As always, the Flusher will keep up 100% Vil production. Also, the Flusher researches Double-Bit Axe immediately (more wood), and gets two Spears out of the Rax that was built during the transition to Feudal. There are also Stable and Range Flushes, and that will be covered later. However, now, it is common to see the Flusher make two Ranges immediately upon entering Feudal. Previously, the first Flush only used one Range. Massed Skirmishers (at least fifteen), a few Spears, and a couple of Scouts can give enemy Vils headaches. With the changes of the 1.0c patch, namely, +2 attack for Scouts in Feudal, Many Flushers also use Scouts as well, which only cost 80 food.

Instead of just Archers and Towers now, the Flush has turned its army into mainly Spears and Skirmishers, two good units that cost NO gold or stone. Without mining gold or stone, the Flusher maximizes on food and wood. Gold is also slow to mine there are not many Flush types that mine gold at the start of Feudal.

Your Vils could be better put elsewhere (especially the forward Vils), on food or wood. Towers are slow to build, and stone is slow to mine. He used a strategy in which he would choose Chinese (this was back in AoK, where the Chinese were the most unbalanced civ and quite possibly the “best”), get a 12:xx minute Feudal time (with 26 Vils, which is actually slow when you compare it to the Flush nowadays), and start attacking the other player with a few Archers, while building offensive Towers overlooking that player’s resources. Where Did it Originate?Īlthough you could credit many people for inventing it, and changing it over the years, the first real strategy article on the Flush was made by gutter_rat, who then posted it at MFO. There is only one real counter to a Flush: you must Flush the other person.

Why? With Spears and Skirms going down your throat and disrupting your economy and killing Vils every now and then, you’re going to be behind economically. Everywhere you go in Zone Rated RM, you’ll see a Flush, be it a Hun Flush or not (the Huns are the most popular civ to Flush with). Nowadays, the “Flush” isn’t just a “Feudal Rush,” it’s the strategy that defines how the game is now played.

The term, “Flush” stood for “Feudal Rush” when it was invented a long time ago (possibly about five to six years back), back in the days of AoK. It appears that there are many people that lack the knowledge of what a Flush is, what a Flush does, and even more, why a Flush wins games. Tags: Flush Strategies, Random Map Strategy, Strategy Article

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