Battle for Middle Earth

Time: 01.52.49
Map: Fords of Isen

Isengard, the mighty army of middle earth is defending the river Isen. They hold all three fords but the knights of Gondor are good knights and are able to pass.

Isengard - StRiDaH

BO: Pit, 2 mills
PP: Chant, tainted land, fuel the fires, balrog, rain

Creeping
Stole creep infront of knights
Map controll
Cowered all entrence to you're side of map
Hiding units to regenerate

One usless bat of uruks
Unprotected castle
Finnish upgrades then sell
Why flee Lurtz from Gandalf

Micro: 6/10
Strat: 7/10
Overall: 6.5/10

Gondor - [DIVA]cX9uiL23T

(Keep to one nick plz. im getting confused)
BO: 2 farms in, 5 farms out
PP: Elven wood, heal, elves, Gandalf the white, eagles, army of the dead, summon Rohirim

Taking farm near warglair
Very good harasment
Nice horseshiled attacks
You kept him under constant preasure
Got true the baricade of pics
Exploding five or six mines

Lost two bats of horses (if you weren't one of the pros I wouled not see so strict on this)
Bad horseshiled rush
Make more trebs
Lost Gandalf twice

Micro: 7/10
Strat: 7/10
Overall: 7/10

Game play: 7/10
Entertainment: 6.5/10
Overall: 7/10

Promoted to SILVER and ROTW contender

ill have to argue that the horse shield rush was bad. when i lost the 2 horses it was pretty ugly but when i got 2 more up id say i did some nice damage Also i think i had PLENTY of trebs

I think the main mistake here was losing those 2 horses so early, i was quite upset at how horrid that was. I had to rebuild stable just to get a harrassing force back up and also i let the warg own my farm at the beginning ;/ Gandalf could of easily been saved the second time and perhaps the first but hopefully the isengard is good enough to at least do something and kill him once =D

thx for review

gg

I'm definitely gonna watch

Will give it watch but I don´t expect much really!

the rush was bad, that means the first attack. the rest was just amazing lol.

the rush was bad, that means the first attack. the rest was just amazing lol.

3 things to add:
Gondor:
1. Bad placement of market
2. Imo getting blades this early is not a good idea. (It would loose to ramrush)
3. Lost farm to wargs at start. (You can call it unlucky if you want, but I won´t, the fact is that that middle farms builds slow)

Personally, I liked the game.

Good play by both Stridah and Pilbots even though there were some mistakes.

Stridah could of taken early game advantage by simply ram rushing Pilbot's Bladed and Market build. But then again, that would of went against your "containment" strategy.

Pilbot's Gandalf micro and WB placement was a bit off. He could of rushed Gandalf after Market because there was CLEARLY no indication of siege tactics. Even though Pil lost Gandalf twice, nearly 3 times, it was very nice to see Gandalf finally reaching lvl 10.

Another thing to point on for all Gondor players is that you only need 5 BS and Workshop in base. That leaves you with 5 BS, Workshop, Market, Well (or a BS), and the last spot SHOULD be for Stables. Notice Pilbot's cash float the entire time. A 10% decrease in income for a quicker horse reponse is a must have. That would of devastated Stridah must faster as his left containment wall broke many times. A quick push with 3+ bats of forged horses would of destroyed his entire left expansion along with half of his base (if Pilbots kept pushing). Sadly, Pilbots didn't have the units (knights) to make that blow.

Very good game none the less and I strongly recommend this replay for our last GOLD contender in 1.02. Truely a replay rival of that GOLD game I had against BaLL; Gondor vs Isen. This is highest I ever rated a replay in BfME history. Hats off to both players.


HERO

You should allways delete stables after HS imo, no more knights are needed! so 6 BS in base!

Thx for review. Thx for the feedback guys. Couple things bout the review. I'd have to argue the scores are a little low, even for me, lol. I know my strat wasn't a 7/10 when you consider the fact that most of the other isens wouldn't even cause pilly to break his stride, whilst I actually appeared to be 'in control' of the game for awhile, i'd say up until he completley destoyed my siege momentum with my damn mines going up in smoke. My micro was 6.5, off of what standard? His horse micro was 9/10 imo, his strat was at least 8/10, and would have been perfect with an earlier gandalf, which I was expecting. Thx for your time regardless, appreaciated.


Thats a freaking FACT!! LoL


Oh and thx for the words HERO, means a lot comming from you.

Enigma: I work today, going to work in one hour. I'll be back around 2 or 3PM pacific time, and i'll be on xfire or msn which are, again, stridah / [email protected], hope to play you soon.