How to beat
Holy Roman Empireas House of Lancaster
Matchup tips
If you go for the standard all lord play, you already have a military unit on the field. Whereas with HRE you're the one who needs to react to this. You're not the civilization that can just sit back and be like, 'Hey, I see your lord. I'm just not going to respond to it.' He needs to invest on land. And that gives you an advantage when it comes to getting that water lead a little bit earlier on.
Yeoman archers are baseline a little bit faster, but still not as fast as HRE archers; however, they have one more tile of range.
Meinwerk Palace provides cheaper, faster technologies, so horsemen and spearmen will deal a lot more damage, which is very beneficial against any potential feudal age all-ins from House of Lancaster.
With Burgrave Palace, HRE men-at-arms do 50% bonus damage on their charge. Even with crossbows as a counter, you need a good amount of them, especially since the HRE men-at-arms are also faster.
And here again, having one prelate is basically enough to let your two spears double their strength essentially.
The weird thing with these type of civs where they have a military landmark essentially — they don't need to invest wood. They get their harassers free. So I think opening of feudal should favor House of Lancaster.
It makes perfect sense to target that dock, try to get it torched down ASAP and potentially get a good timing on the gold and either delay or even prevent that age up entirely. Extra value against the HRE for that because of course you do start with a hundred less gold.
Three is the magic number to out damage the healing of the prelate so you can't stay here forever.
Mustering Lords of Lancaster forward gives you extra entities to chase prelates and deny relics.
You can't just sit back and do nothing against Palace of Swabia's scaling.
You need to attack HRE when they are reaching Imperial, while you are still in Castle Age.
Once you get Collar of Essence in, even the Demilancers will do significant damage up against the knights from the HRE.
Holy Roman Empire Unique Units
Holy Roman Empire Landmarks
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