How to beat
Macedonianas Golden Horde
Matchup tips
But Riddari, you only unlock them in Castle Age. And fast castle age is something that the Golden Horde do know how to pressure. They are very strong at applying pressure very early on against their opponents.
The thing is once the Macedonians do actually get their way up to castle age, they do have the ability to age up with one of the strongest defensive landmarks in the game with the Golden Horn Tower. Having that obelis placement on it. It just means that if your opponent is still in feudal age, he cannot pressure you anymore. It's a no entry rule. Anything around that Golden Horn Tower, if you get a good position on it, is pretty much unraidable.
In feudal they're both strong, but Golden Horde just wins out in a long feudal. Just a better army. Torguud, the buffs from the Khan, it's just better. Even with the silver upgrades from Macedonia, Golden Horde is going to be fine.
The timing of Riddari can make it very difficult for Golden Horde to survive in early Castle Age because of their slow age up.
Once those Stockyards are up and running and you have the composition going with crossbows, Keshik, Men-at-Arms and such, I think that kind of a mass can be really difficult for Macedonian to deal with, especially combined with the massive income that's fueling it.
Riddari have plus two pierce armor, so archers don't do much damage against them. Crossbows are the answer.
I really like going for the horse archers. If you can get to castle age without taking damage, then you can just sort of kite these Varangian guards. It works really well.
The men-at-arms against Riddari, not exactly the unit you want
The archers for Macedonians, they are quite unique in the way that they have an activatable ability which ignores two of the armor, but Torguud with the Muscovy Yasak have an additional two ranged armor on them. So it kind of completely makes up for that.
Macedonian Unique Units
Macedonian Landmarks
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