How do you kill men at arms as thats the new Rush it seems

[SeverdNerv]

china has nothing to counter these men at arms as thiers are absolute crap.

anyone know whats best to stop men at arms?

[Thunder]

crossbows

[SeverdNerv]

Originally posted by lynpinette:

crossbows

kl ill do that

[Cacomistle]

If you get to castle, springalds or crossbow. If you're stuck in feudal, towers with handgun slits do really well. If you're stuck in feudal and you don't have a bit of extra stone left over when the attack hits, build towers, hotkey them, and tell them to focus the maa instead of the battering ram. And lastly get textiles, lets you far more easily go after rams with vilagers.

I feel like maa pushes are actually easier to beat than archer ones for the simple fact that they actually have to push in, which makes towers work. Archers just sit out of range of the towers.

Chinese maa are also better than other civs. Theirs move faster. Delhi will beat them in straight up fights before imp, and they'll straight lose to HRE on anything but speed, but their maa will beat anyone elses. But I wouldn't try to compete with a civ like mongols on 1 tc maa because they'll just outproduce you.

[Eric]

try archer above wall, they are far stronger, build stone wall fast, dunno why people don't use this strategy, it's very powerfull

[Ostkaka]

Build towers and make units of your own. Towers with handcannon slits are strong.

[VoiD]

Crossbows yeah, also work really well against heavy horsemen.
Also, wouldn't heavy horsemen beat an equal-investment MAA army?

[Thunder]

Originally posted by VoiD:

Crossbows yeah, also work really well against heavy horsemen.
Also, wouldn't heavy horsemen beat an equal-investment MAA army?

HRE MAA with the 2 hand upgrades do well against heavy horseman.