This post will be hopelessly geeky. My apologies in advance.<\/p>\n
Digging through AOE3 Heaven<\/a>‘s webpage today I discovered an intriguing strategy for Age of Empires III<\/i>—the Galley sling<\/a>. No, I have no idea what the term “Galley sling” means, because it uses neither galleys nor slings because I didn’t invent it.<\/p>\n I did, however, try it. And it’s impressive.<\/p>\n The idea is this–put all<\/i> of your economy on harvesting resources, advance an age within roughly five minutes, and using the free galleon card in the Home City deck send a galleon to your colony. Then, send the galleon to the enemy’s coast, have it build Grenadiers, and then take out the enemy’s town center by approximately the eight-minute mark.<\/p>\n Son of a bitch, it works.<\/p>\n I tried this strategy in two games this evening. Both cases the enemy leaders resigned by the fifteen minute mark.<\/p>\n Wow. It’s an AoE<\/i>-on-crack strategy. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post will be hopelessly geeky. My apologies in advance. Digging through AOE3 Heaven‘s webpage today I discovered an intriguing strategy for Age of Empires III—the Galley sling. No, I have no idea what the term “Galley sling” means, because it uses neither galleys nor slings because I didn’t invent it. I did, however, tryContinue reading “On the Galley sling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-age-of-empires-iii","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}