Extreme AI Dutch

[vitor.hasnoc]

I've been playing the Brits lately and it's a civ I've developed a taste for. I've been playing against the AI and things started getting too easy for me, and then I raised the difficulty from hard to expert and finally to extreme. No need to mention, very hard, but I've managed to defeat the ottoman AI on extreme on a patagonia map. Not a pretty game, I was always on the verge of collapse till I managed to twist things around, I don't even know how to be honest. But anyway, I didn't have the same luck playing against the dutch on new england. I wonder if anyone has ever managed to defeat the extreme dutch AI, and if they did it I'd ask them to share how

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The main strength of the dutch is their economy, try to deny them that strength as much as possible, their weakness is that they take a bit longer to get started, so some early raids are always good.

Always destroy forts as they come online, those cannot be rebuild and they serve as a launching platform for the ai's attacks, i find the ai's attacks increase when they have forts and destroying them gives some breathing room.

If you reach age 4 you have to asses the situation, if you think you can break trough but not defeat him than go for his factories first, they cannot rebuild those, target villagers after that. destroying barracks is nice to stop them from training men while you attack but they can rebuild those easy, villagers take a longer time to replace, and most important in decreases their income.

Losing an attacking army is no problem if you have the resources to rebuild them easy, taking down their economy is always good, even if it costs you your army.

last you mentioned you play the Brits, they have good grenadiers cards, 4 in total, 1 increases attack, 1 defense, 1 does both and 1 gives them grenade launchers, they are weak against cav but they destroy infantry and buildings.

The brits are not really a great rushing civ, sure they can do it but they are better at booming. try to out-preform the dutch economy

[★彡אֵלִיָּה彡★]

I play extreme ai normally with a mate 2v6 extreme, I do it for the sheer fun of smashing together different combos and watching the ai endless spam or units get denied or deny me .... If you want to end an ai extreme game try to hold them without hassle , many culvs and melee, then send in some fast siege units or cheap units to get in their plantations , also a critical part is the deck !!!! What deck u using ?

[★彡אֵלִיָּה彡★]

I also do fast game speed to quickly move the challenges around and if I fail it's not hard to just restart but I rarely do fail

[vitor.hasnoc]

I was playing with a deck where i prioritized military unit bonuses, like the ones that make cav, musks and grenadiers tougher. Maybe that's the issue. I tried a rush build order and managed to easily defeat the dutch. But i noticed it was much harder to use the same strat against the swedes and iroquois, they rush as well and swedes have that Godamn leather cannon early game that can only be defeated by cav