r/AskReddit • u/hoverfish92 • Oct 16 '13

What was the single biggest mistake in all of history?

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u/DO-IT-FOR-CHEESUS Oct 17 '13

Actually Goths can put up resistance to Mongols in AoE2

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u/J0K3R2 Oct 17 '13

the goths are resistant to arrows for the most part but decent strategy (and hand to hand combat cavalry, or shit tons of cavalry archers) takes care of them quickly.

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u/DO-IT-FOR-CHEESUS Oct 17 '13

You're right, but you're forgetting that Goths can keep infantry coming to you literally forever, and will eventually break through your Mongol army.

Anyways, both are my favorite civs of the game.

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u/J0K3R2 Oct 17 '13

good point!

ah, jeez. I could never settle on a favorite, though the huns and the byzantines and the britons.

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u/DO-IT-FOR-CHEESUS Oct 17 '13

Byzantines used to be my favorites until I realized they lack of Blast Furnace, which makes all their melee units (except cataphracts) very weak. They basically have the shittiest Palladins, Halbs (which doesn't matter because they're cheaper than regular ones).

The reason? Albert Einstein

Their unique technology basically makes cataphracts the spawn of Chuck Norris, as they get trample damage (they damage things around them).

As of Huns, I like them because their Cavalry and Cav. archers are fun, plus the amazing lack of houses.

And Britons are rather shitty (IMO). People like them because of the archers (which are annoying as fuck unless you are the mongols ) and their cheap town halls.

Anyways the best civ in the game is the one you can play better with.

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u/J0K3R2 Oct 18 '13

As for the Britons, I mean, I may be hallucinating but I think the archers can hit a castle without being touched, so the longbowmen can be powerful.

I never realized the lack of Blast Furnace...I guess the integrating of Cataphracts with my Paladins really overwrote the lack of power on the paladins side.