There are some rushes that are 'all in' as would be classified by sc2/bw, but most aren't and are standard ways to play and if it fails doesn't put you in a bad position. Doesn't work that way at all, forward rax is 100% standard as well especially in team games when everyone puts military buildings together.

Yeah in aoe when you rush (will most rushes) they aren't like sc2 or bw where if it fails you are behind. Rushing is different, almost essential in most games.

They're focusing on 'How do I win?' and completely forgetting 'Why did I challenge this guy, again?' I think people are missing the idea of this thread here. But are you really going to change this dude's mind on SC2 by rushing him? Wouldn't you have to conclusively beat him in a macro game in order to prove your point? Is your goal to win at all costs? Then these rush tactics are good. He'll likely have an advantage if he's good and doesn't lose settlers and continues to macro and just defend with his TC and unit cards but you might scare him into surrendering. Build more strelets and musketeers (you'll need food and either wood or gold depending on which you want). Rally all military units to come from it. MY FIX If you have at one point had AOE3 regular game non steam game on your computer and deleted it there will still be files in DOCUMENTS, MY GAMES, AOE3. You build a blockhouse as soon as possible, and as close as possible to his base(AoE2 had some tower rushes that were really annoying so build restrictions were added in AoE 3). Forwarded ports and all still got the Failed to join message.

You get some low level rush cards ( since you're such a low level city I don't even know if you'll have these without playing 2-5 games online). The only time I beat someone significantly better was when I did a proxy Russian strelet rush. I only got to the 1st lieutenant rank on Vanilla so like platish? in SC2. Regardless of which game is better you won't beat someone with experience at one game if you have none.

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