LogFAQs > #953906517

On realizing that the Goths have a hunting bonus in Age of Empires 2, I got a little more excited to play as them since that reminded me of the Mongols. Actually the Goths seem somewhat similar, having a strong Dark Age economic bonus towards hunting (the Mongol hunters work faster while Goth hunters can carry more food and get an attack bonus against aggressive animals that can be hunted for food like boars and rhinos) before kicking into high gear in the Castle Age while their options in the Imperial Age become limited but still powerful. Just the Goths are more of a foot soldier civ and they rely more on raw numbers over the Mongols' faster-firing cavalry archers and more HP on their light cavalry and steppe lancers, which is the part which worries me.

I watch this YouTuber named Hera, who's one of the best AoE2 players, show off how to use the various civilizations in the game through multiplayer matches, with some of those videos even providing an overview of the civ and the best way to use them. In his video on the Goths, the opposing player surrendered the minute Hera got a castle up. The Goths are vulnerable until that point because they don't even get Stone Walls (presumably they're just supposed to spam cheap infantry for defense?) or any Tower upgrades, but once they get there they get so much good stuff. In high-level play, you basically have to eradicate the Goths early on or they'll spam cheap infantry to level your bases - their barracks work faster, their infantry get progressively cheaper through the ages, and their infantry also get an attack bonus against buildings! Sounds like one heck of a barbarian tribe. In real life the Spanish and Portuguese are in part descended from the Goths.

Just to ask Exdeath, what was your favorite civ to use in Civ5?

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