Battle for Middle Earth

yeah it works well

Yeah, I can criticize by pointing out he really had nothing but catapults up there (except for a Naz for a bit...), but you wouldn't know that in game. Plus, you won, so it doesn't matter so much.



*shrug*

agreed

WB|Lama (Rohan) vs. FAR|crack1n (Mordor)

Match description:
Orcs are hunting for man-flesh at the once so peaceful Fords of Isen.
But the people of Rohan feels safe behind its walls, trusting in their brave rohirrim.
Trust can be deceiving sometimes...
BAM BAM BAM!
"CAVE TROLLS!"
The faces of the townsmen are filled with horror - how should they defend their homes against those monsters?


WB|Lama (Rohan)
BO: 2 rohirrim+Theoden, Legolas, Aragorn, fire, elves, horse-archers

got farm at Mordor's side
grabbed farm near warg pit, gives nice extra-boost.
got rohirrim quickly
stole a creep from Mordor
nice harassing + creeping
Theoden came pretty late
allowed his trolls to weaken your rohirrim too much
opened gate to prevent trolls from knocking it down, baited trolls into base-> free XP for Legolas
yeomen would've been better on the wall, didn't pit them in skirmish
throughout the match nearly never forgot to use Legolas' train archers-ability
good use of elendil
perfectly timed Eowyn->Nazgul = *poof*
Awesome job surviving his sieges / Aragorn and GCed Rohirrim.
could've been more agressive

Player summary:
Really awesome job to survive his massive sieges! I've really thought you wouldn't survive.
However, it took you too long to attack his OP where the catas came from.
Several times you were able to take down the Op at the bottom left, imho, you should've tried to attack the siege-OP.
You even might've been able to destroy it really early in the game when you still had your elves.
Don't forget to think ahead, Mordor's answer to fire is cata-spam, so try to find that OP b4 too many catas get out!
Anyway, very good job winning this match!

Player rating: 7/10

FAR|crack1n (Mordor)
BO: 2x pit, trolls, Nazgul, cata-spam

took his farms down pretty fast
good timing of sentry towers
good creeping, maybe a little bit too slow bc you sent too many orcs to his side
got trolls fast
2nd troll cage should be build in base, replace 1 orc pit. You can spam trolls faster.
don't feed Legolas /w trolls, next time don't send those 2 trolls into his base, there's a reason he opened the gate... Once wall is breached stop wasting trolls on Legolas, you only help him to quickly level up.
good massing of trolls and use of eye+TL to attack Aragorn but:
don't also attack him with the nazgul. Your trolls were also affected by its swoop and that was the reason why Aragorn could escape alive. That could'Ve won you the match, ie killing Aragorn that early
lost Nazgul, don't get too close to Rohan's castle /w the Nazgul. Once you get it, rohan almost always will have Legolas+Eowyn
good switch to cata-spam
reclaim mills at his side faster during your siege, took you a while to do that
you could've afforded 3x siege at the OP for faster cata-spam
use industry on rank 2 or 3 building rather than on rank 1 buildings
never attack fire-archers /w nazgul all on his own
very nice use of balrog, 1st summon killed all of his HA+Eomer, used fire-breath to kill half of his AotD. 2nd balrog killed his Legolas+Aragorn.
slow with reviving the nazgul
don't move catas back when they're attacked, so they can keep on firing

Player summary:
Don't waste too many trolls on his Legolas.
If you plan to spam trolls, it's faster if you get the 2nd cage inside your base before getting any OP.
Your switch to cata-spam came just in time, nice!
But your catas weren't protected enough most of the times and you made the mistake to try to retreat with them backwards.
Surround the catas /w orcs, this slows down his Rohirrim and the catas have more time to kill them.
Fire-archers could help to weaken Aragorn more. But it was also good to have trolls to protect the catas vs. Argaorn. Drummer trolls add a nice extra-oomph.
Don't move the catas when they're attacked and down move in the opposite direction so they have to turn around, when they're moving, they can't shoot.

Player rating: 6/10

Overall summary:
Very nice defense by Rohan, Rohan often is this close from being defeated but manages to survive and win the match.
Overall entertaining match, though it drags a little bit in the end.

Overall rating: 7/10

Promoted to SILVER.

That's a pro b/c it takes wargs a while to kill the farm and Rohan can certainly use the eco boost. U just have to make sure they don't hit the farm when its at 0% when u 1st start bldg or u just wasted 200.

thks4review

yeh its pretty ownage strat on fords especially... i always wondered why ive only seen it done from victoire up to now. but i tested it myself with a mate and i realized that u have to be really skilled in doing it to really get an advantage out of it. in my games it almost slowed me down more then him cause then i came too late to harass his econ cause sometimes u have to wait till wargs run behind their lair and dont block the spot and u have to be careful they dont kill ur peasants or merry etc. but if u train it its friggin effective really cause the opponent cant even attack them with startunits cause when he does the wargs let off of the farm and attack the units and attacking a farm with crossbows is rather nuts imo

ill watch it now see wot all the fuss is about

its also a very good way to creap with your merry, wargs focused on farms, merry kills wargs, get some peasants and bye bye lair

^^ very cool!