Explain to me how DE is inferior to Elf.
I've been reading a lot of your posts and you seem to think Elf is vastly superior to DE for the purpose of...well just about everything.
As I see it Elve's may get that nice 73% compounding bonus on magic (30% strength +33% more spells) but lose out on getting rogue as an option.
If you're trying to use that extra mana recovery you need to play Mystic, which means now that the rogue option is closed off to you.
I'm playing DE rogue this age and I picked it for a couple of reasons:
I use 12% of my land to become a full fledged threat on the magic battlefield. I am referring to the fact that even with mystic bonus an elf still needs to divert a solid 7-10% of extra land to towers before science kicks in. That land is spent by DE rogues on Thieves Dens and makes being a rogue a very easy worthwhile option since you can compound it further by using invisibility.
I guess I'm angry with you, you so easily glance over DE's without acknowledging how dangerous they can truly be.
Picking someone apart as a DE is as simple as finding one hole to make it through on and capitolising.
weak magic? pretty freaking likely since DE is the only race to run with +magic effectiveness. Spam nightmares on them to drop their rogues and army out of the picture. That opens them up to being NS'd right away. An A/T hybrid doesn't often run WT's so once you've weakened their standing army and their TPA with Nightmares you can just unleash the fury of combining greater arson on hospitals + nightstrike. Ripening them up for an attack.
Strong Magic with WT's?
Well unless they are also DE just use magic through them.
Mystic Vortex a few times and smack them with Tornado spam. Greater arson more WT's and open the floodgates to the rogue. Use that opening to Arson farms and steal food and bam...person is starving to death. -50% losses doesn't stop your army from starving to death.
Don't even let me get started on how much you can strip a pure attacker.
You preach the power of flexibility and adaptability yet you cuss out the race that has the most of it. Co-ordinated players using nightmares is invaluable for taking a province out of the picture and Elves don't even get access to it. Playing DE rogue is like playing with a swiss army knife. You can do anything and everything and unless the person is a turtle T/M you're going to make an opening.
Elves don't have nightmares and they can't take advantage of the rogue personality without serious losses to their land efficiency.
Tell me what I'm missing. Elves run with clearsight and WT's with lots of magic making them pretty hard to take down, but I don't see them being more dangerous than a DE rogue....ever.
I'm not trying to be say I'm better than you, I just want to know what I am not seeing....you often make blanket statements that to me are just assertions that are not backed up by anything. Explain it to me please in it's fullest why an Elf is so much better than a DE.