u/blackraindark

I think that it does not make sense that tower upgrades are done from the University.

Towers are the only things that get their gradual upgrades from the university. Rest of the stuff are more like technologies that 'add something' to existing units or buildings.

Barracks, Stables, Seige Workshops all have the upgrades of their units in themselves. Even Docks, where most of the tech went to University, has the medium warship, heavy warship and the demolition ship upgrades in the docks themselves.

Next, towers fail as defensive protections as they are too little too late during castle age rushes.

People who have the habit of using wood as soon as they recieve it often find themselves not having enough wood for university or even enough APM to build it cuz they may be busy quick walling. Then extra time for getting the research itself.

Units like Conqs, strats like Monk Rush, Mangonel Push are very strong and hard to counter in early castle age. Faster Guard Towers would help offset their strength a bit without rendering them completely useless.

Tower Rushes are very powerful even if the trusher loses most of his towers and even if defender reaches castle age first, because the trush gives them map control, opening, and Fast Imp potential.

While the defender is busy cleaning up enemy towers with 3 mangonels, the trusher can either send in a few scouts / knights inside to kill mangonels and vills, or he can simply make an aggressive castle and go Imp.

A quick guard tower offsets the strength of the trush. Or if the defender does not make smart decisions, he gets punished, giving the trusher the advantage.

Then there are those mangonel vs mangonel fights, where you are constantly exchanging mangonels for minutes like a deadlock. Whoever gets more mangonels first, snowballs towards domination. I think with faster guard towers this kind of long slow battles of attrition will progress much faster.

I think currently the towers are either somewhat helpful only in early fuedal age to protect a woodline or mine from rush or in late Imp to discourage enemy raids.

What do y'all think?

Recently I found a few Indo-Chinese places serving spring rolls with Banana Chutney along with the conventional chili garlic hot sauce.

We have been loving that Chutney. It's sweet, cool, tangy creamy which gives a nice contrast to hot, spicy, oily spring rolls.

Anyone know the recipe of that chutney?

It has a texture of thick mayo. My guesses are banana, mayo/cream, pink salt, chaat masala blended together and chilled, but didn't turn out exactly like the shop one.

EDIT: To summarize I shouldn't have done the 4th TC. Should have done 5 range xbow production, gone to Imp to get Arbs and bracer. Those who said mass skirms, I think that's a very bad advice as FI could have resulted in either condos or genbows. If it was condos then skirms would be totally useless.

So I had the Bohemians vs Italian matchup recently on Arena TG 2v2.

I correctly predicted that opponent will Fast Imp, thus after second TC I started massing crossbows. I added first range in fuedal age as second building.

Second and third range after second TC.

I started continuous production of xbow while making vills and soon transitioned to 3rd and 4th TC as well. Got few relics and fervour as well.

I had a large mass of xbows with balistics as he reached fast Imp. Soon my xbow were FU too.

My plan was I will remain in long castle age, having a crazy eco and defending well enough using sheer number, until I go into imp and have houfnice.

He was making Geneose xbow, few which I flattened with mangonel.

But soon I found the hard way that my xbows were no match for his Genbows and BBC. His BBC kept flatenning my xbows despite I trying to split out of shots.

At the end, I lost all my xbows, my base and villagers massacred.

My teammate was also losing.

I was 1400 while opponent was 1550 1v1 elo.

Any advice?

I feel this is much more difficult to deal with compared to turks FI, as there you can do knights. But not against genbows.

Hi! I was prescribed four medicines by my ayurveda doctor for insomnia:

1. Sarasvatarishta

2. Smritisagar Rasa

3. Brahmi Vati

4. Manasamitra Vatakam

First two I got from hospital only. Brahmi Vati I ordered from Jiva.

It says Brahmi PI. (Centella Asiatica) 440 mg in the ingredients.

Is this the correct Brahmi? I checked other brands like Dhootpapeshwar and Baidyanth, and they use Bacopa Monnieri for their Brahmi.

I have been practicing devotedly everyday since a couple months ago.

My progress till now was I could play 20 types of Alankars smoothly with metronome at 60 bpm. And a few songs.

The holding style that I learnt from the tutorial series that I was following was: first 3 holes closed by tips of left fingers with left thumb between 1st and 2nd hole in the area facing me.

4th, 5th, 6th hole covered by middle pads of right fingers with right thumb under the 4th hole.

I realized I was feeling lot of pain in left thumb at higher octaves while playing fast, thus after researching I realized Hariprasad Chaurasia style is better way to hold the bansuri.

I have been trying it since last 4 days, spending hours everyday but no use.

Pa Dha Ni is the main issue. Sound does not come unless I press the fingers very hard to cover the hole. And doing that is causing immense pain to my right thumb.

I am not able to play komal swars also as well as Shuddh Ma.

I have watched tonnes of videos on YouTube, I think I am following them exactly but still no use. Some say to only use middle pads of every finger. Others say to use middle pads for first two fingers and first pad for 3rd finger for each hand.

I have tried all these. But it's all air unless I press very hard to cover the holes.

Please help me with this.

I think am losing all my motivation as I can't even play basic sa re ga ma now.

I ate it at someone's house in Ludhiana, Punjab.

It was thick smoothish liquid, dark green, sour and spicy.

It had no pakora, aloo Or anything in the gravy.

Our hosts called it Kadhi Chawal which was surprising to me because typical punjabi Kadhi chawal were yellowish, thickened with chickpea flour, and had pakoda Or aloo.

Despite being green it didn't have any spinach or herby taste.

Anyone else make kadhi like this in their homes?

I played today after a few days. There was a 200 mb update.

Now everytime I played, midgame games crash. Around 10th villager or so.

There's a beep and notification from steam saying 'cloud conflict'.

Although all my settings are set to local saves not cloud.

Anyone else facing this?

I am like 95℅ sure it was from Powerpuff girls but my friends say that it may be my fever dream from childhood.

A cosmic giant, mecha like being enters solar system. He puts all the planets on a skewer like a kebab Or dango and uses the sun to grill them up.

Big fires spread in different parts of the earth and the girls try to save the planet.

Anyone remembers this or am i confusing it with some other early 2000s cartoon?

Hi.

I have been working on making this resource since last few months.

It contains all types of nutrients I could think of: Vitamins, Minerals, Essential Fatty Acids, Amino Acids, Phytonutrients, Pre/Pro biotics, Fibre, Macronutrients etc

Their top 3 sources in India. Daily requirement. What happens due to their deficiency and excess.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1czJwd42z9kiu4e-sbWh2o8J0PImddwNx/view?usp=drivesdk

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A doctor friend of mine went through it before and gave some corrections which I did. But this may not be perfect and I am not perfect so please let me know if you see any mistakes or inaccuracies.

I hope it can be beneficial for your health journey and everyone reach their fitness goals!