Battle for Middle Earth

Architect review please

im not officaly a RR, but ill review 4 u.

I will review.

Dream|Soul (Random - Gondor)
Build Order: 1 Farm + Pippin, Farms, Stables, Knights, Well, Horse Shields, Gandalf, Faramir
PP: Heal, Elven Allies, Gandalf the White

Warg farms.
Good use of soldier formations to defend farms.
Used Merry to harass Mordor mill workers.
Avoided Mumakil charges with Gandalf.

Knight formations were a bit questionable, attacking wargs in wedge, riding around in wedge.
Poor micro on the initial Horse Shield rush on the Mordor base.
Let Mordor rebuild their citadel in the attack on the base so they spammed new buildings forcing you to retreat.

Comments: Standard type of build order helped by the lack of early harassment from Mordor. Knight formations could use a little attention - always in line except when you arrive at a building and then switch to wedge. Don't let Mordor rebuild his citadel while you attack everything else and use Gandalf spells more when you are in his base destroying it. A competent performance with some minor errors but nothing. I would be tempted to give you a 7 but you were never pressured into making any difficult choices.

Rating: 6


]LtG[PPjW (Randon - Mordor)
Build Order: 2 Pits, Mills, Slaughter Houses, Trolls, Outposts, Mumakil, Haradrim
PP: Tortured Land, Eye of Sauron, Industry, Darkness

Quick extra mill workers.
Put haradrim in the Mumakil to draw fire.
Towers built when you saw the knights but maybe try one or two more.

You didn't really use Gollum for anything after getting him.
Didn't harass Gondor's early economy to prevent fast Gandalf because you waited for orcs to be in groups too large before moving.
Outpost came too slow. You should get it when your first troll comes out to harass the knights back into their castle.

Comments: Generally a slow Mordor and it allowed the Gondor economy to take off. There was nothing much wrong with the strategy it was just executed slowly with little harassment. This meant Gondor was able get the resources to break out of their castle and harass the Mordor base quite quickly and Mordor was slow to bring siege up and keep pressure on.

Rating: 4


Match Comments

Not a match to watch. You never get the impression that the Mordor player is keeping any pressure on until much too late. The Gondor player is good but the whole game is quite boring.

Overall game rating: 4

Entertainment value: 2

Entertainment 2?

I mean, it wasnt the most entertaining match, but ive never seen the number 2 used in a review in my life.

.ppjw said he was only messing around. I stand by my entertainment rating but then my entertainment rating is not what I would call official, it is just a measure of how enthralled I was watching the replay. Needless to say the lacklustre Mordor performance had me completely surrounded by no thrall at all. Other people may get some satisfaction from watching a replay where Mordor gets beaten by Gondor on Fords by not camping but it is not satisfying to me unless Mordor puts up a fight.

ty for the review

Anytime.

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