Finding a lot of games recently that involve single sari units loaded with epic gear sniping away at my villagers within the first 2-3 minutes of the game. I didn't mind that early on as the lack of gear made that a difficult strategy to pull off, and villies en masse could easily kill the sari. But in Tier 7+ it's basically just a matter of building a stable and setting the gathering point on the enemy city, where each sari is basically guaranteed to kill 1-3 villagers with almost no micro (even with 5 villagers attacking the sari), which changes the early game completely.
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