The Koreans

The Koreans


The Koreans are the best civ in the games hands down. Why? Three
reasons, they have the best bombard in the game (tied with the Turks).
They have the best onagers in the game. Lastly, they have the best
ranged unit in the game, the War Wagon. Combining these 3 is an
unbeatable strategy, the only thing one needs to win with when playing
the Koreans is an early rush defense.

Now then, the basic strategy with the Koreans is to build many bombard
towers quickly, approximately 20-25. The back these up with about 20
onagers, 40 halberds, 2 trebs, 2 bombard cannons and about 15 War
Wagons. Nothing in the game will stop this defense, as trebs are
destroyed by the Koreans long-range onagers, rams will get killed by
halberds and onagers, and anything that tries to break through the
defense will get squashed by a combination of bombard, war wagons, and
onagers. All you have to do is place your onagers so they aren't all
together, so a group of paladins won't do a suicide run on them and
slowly push on the enemy until you are at the his base. The game is all
but won.

Now that I've said that, you can actually use any 2 of the 3 Korean
"super units". Onagers with bombard towers, Onagers with War Wagons, or
War Wagons with bombard will all work just fine. The only difficult
part is getting the resources to replace your army, but this is a death
match, so that shouldn't be a problem, especially if you started on
resources early.

If you are facing a Korean, you're best bet is to double team his ally,
so you won't even have to face him for awhile, since he will be
building up that super defense I told you about. Other than that, rush
him as soon as possible, as the defense is impossible to take out once
it has started.