Everyone knows Germany is OP and everyone knows that WWs and FF are super lame.
This strat still includes WWs but I hope someone will try it anyways.
It isn't a new strategy at all but I thought I could write it down since there arent many German strats around atm.
You can't really make a specific BO but i will try.
The BO so far:
Needed cards:
Age1: 2 SW
Age2: 3 SW
Age3: 100 gold
age4:
Recommended cards: (really important if you want this to work)
Age1:
Age2: Palatine (sp?) settlements
Age3: 1000 food, maybe fort
Age4: 12 polish winged hussars, 2 factories, 2 heavy canons, 13 uhlans, 4 WWs, !! highland merc army!!
Politicans and HC levels needed:
Your HC has to be level 25 at least to get the merc army and paletine.
About the politicans I'm not sure which level is required but politicans that are extremely useful are: 400 wood politican (age2), 1000 gold politican (age3).
Now the BO:
NOTE: if you are on a map without TPs I wouldnt really use this strat. Only do it if you can get 2-3 TPs and if you arent up vs an agressive civ like Spain.
Good Civs to use this against are defensive civs like Dutch, Ports and French.
Also dont use this strat vs a rush.
Age1:
Same as for a standard German FF. All vills on food,build a house then ship 2 SW,age up when you have 17 vills (pop, 7 vills+ 5 SW).
While aging (with the 400 wood politican) send your vills to gather 350 wood (exactly 350 wood!).
Then make your explorer build a TP.
After you got 350 wood divide your vills on gold/food.
Age2:
Collect the 400 aging wood and train 1 vill. Send 3 SW ASAP.
Build 2 more TPs with the 400 wood+ 100 left wood.
Collect enough resources for fortress and age with the 6 skirm politican.
While aging the things you do depend on the situation.
In any case send palatine for free pop space.
If you exspect a strong fortress attack you should build a stable and spam WWs when you hit fortress.
Make like ~10 WWs while sending 1000 wood/gold and age up to indu then.
In case you know that you wont be attacked hard in fortress and you are on texas which is an excellent map for this you simply gather 200 gold then switch all vills to food.
Age3:
As I said all depends on the situation, if you are up vs a port who has colonial militia and a fort and who tries to turtle send 1000 food/gold ASAP to age up to indu.
Otherwise delay your indu time a little and make some WWs as a defense.
It could be useful to make a fort but thats not that important.
Its not your key to have a very fast fi but a very strong one.
While you are in fortress make vills constantly until you hjave enough res to age up.
Age with the 1000 gold poltican.
While aging send all vills to gold and gather 1000 gold then divide them on gold/food to make some WWs.
(in case you dont have a stable yet, make one ASAP)
Dont make too many WWs and keep a total of 1000 gold constantly.
Age4:
When you hit age4 collect the 1000 aging gold ASAP and ship highland merc army.
Then simply mass WWs and upgrade them if you can afford it.
After that ship 2 HC and attack with a total of ~10 WWs+ highland merc army+ 2 HC+ ~10 uhlans+ 6 skirms (if your aging skirms survived)
From there on its up to you... you can send factories, 12 skirms, 13 uhlans, 12 winged hussars etc.
I admit that this strat is really lame but nevertheless it can be fun and be very succesful.
HC+ WW combo is even more deadly than pure WWs in a FF.
This strat isnt supposed to be alwaysw used because in a ff war ff is sually better.
But somtimes it can hit your opponent unprepared because he exspects the standard German FF.
At any point before you hit the age up to age4 button you can simply FF instead so this strat is very flexible.
A delyaed FI with like 10 WWs and some skirms/uhlans isnt bad aswell because its usually a surpise for your enemies.
They dont exspect a FI because they see the WWs but suddenly u hit indu...
I say again that this is mainly good vs turtle civs and not so good vs agressive civs.
If you try it vs an equally skilled spanish player you would usually lose.
But vs Ports its really good since they dont hacve good sieging units and are more of a boom civ.
They wont attack early and will give you what you need- TIME!
Even vs other civs FI it isnt bad because guard WWs+ HC is a nearly unstopable combination and 12 winged hussars rock too.
If you want to make any comments go ahead but please no flaming or complaining about my grammar. I did my best to write it understandable and hope you can read it.
If you have nothign important to say and jut come here to say '' Germany is OP'' then dont come here and dont say anything.
I admit that Germany is OP but is it forbidden to make strats for them just because of that? I dont think so..
~Thanks in advance~