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(This is obviously a joke {in somewhat poor taste}, I feel like some of the tagless new players on GvE dont know what every race actually does)

I'm starting a very informative 6 part guide on the races intended to be hyper-informative to new players about the playstyles of each race without being overbearing by having walls of text.

The format will be an image followed by sick protips widely agreed upon to be true by 110% of the VU community

I will start with Dwarf:



*Never train a hammerthrower, every era goes super late and Axemen are totally sick units that match up well against armies with AOTD access
*Don't stop farming, you have potential to outfarm every race and therefore are obligated to do so every era
*Your cheap military sciences exist so you can get military 15 shortly after mining 12 at around day 90 of the era
*The Guard tower is not a mine
*Every troop you build could have been a mine
*Your kingdom (Halflings and Orcs especially) exist to serve as a buffer/meatwall for you so you can carry them in the lategame. Watch them die for you, build 10k mine to honor every dead Orc and make sure to time your attack well after Berserker stacks, AM armies, and Nazgul stacks come online.
*Never perform a land drop. It makes sense to build a 5000 gold mine. It's a mine- it prints money!
*You only need to log in every 10 days

To be continued after the holidays.

Let me know what you guys think so far! What races would you like to see explained next?

There are a handful of people reading for serious advice so let me clarify a couple things about Elf and Dwarf before I teach all you fucking noobies out there how to play Troll, a questionable race that I have very limited experience with despite playing VU for so many years, at the Grandmaster Global Elite 420noscope level:

1. As an Elf you lack an economic advantage but you can leverage your magic science openings by doing STG, which requires a minimal investment of magic4, a few thousand warehouses, and 3k-4k~ MUs. This gets you ahead, makes your land-drops better, and makes you less of a useless piece of shit burden to your KD who is farming for a lategame that may never come because at LEAST you are buying your KD's stone and resources from the market.

2. Dwarves should usually always shoot for mining 8-11, generally around 9. If you buy mining 11+ it will only be worth it if the era drags on for a long time or you have a specific plan, and if you don't know the standard science levels for the races than you probably lack either.

3. Dwarf late-midgame timings with hammerthrowers are still very strong if you come in at a time when Halflings who lack exp'd advents are dropping off.

4. There are Elf builds you can do that start being effective before you get magic 9, like magic 8 builds that still make AM into high value units.

5. VU is a game of timings, and in any game where timings are important 'all-ins' where you make yourself as strong as you can at a given time by putting everything into it are extremely effective.

Teaser image for the next update that is coming after the holidays: Part 3, Troll:

Orc curious what you have to say about them

halfling please thanks 

Actually Barney I haven't played Humans is ERA'S lol I mean a VERY long time. I would love to see what you have on them :p

Human players seem to never actually realize this despite the fact that they see players like Binh mysteriously razing their own cities all the time on Human before building 200ks:

Here's some logic for you:

If you have 66k total land as a Human each building costs about 485~ gold. That means if you have 66k total land in a future 200k you can build 133k land (keep in mind you can only build twice the current land+100 in a city at a time which is why you build them up 1/3 of the way to land-drop) which means you can spend 65~ million gold to build up the 200k to max.

Most Humans tend to have a handful or random worthless cities that they refuse to raze, so they decide it's a smart idea to to have 40k land in non-200k cities and 100k land built in their 200k. When you do this, and people do this ALL THE TIME, you spend like 1040~ gold a land at 140k total land to build up 100k land in the 200k so you spend MUCH MUCH more to build the 200k.

The biggest strength of Human is their tax gold/peasant growth bonuses which can only be exploited using 200ks, as well as their huge ability to land-drop and build a bunch of land for very little cost all at once.

CLICK THIS LINK TO LEARN A BIT ABOUT TREASURE.

people want more pictures!

Friendly Reminder that every single high level mechanic in VU actually makes Halfling a stronger race than it already is but people don't know how to do even some basic high level tricks like peasant management.