumans on Arabia, I can assume that they are going to go for the 2 TC feudal age boom. To counter it, I've tried drush FC and FC into a forward siege push, but sometimes they will get military out early enough to take out the siege and then raid me, or they'll just outboom me and the 2 TC choice will still have been worth it. Are there other strategies you recommend for countering it?
Thanks!
Top Comment: I seen Hera punish Viper’s 2 tc boom in a team game with a Korean tower push. Again it’s pros but it may work.
Was anyone else's town beset by New Age Travellers/Crustys in the mid to late 90s ? Where are they now ? How were they received in your town ?
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Just reminiscing about the days of hash and Prodigy, sipping an orange Woodys at some rave on the side of a mountain back in 1999. Hearing the clerk of a small town shop refusing service to a Mohicaned gentlemen on the grounds of "drugs". The make shift housing, the pretty but smelly girls, the crackle of a rolling tobacco joint Intermingling with their humbling funk. Was it just up in Lietrim or was there other hamlets blessed by these Fraggle like people ?
Top Comment: I remember seeing a ton of them in West Cork. I imagine they've all been replaced by affluent Brit retirees by now.
For An Outback Australian Town, This is New Age
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We have one telecom service provider here in our town of about 150 people, with access to ADSL 2+ or NBN SkyMuster as our ISP options. I’ve now had Starlink for almost two years, and it’s capabilities have unlocked words of potential for our small town. It has seriously enabled new business opportunities for those in town and outside of the shire, because of this competitive access to modern technology.
The benefits are numerous, but here is a few: Council has provided free wifi at one of our Shire townships that would otherwise have no communications; many residents in town have now begun taking up dishes because of its capability to run on a generator when we have no power; Council road camps are getting RV dishes; and, we are even coupling guest network services in our caravan park.
While Starlink has its clear faults, and Elon is a right drongo, suffice to say the actual technology deliverance has been astounding for myself and my town.
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I just installed this at one of our cattle stations 3 hours South of Emerald.
They went from 25/5 to 220/12, game changer.
[SPOILERS] In the Dark Age, there was town called Eaton...
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In a town called Eaton, there lived a Drifter with the name Germaine,
Germaine's hands shook when the Warlords, Risen who conquered the land they found, brought Judson back to Eaton during midday a week later. Half the town came out to see them.
One of the men wore red armor that fit the description of the Warlord that Dryden and his Lords were waiting for.
They say that one Risen, reasonably armed, can annihilate an army. Two Risen, assuming adequate cover for Ghost support, can fight infinite armies indefinitely.
Six Warlords dismounted their machines in a line at the center of town, weapons drawn. They dropped Judson on his knees in front of them. No restraints. He looked unhurt.
"Does anyone want to claim this runt?" asked the Red Man.
"We will," Germaine said. People groaned. Yu tried to run to Judson, but her parents held her back.
"A question, first," said the Red Man. "Where are the Iron Lords? We saw one of their Ghosts. One of these?" He tapped the bladed carapace of his own drone companion as it floated past him, its eye fixed on the townspeople. "They like to meddle. Maybe they helped you, brought you some food? It would explain how you survive out here in this wasteland. But I can guarantee you their motivations are not in your best interest." The Red Man paused, scanned the crowd as his Ghost orbited above him.
“The Iron Lords are trying to disrupt the established order. And we're here to liberate you from them. You're under our care, now. So. Where are they?"
Germaine shut his eyes a long moment. When no one else spoke, he decided he would. "You're right. They were here. But they're long gone. We paid them for supplies and they moved on a week ago."
“Did they?" The Red Man raised his hand cannon and shot Yu's father in the head. The entire crowd flinched and huddled together as the man fell backward. Yu's mother cried out in fury, but held her child tight.
"Hand to my heart," Germaine said, holding his breath as he waited for the hidden Iron Lords to make a move. The Red Man held his gun in the air, watching the townspeople intently. The other Warlords scanned the horizon, gleaming weapons at the ready.
Judson took the pregnant pause as an opportunity to pull a Fallen shock blade from one of the Warlord machines. He gave a triumphant yell and decapitated the armored Risen closest to him. As the body fell, he jabbed the length of the blade through the Red Man's back. A third Warlord pulled the glaive out of Judson's hands and stabbed him in the side with a gauntlet blade, then hurled him backwards over the machines.
All hell broke loose around Germaine as the Iron Lords suddenly opened fire from their positions in the surrounding hills. The townspeople scattered as the fallen Warlords rose in scintillating pillars of Light, the weapons in their hands roaring to life and spitting tracers.
**
The Ghost watched from high above the chaos. Over the ages, it had gotten very good at hiding. It had gotten very good at all the peculiar things its chosen had asked it to learn.
