that was cool. i mean i am not posting it to see what rank it will get, but to show somekind of new strat(i doubt that ppl use it in this MU) and it 100% worked. tho yes, i knew the playstyle of MrShanky and i am not sure that it will work against someone else. anyway, enjoy ppl, it is a strange game
Review by:Fledge
Starting positions: [MD]squonk West MrShankly East
Version: BT2DC 1.7
Overview: A game at first leaning toward the side of MrShankly as he got creep after creep, but slowly being regained by squonk. Squonk begins with Four mallorns and then proceeds to creep get cav and and troops. He then immediatly puts MrShankly on the defense as MrShankly built five or six batts of archers and no pikes. The climax happens as their two armies meet. But MrShankly not as well equiped with troops loses all and from there its a down hill slide for him. Very shortly after the game ends. I believe this is a very amusing game because both of them started with bos that are exteremely vunerable to cav rushes but neither one of them rushes! A very well played game for the most part by both parties. Because it is so short though I am giving it a 4.
[MD]squonk (Elves)
You began with an interesting bo to say the least! Although I would not recomend that because any type of rush would instantly kill you. I think that if you want to go high resources you should go Tree, Tree, Rax, Archer so on and so forth. Lol, that was cutting it close with glorfindel don't you think? Next I believe that keeping your men out of the forts range is an excellent idea. Because one of the elven secrets involves keeping troops alive as long as possible to do the maximum amount of damage with the littlest amount af spending, I think you both should have bought the elven fort upgrade of mystic fountains. It has a huge radius and it heals very very fast. I watched a batt of Lancers get eaten down to one single horse man and I wanted to reach over there and take him to your fort to heal and become a full batt again. Very well played btw!
Points of Improvment:
Keeping troops alive! If you have severely damaged troops save them by healing them with the mystic fountain fort expansion.
Try to keep with a safer bo. I would not recomend this against anyone but MrShankly and people you already know will not rush you. I get rushed almost everytime I play as elves.
MrShankly (Elves)
Too many archers as your begining troops! The cavalry decimated you! Mix in at least one or two pikes in your bo instead of getting six archer batts right off the bat. It hurt me to watch that huge battle between the LA's where you lost everything. Sadly that is where you lost the game. I think that you might have saved your men if you had let him come to you instead off the other way around. One on one the first LA to fire wins, so wait for him to come to you so you can win those type of battles. Or if possible get that first fire in any way you can. I believe you lost this game because of your lack of troop mixture. He got everything just before you did and that put the advantage in his hands everytime.
Points of Improvment:
Troop mixture! If you had two pikes out when he hit you with those cavalry then I believe you would have held him off. So mix pikes in with your archers to give them the extra protection they need.
Choosing the battle ground! Since you are an elven player you need to asses every battle and decide whether you can win or not. If you don't think you can win, run! There is no shame in picking when and where the battle is so you can win it.
Overall Rating: 4
This post has been edited by Fledge: Jul 28 2007, 16:20 PM
yeah, i am not saying that it is my new strat, and i bet there were players b4 DLJ who did same(noobs pretty often do it) but in that MU did u see many cw games with that strat? u do not rush, why not to make eco advantage from beginning?
i did creep 1 warg lair and stole 1 troll lair killed his archers. but, creep income is permanent. many farms is for long time. you will see that as soon as he spent creep money he had nothing to defend with.
yeah, i am not saying that it is my new strat, and i bet there were players b4 DLJ who did same(noobs pretty often do it) but in that MU did u see many cw games with that strat? u do not rush, why not to make eco advantage from beginning?
the reason i play the way i do is to be safer from cav rush. Scouting or making a pike early is the only other way, i dont like doing either so i just attempt to creep as much as i can so if i get cav rushed i can use that money to help get back on my feet.Sumtimes it pays off but against some things it doesnt.
yeah, i understand, i am not trying to blame you or so(no way) and my calling u camper is nothing more than joke for it is extremely difficult to win u for me and i though that this strat may work(thats why i said MY strat - i did not take it from someone even if it is not new). it worked and i am posting it
Review by:Fledge
Starting positions:
[MD]squonk West
MrShankly East
Version: BT2DC 1.7
Overview:
A game at first leaning toward the side of MrShankly as he got creep after creep, but slowly being regained by squonk. Squonk begins with Four mallorns and then proceeds to creep get cav and and troops. He then immediatly puts MrShankly on the defense as MrShankly built five or six batts of archers and no pikes. The climax happens as their two armies meet. But MrShankly not as well equiped with troops loses all and from there its a down hill slide for him. Very shortly after the game ends.
I believe this is a very amusing game because both of them started with bos that are exteremely vunerable to cav rushes but neither one of them rushes! A very well played game for the most part by both parties. Because it is so short though I am giving it a 4.
[MD]squonk (Elves)
You began with an interesting bo to say the least! Although I would not recomend that because any type of rush would instantly kill you. I think that if you want to go high resources you should go Tree, Tree, Rax, Archer so on and so forth. Lol, that was cutting it close with glorfindel don't you think? Next I believe that keeping your men out of the forts range is an excellent idea. Because one of the elven secrets involves keeping troops alive as long as possible to do the maximum amount of damage with the littlest amount af spending, I think you both should have bought the elven fort upgrade of mystic fountains. It has a huge radius and it heals very very fast. I watched a batt of Lancers get eaten down to one single horse man and I wanted to reach over there and take him to your fort to heal and become a full batt again. Very well played btw!
Points of Improvment:
MrShankly (Elves)
Too many archers as your begining troops! The cavalry decimated you! Mix in at least one or two pikes in your bo instead of getting six archer batts right off the bat. It hurt me to watch that huge battle between the LA's where you lost everything. Sadly that is where you lost the game. I think that you might have saved your men if you had let him come to you instead off the other way around. One on one the first LA to fire wins, so wait for him to come to you so you can win those type of battles. Or if possible get that first fire in any way you can. I believe you lost this game because of your lack of troop mixture. He got everything just before you did and that put the advantage in his hands everytime.
Points of Improvment:
Overall Rating: 4