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Hello everybody, and welcome to Hazinq Channel
Today, in this show, we are going to talk about the Sioux
It is a 'The War Chief' civilization, so an Amerindian one
And its main strength is its calvalry
And today we are going to see a strategy that I call the 'Mega Raid Sioux'
But you can call it how you want
The goal is to send 4 Axe Riders from your deck
and to product Bow Riders which is the best Sioux unit
I am going to show you a game that I played in 2011 when my level was the best
Against WAITandBLEED which was PR31 when this game has been played
To those who would be confused, I have 2 accounts in AOE3, michaelsachier and Ourzk
So we are going to start the record as we waste enough time talking
So basically, when you are Age 1, you send 2 vils on the herd, well it is better to send 3 so you can kill the bison in 1 shot
Do you see what I am doing? I shot the bison then I order my vils to walk toward it just after the shot
Why do I do that? In fact, when you vils shot, then they have to reload so they do not walk and waste their time
And their time is yours, and you waste some food and precious time
Also, don't forget to always teleport your vils through your Town Center so they don't have to walk around it and waste their time
The start is basic, as always, all vils on the food and you creep with your explorer
Here, creeping is very important as you will have to get enough XP to send 4 Axe Riders from your deck immediately after you aged up
Here, I start to herd, it is not a big deal in this strategy as you should get the map control early in the game
So here I see that he is going to take a treasure so I am going to steal it
and that is what I am doing
So I get 70 coins, it is not a lot, but it is still helpful and I prevent him to get this advantage
It will give me a little advantage when I will be Age 2 and will want to produce Bow Riders
Here, I see he didn't take the treasure near his Town Center, so I am going to take it too.
So when you will age up, during the transition, the objective is to get 200w before you reach Age 2
So you will be able to build you stable as soon as possible and start producing units to raid him earlier
Then, once you get your first units, you have to raid him immediately. Never let your army immobile. Harass him or collect some treasures.
I am going to click on play fast because this is not very interesting
During the First Age, it is always the same thing
Ok, so here I aged up.
I just aged up with The Messenger, so the Fast Aging
You also can Age up with the 500 food to help you get more BR's in the early game
Here you see that I am collecting my starting wood crate
I did not collect it before to focus my vils on the food so I could aged up a bit faster
So now, I need to collect it to get the 200 wood to build the stable as soon as I get to the 2nd Age
My mistake in this game was that I did not find some wood treasures and this is bad news
So here it is, Age 2, I'm sending the 4 Axe Riders
I am building the stable with several vilagers to make it fast
And I'm trying to get this treasure
He got it. This is bad news for me as he got the extra 210 XP so he will be able to send more shipments
Besides, I don't think that I'll can kill him
There, my first 4 Axe Rides are going to come out very soon
I can send them to kill his explorer and get some XP or I can send them towards his TC to harass him earlier
Ok, so I was saying, Age 1 : look for good wood treasures to get the 200w faster
Because here, you see that I only can produce 3 BRs
We can see that he already have his rax at his home so he won't be very agressive
And he also has some Skull Knight, so this is not good for me as they are very effective
Moreover, I have no food, look on the mini-map, there's nothing
Fortunately, I went for a very agressive strategy so I get the map control and so, more food
Here, we still not are at 6min of game and I've already a small army
I played all for the calvalry as I send again 3 Axe Riders
Unfortunately, I can't really mass the BRs because of a lack of food
I also lost so many time to gather the food so far from my TC
So here we go... and you also can see that... sorry I am going to show you
I took 2 Outlaw Riders from the treasures not to slow down my army during the raids
And this is it, just make some 2-way trip towards his TC to harass him and keep the pressure
We see that he has 10 macehualtins, skull knights and some jaguar prowl knights
Here, I don't know what I'm doing, I should have check the fight
I don't know why I did not go back before as I lost so many units out there... But I was looking at my vils...
That's why you should always keep an eye on the fight and favor the micro instead of the macro
It won't make you lose the game
In the early game, yes, macro is very important and each second is important but after... not that much
Here, I go directly to his fire pit because I know there's always someone dancing to kill out there
I got my 6 Aenna Archers while I keep producing BRs even if I can't get 5 of them yet
In fact, I should have put more vils on the gold because I have 500f
This is a macro mistake from me
I don't even know if I won this game in fact, I don't remember
Here you can see that I send my Aennas first as they have a larger vision