[Question] Military strategy for conquering the SAAB continent

[jlshetler]

Ten times I have asked advice on this forum about strategies for attacking the new continents, and you have always had excellent suggestions and insights. Hopefully others have found those discussions useful as well. Here are the previous links:

PE:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...trategy-for-conquering-the-pe-continent.8011/

ME:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com/index.php?threads/me-military-advice-request.8585/

PME:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...rategy-for-conquering-the-pme-continent.9210/

CE:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...rategy-for-conquering-the-ce-continent.10128/

TE:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...-for-conquering-the-tomorrow-continent.10701/

FE:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...gy-for-conquering-the-future-continent.11625/

AF:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...conquering-the-arctic-future-continent.13724/

OF:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...onquering-the-oceanic-future-continent.17106/

VF:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...rategy-for-conquering-the-vf-continent.23512/

SAM:
https://forum.us.forgeofempires.com...ategy-for-conquering-the-sam-continent.26169/

The SAM continent was most easily taken by using eight Rocket Troops when the opposing army didn't have flying units or stealth units, with a mix of Tesla Walkers (to hit stealth) or Sentinels (to hit flying and otherwise attack first) when it did. I see this strategy also works for at least the first SAAB province.

Questions for those who are experienced from Beta:

(1) What is the best use of earlier age units to get started?
(2) Does SAAB introduce any new battle formats (like the urban terrain of CE or the two-wave attack of PME)? If so, what are the best tactics for dealing with them?
(3) Which, if any, of the new SAAB units are useful to build?
(4) Is the enemy AI any different than in previous continents, so that Rogues might be useful?

Again, many thanks to all willing to lend their expertise.

-Joe
jlshetler, Houndsmoor

 

[BruteForceAttack]

SAAB is easy... just use 8 mars fast and auto.... on 2nd map last 2 or 3 you can use 8 nail storm

 

[Lady Shintina]

The SAM continent was most easily taken by using eight Rocket Troops when the opposing army didn't have flying units or stealth units, with a mix of Tesla Walkers (to hit stealth) or Sentinels (to hit flying and otherwise attack first) when it did.

Just reached SAM and have a question about this. I don't see any units in SAM that have stealth, so are you referring to previous era units or does a different SAM skill work in the same manner as stealth in a way?

Thanks for posting all of this information, great reference!