Fundamentals and replay analysis

Hello!

I continue to work on my M@A into archers with Vikings. However, I think I am making various fundamental mistakes and would like to see if you agree with my assessment or if there is something else you think I should focus on.

I have a couple recordings that can illustrate this.

Dark age:
I continue to clean up the opening as I often get suboptimal boar position under the TC. However, I think my main mistake is bad scouting of the enemy.

Feudal age:
I get my M@A to the enemy at about 11.30. However, if I see he is walled I try to cancel the upgrade and try to get double bit axe instead. I then try to get 2 archery ranges and black smith down as soon as I can to mass archers to attack. I often do not know how to best use these archers.

However, I think my main issue to focus on is incorrect econ distribution and getting housed

Castle age:
I am trying to get earlier ballistics as you recommended on another thread. I think this has helped me win some fights. However, I am still not sure how to best use my army and often lose much of it on failed raids/attacks on enemy econ.

Generally, speaking, I think my main mistake here is still correct econ distribution and secondary to this is map control.

Imperial age:
I have an ok early Imperial age. However, I often lose when gold starts to run out and I have not yet added the supporting trash units to my main gold Arbalest army. This when I have the advantage. If I am at a disadvantage I usually am unable to recover and lose in imperial age.

Replay where I lose:
www.dropbox.com/s/7ii2ypaelugb7iv/vs%20m...game.aoe2record?dl=0

I have a good advantage in castle age. In imperial I respond badly to an Eagle Warrior raid. Also I stopped continuous Vil production, was late adding production buildings, never added fourth TC. Opponent won with better mechanics and bigger eco.

Replay where I win:
www.dropbox.com/s/7ii2ypaelugb7iv/vs%20m...game.aoe2record?dl=0

Seemed like I had better mechanics than the opponent. Opponent also seemed to blunder with a knight switch from Skirmishers. Won due to better production, and winning a couple key fights to take map control

Im not an admin of this site , i am a player just like you and i have a few comments. My elo is slightly lesser(1272) than yours but i was practising the m@a archer build for a long time and struggling managing resources , i practised this build a lot with the AI to effectively learn to manage.
I can give a few pointers.
1) I think you put 3 on gold in dark age which is a lot. 2 is sufficient for man at arms upgrade and the militia.
2) you put 3 on berries, your food count was less.
when i go up to feudal i usually have around 240 food and 200 wood in the bank ... so i do m@a upgrade (100f) and create villager (50f) still have 90f in bank but i dont to double bit axe yet ... delay it a few seconds (its super imp but dont delay it too much but not as imp as vill prod.) bcoz villager production has to be maintained.
we need 6 on food for constatnt vill prod and i have 4 on berries and my sheeps are over. the ppl under Tc are onto straggler trees. If u have 2 (max 3) more farms then its fine initially ... you dont want to over extend on the farming initially otherwise your archery range will be delayed.

3) when going up i collect food with vills under tc then at 40% send 3 vills to make second lumber camp .. that way i would have enough food in the bank and good wood. If u have low food when u click up you will endup making more farms and that delays archery ranges ....
So i make 1 builder make archer range then another then blacksmith ... goes very smooth.
your end goal is to make 5 vills on each lumber camp and few on stragglers @ fefudal.
I have another builder make walls (aka palisades and houses <-- you got housed ) max 2 builders.

Those are good observations Shehbazthakur.

I think a week or so ago I started building my 3rd house with the 16th villager who usually would go to berries to complete the four vils there.

I have lately forgotten to add the 4th vil to berries and also retask the building vil.

No wonder I feel so food starved early feudal and cant get my M@A upgrade as easily as before

Also, I was feeling low on wood early feudal hence why I delayed my second lumber camp. It makes sense I was feeling low as given my low food prod I was feeling forced to get farms earlier.

The three vils on gold was either momentary or a multitasking failure.

I will try your recommendations on my next set of games.

Hi Jupe,

Yes, it would be great if you have some feedback.

I will continue to clean up my opening, however, I think there may be more fundamental issues to look into. I was wondering, given your experience, what your assessment of the main issues I had on each age were.

Maybe they are different to the ones I have outlined.