AGE OF EMPIRES IV
CIVILISATION MATCHUPS
YOUR CIV
OPPONENT
RusRus
Rus wins through early cavalry aggression fueled by a hunting-based economy that generates gold from wildlife and accelerates with each kill, enabling constant Wooden Fortress expansion and early Knight access while Warrior Monks scale their cavalry for mid-game dominance.
Matchup advice11 TIPS

Tower of Victory gives increased attack speed on infantry. It mostly matters in feudal engagements. Later, against mobile units like cavalry archers, it's tough. Against Rus, which does a lot of kiting with cavalry archers, you probably can't get full use of Tower of Victory, and it doesn't play as much into Delhi's strengths as the other landmark.

The thing about Rus is every single one of those deer is a little bit of that gold trickle, a little bit more of that bounty. They've got the High Trade House as well, just so many extra passive gold generations. So it'll be a while for them to go out to the gold, but maybe Delhi can force them onto it. Delhi will force them out with triple sacred sites and securing a win condition.

Ghazi Raiders do 12 damage per hit compared to 9 from regular Horsemen, so they kill Scouts much faster, making them excellent at hunting down Scouts.

Ghazi Raiders in Feudal have the mobility and bonus damage to take down Horse Archers.

Rus gets Professional Scouts faster against Delhi because Delhi has to wait for Dome of the Faith and pump out Scholars, while Rus can research it in normal time and produce Scouts from the Hunting Cabin.

Unique Units
UNITDESCRIPTION
Warrior MonkReligious cavalry buffing nearby units when attacking
Horse ArcherMobile ranged cavalry unit available in castle age
StreltsyGunpowder ranged infantry with high melee damage
LodyaVersatile naval ship convertible to any ship type
MilitiaLight melee emergency infantry from kremlin
Landmarks
Kremlin
Acts as improved Wooden Fortress. Produces Supply Points for deploying Militia.
The Golden Gate
Produces Supply Points that can be used to trade resources at fixed rates.

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