A rather over aggressive brute force game between Gondor and Isengard. Both players used relatively new strategies that did alright considering what each one did. Quite a few mistakes but a pretty good game.
[FOR]NoOneElse - Gondor
You were very suprised by his approach to stop the soldier rush at the expense of his mills but you didn't take advantage of this situation. Could of fought the uruks once the WC ran out (2 soldiers > 1 uruk) or waited on the land when you got a horse out. Your main problem was your strategy. Always remember harrasing Isen's economy to gain MC is top priority. Thus, try to always send your first horse to his mills and try to get a some soldiers out to counter these pikes (perfect since he did not make wargs) and get Elves ASAP.Your micro/macro on your HS rush was decent but lost far too many horses (part of the flaw in your strat, never HS rush unless you have at least a portion of the map). I think 4 horses can be over-achieving/not neccessary in this MU.
How to Improve
Just keep playing and you will experience all the different possible starts an Isen can throw at you.
Strategy. MC is key factor in all MU's. Soldiers, skip heal and go straight to elves... pretty much anything to do with harrasing. You could have sent out some soldiers while he was rebuilding his siege and regained back some MC (again he had no wargs).
Unit mixing. Mass horses and soldiers is just not going to cutt it late game. Horses, combos, heroes, trebs... the whole shi-bang.
Micro/Macro. You need to pay more attention to your horses when HS rushing and micro'ing around small details and on a large scale. Often you had battalions idle doing nothing (Hero micro is included, Gandalf was lost a second time un-neccessarily).
FallenPhoenix - Isengard
You played a very aggressive start geared toward stopping the soldier rush which can be risky for your economy so I reccommend you considering different starts (the Isengard Strategy Forum is an option). Your building placement will change as well with your start (a pit toward the side/front of the base is reccommended). You had an oP pike spam and did a good job creeping and stopping the HS rush. But don't forget to demolish your towers and furns to reduce the amount of PP's your opponent recieves. Your main problem was your army diffrientiation. The pike spam was good but an early soldier spam could damage your economy greatly. Thus wargs are reccommended in this MU. Siege protection was good but I think you over did it with the amount of siege.
How to Improve
Starting strategies and building placement. Try to balance out between economy and being able to defend your mills (I find the pit/furn start is the best).
Small micro mistakes were made such as with pike formations caused you to be slow to help defend.
Demolishing towers and buildings. Far too many PP's were giving to your opponent in this game.
Unit mixing. Loose uruks did the job for you this time but a soldier spam could be your demise.
Overall Rating:5
This post has been edited by Luân^: Mar 15 2007, 02:59 AM
Great game showing a completely orignal strat by mr. dance here. was really op with none-stop harassent the whole game and probebly 6+ base rushes. Only thing that wasn't completly op entertainment was that my seige was pretty well done so it wasn't really epic but still fun to watch gandy die
1. Light you said many other things last night, which would make others be uncomfortable around you. 2. I invoke my right of this replay belonging to me to be luan's to review.
[quote name='DanceAndRomance' date='Mar 13 2007, 19:59 PM' post='2530394'] tsk tsk mr SRR respect the people under you *not like that you dirty thing you* Games seem so much better when your playing them
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WP phoenix
Review by: Luân
Starting positions:
[FOR]NoOneElse - Northwest
FallenPhoenix - Southeast
Overview:
A rather over aggressive brute force game between Gondor and Isengard. Both players used relatively new strategies that did alright considering what each one did. Quite a few mistakes but a pretty good game.
[FOR]NoOneElse - Gondor
You were very suprised by his approach to stop the soldier rush at the expense of his mills but you didn't take advantage of this situation. Could of fought the uruks once the WC ran out (2 soldiers > 1 uruk) or waited on the land when you got a horse out. Your main problem was your strategy. Always remember harrasing Isen's economy to gain MC is top priority. Thus, try to always send your first horse to his mills and try to get a some soldiers out to counter these pikes (perfect since he did not make wargs) and get Elves ASAP.Your micro/macro on your HS rush was decent but lost far too many horses (part of the flaw in your strat, never HS rush unless you have at least a portion of the map). I think 4 horses can be over-achieving/not neccessary in this MU.
How to Improve
FallenPhoenix - Isengard
You played a very aggressive start geared toward stopping the soldier rush which can be risky for your economy so I reccommend you considering different starts (the Isengard Strategy Forum is an option). Your building placement will change as well with your start (a pit toward the side/front of the base is reccommended). You had an oP pike spam and did a good job creeping and stopping the HS rush. But don't forget to demolish your towers and furns to reduce the amount of PP's your opponent recieves. Your main problem was your army diffrientiation. The pike spam was good but an early soldier spam could damage your economy greatly. Thus wargs are reccommended in this MU. Siege protection was good but I think you over did it with the amount of siege.
How to Improve
Overall Rating: 5