My round #2 match against @kodieamos in the AoE-steemleague 🎮

Introduction

After winning the semifinals against @bigmeat, I had to face @kodieamos for the title of the @steemleague #2 - The Goths!

I beat him 2-0 in the last round, so I was quite confident. But it should get way closer this time...

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Game 1 - Arabia

In the first game I started by setting up a nice economy, before starting to pump Militia out of two barracks.

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Meanwhile I was scouting a lot - the huge points difference probably comes from me using sheep to scout as well and @kodieamos not doing so...

The second I reached Feudal Age I developed my Militia into Man-at-Arms and started to raid his economy.

I didn't kill much - however my harassment was enough, that I could reach the Castle Age first. And then I did, what I do best - drop a forward castle!

Even though he tried everything to stop it, it went up. And with the castle, he felt like he had no chance anymore and resigned.

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Game 2 - Continental

In the second round we played on the map Continental - two islands connected by a small land bridge. Of course a dock was mandatory here to get extra free food from fish. At first I was a little shocked, since I docked in a little pond. However I was lucky - the shups could go over the little land part and reach the big ocean with all the good deepwater fish (which actually collects faster then shorefish).

With that extra food I could go up to Feudal Age pretty soon. And that meant that I was able to tower my wall at the land brigde.

After securing the land connection, I wanted to land @kodieamos again. But unluckily for me, he learned from last weeks mistakes and discovered my "secret" landing - and killed it :(

So my plan changed to dropping castles again. However he knew that already and destroyed two of the shortly after they were built.

Since they were my last defences, I had to resign to the army of Huskarl's he made. A few archers had no chance against them.

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Game 3 - Highland

So for the first time in this series, I had to go into a game three. But I knew what I had to do - be more aggressive again. Giving @kodieamos the time to build an army was for sure a huge mistake in game 2.

If you remember Highland from the last match reports, you know its a land divided by a river with a small walkthrough area. But unlike the other games I didn't go for a defensive wall - No, I went offensive and sneaked a villager on his side this time!

And then I played really offensive. At first I Tower-rushed with my sneaked villagers.

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Than I attacked with Crossbowman

and finished it with an offensive castle once again!

Thx @kodieamos for the great games, it was a pleasure! And way closer than last time!

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Hope you enjoyed this little report! If you did, stay tuned for the next round.