How to beat
Ayyubidas Rus
Matchup tips
You're playing against Ayyubids that have the ability to fast castle. And that second TC is very far out; it's going to take a while to pay off. And you don't really have anything that can handle his units in early castle.
With the camels on the way, he has to invest in the barracks. That's the great thing about having these dervishes in already. Essentially, these two desert raiders, you consider them as more than just two. Every time he loses almost one and then heals it all the way back up again, that's like having a fresh brand new Desert Raider. You could calculate value that way and say that's x amount of resources you're gaining by healing them with these dervishes.
I would expect a seasoned player would not go for the eco- wing here. It's probably going to be the dervish wing. You want to get your dervishes out in feudal. With that, you're putting yourself so much further ahead in terms of being able to respond to any feudal aggression, being able to do a little bit of feudal aggression yourself, but you're up against Rus. And Rus does have that ability to just kind of stay under their TC and go fast castle.
In this matchup you cannot just spam Cav archers. It just doesn't work. The debuff is too great and you just end up not being able to do any damage to armored units with these cavalry archers.
Cav archers typically great, great, great unit. Not in this match-up. Not in this match-up. Now that 20% camel unease debuffing all other horse units doesn't feel good.
There is a barracks coming in for Rus, but barracks up against desert raiders whenever they switch over to the ranged mode, the spearmen just kind of look at it and go, 'Well, my spear's too short. I can't reach.' The ranged damage isn't that much, but they can just kite for days and you don't have healing as Rus.
Only eight damage – with that type of math even Desert Raiders can actually have a good exchange with Horse Archers at range, which is pretty depressing.
But we have seen Ayyubids do really, really well against them with a very specific build, notably going for that military wing reinforcement in the castle age and just straight up playing desert raiders against horse archers and winning outright because of that.
Against Ayyubid's Master Smiths, you need to get your blacksmith upgrades or you will lose the fight.
The golden age gives Ayyubid 10% gather rate, so you're mirroring the bounty value of Rus on the gathering rate.
Desert raiders trade a lot better against Rus horse archers.
Ayyubid Unique Units
Ayyubid Landmarks
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