Down below, gunfire and explosions of Light tore through the collection of huts and shacks. The townspeople fled for their lives in the midst of fire and otherworldly flame as the Iron Lords finally abandoned their sniper positions in the hills to close in on the Warlords at the town center.
Through it all, the Ghost saw one of the men emerge out of the discharge of an errant explosive device, cradling the body of a child. He moved to relative safety behind one of the shacks and knelt down, holding an ear to the child's face. She was trying to speak.
One of the armored riders in the town square raised a heavy machine gun in one hand and raked the length of Eaton with golden tracers. The Ghost lost visibility on the townspeople as the hail of machinegun fire filled its vantage point with a rolling cloud of dirt and dust.
The annihilating, sense-shattering explosions came soon after, and the Ghost increased its elevation.
It waited until long after the battle had died out, and the surviving Risen had all left, before lowering itself back to earth. It wasn't even sure which side had won. It didn't matter.
The day had turned to dusk.
Later, in another life his name was Wu Ming
Wu Ming told him a story about a long-forgotten town far away called Eaton, early in the age of Iron Lords. A Lord called Dryden had brought food for the town's starving people, but in return, asked to use them as bait to bring a local Warlord into position for an ambush. This, Wu had learned, went against the code set out by Lord Radegast, the founder of the order. Dryden had broken the rule of involving Lightless individuals in Iron Lord business, because it was those people the Lords had unified to protect. The town had agreed, of course. What choice did it have? But the ambush had gone horribly wrong. The Warlord target had brought a whole fireteam to the fight. Eaton's erasure was utter and complete. Though Wu later learned that Dryden won the battle, he lost every Lord under his command, Ghosts and all, and he committed the additional sin of inflicting final deaths on the Warlords he defeated, in an act of bloodlust and rage. In the intervening years, Wu had learned that Dryden kept this under wraps, and that he and his Ghost were now among the most decorated of Lords, next to the likes of rising champions like Lord Saladin and Lady Efrideet themselves.
Felwinter sat frozen in his chair. It was difficult to tell if he had registered any of what Wu Ming had said.
"How do I know you're not lying?" the hollow voice asked finally.
"I have live recordings," Wu replied. His Ghost transmitted a data stream to Felwinter's Ghost, who nodded.
"Eaton. Who were those people to you?"
"Nothing. Just ghosts."
"You want revenge for people you care nothing about?"
"Is the Darkhorse of Iron for hire?"
Felwinter stood, and politely motioned for Wu Ming to take his leave.
Wu sighed, shrugged, and left the chamber. He had a long climb ahead of him.
The Exo parted his coat and drew a long, bronze shotgun from his side.
"What do you think?" his Ghost asked.
“Call Lord Dryden. Prepare my Iron Banner arsenal."
Oh Drifter, drifting like a ghost through the centuries. Even he has a tragedy behind him.
Top Comment: Well, at least we know where Felwinter’s Lie came from.
MY Iron Age Town - what would you change ? : forgeofempires
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Early game farming in Dock Town
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Does anyone else farm in that vase room in Dock Town? I don’t even know if the stuff is worth farming for but I love seeing the constant drops when I smash all the vases in there so I keep going back lol
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I don't think farming is worth it in general.
I just finished the game and did every sidequest available to me + some exploring the maps (but I dind't get all chests in any of the regions) and I had more than enough gold to buy everything I wanted at the end (+ by doing all sidequests you level the stores to lvl. 4 anyways, even without selling them your valuables).
And since there is no endgame, all the gold you end up with is basically worthless.
Can they fix this dock town locked chest?
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I missed a chest during a quest and now it’s completely inaccessible cause of these 3 people standing in the path. It’s the very last chest I’m missing :(
Top Comment: Same, except I'm pretty sure I never had the chance to get it until after but after those stupid shits are blocking it
Treviso vs Dock town (spoiler)
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So you look any where to see how to get the good ending and it specifically says you have to save minrathose (I know I didn’t spell it right) aka dock town instead of Treviso. I finished the game and I saved dock town because I was a shadow dragon. Now post campaign and I have no idea on why that has that big of an effect on the end of the game. That’s a decision you made in like a third of the game. Obviously everything that happened to Treviso would happen to docktown. What are the big ramifications that are the immediate cause that locks out the good ending? Is dock town worse since you didn’t previously save it?
Top Comment: You definitely don't need to save Minthrathous. I saved Traviso in my first playthrough and I got the good ending. You just need to make sure you get all the faction strengths up and do the companion quests. I had no issues getting everyone high enough and I skipped a couple side quests and missed some things by doing the city choice too early. I'm not sure why people have said you need to save Minrathous.
CHEST HELP, Dock Town sewer entrance (snake door in ...
Main Post: CHEST HELP, Dock Town sewer entrance (snake door in ...