The beacons of Minas Tirith! The beacons are lit! Veliamar and Seebs call for aid.
Dwarves vs Elves.
In my opinion it's a pretty hard MU for Dwarves. Mainly because Elves are quick while Dwarves are slow. Ofcourse the Dwarves have mines that they need to use to quickly get around.
Now for your replay
Veliamar-You went with a 3 farm and 1 barracks start, which is a basic but good start. The first batalion you made was an archer battalion, which results in you playing defensive for the first minutes. This could work but it could also backfire, It works when the Dwarf focusses his attacks coming from 1 mineshaft/1 direction. Which was the case in this game. If the Dwarf would send both builders to build forward mines at different locations it could be dangerous. Because you don't have troops to kill the mines and the archers can't defend 2 sides alone.
Tips-I noticed you were sitting on a lot of recources trough out the game. at one point you made Legolas with it, which is a good choice. But you could have made some ents and probably win the game a lot quicker, since the Dwarf had nothing to deal with it if your army would defend the ents.
-I felt you made Mirkwoods a bit too late, especially with the amount of recources you had. Some cavalry could have been good for harrasing as well. Furthermore upgrades would have been a good choice too.
-The second time you went for the troll creep, you sent like 85% of your army, which I find very excesive. You could have attacked with a lot of those troops and creeped with no more than 2.
-Some more harrasing would be good.
Well done's-You expanded well, especially in the early game. Building strategic farmes to have vision on possibly the dwarven builders.
-Good starting hero. Easy for him to kill Dwarves, his splash damage makes it risky for dwarves to evecuate from mines and when he reaches level 6 he gets leadership.
-Sniping BW with your heroes was a good choice
Seebs-2 mines and a barracks + a forward mine. After you evecuated the mine and noticed that Lorien Battalion you should have retreated and built a different forward mine. That Guardian battalion was wasted, especially because you didn't finish the farm. A quicker archery range would have helped a lot as well, so you can kill his archers easier.
tips-You were quite passive in the early game, giving the Elves a chance to build up and get a lot of cash.
-You had 2 guardians moving to a troll lair without a Troll, to kill 1 Mithlond battalion. You managed to chase away the Mithlonds, leaving the Troll lair completely free for taking, but you didn't.
-Try using the Guardian charge ability, as it gives the same buff as RC.
-Be more aggresive with mines, without forward mines you make it very hard for yourself. Even when you have to defend, get some mines in his bases to get some pressure of off yourself.
-Men of Dale would have been usefull in many sitations.
-If you cannot micro Battlewagons very well, don't make many of them. 1 for Leadership would be good because you don't need to micro it much.
-Don't summon hobbits on top of an army, this will often kill. Try summoning them behind an army and attack form 2 sides.
Well done's-Brand is a great choice in this MU, good work on that.
-Although you lost quite a lot of Battlewagons, you did get a couple pretty sweet tramples.
-Your macro was pretty decent, keep practising!
-Zealots was a good choice to deal with the heroes. Would have been better if you has some Men of Dale to help killing the units, while the Zealots go for his heroes.
Overall a pretty decent game. I hope my feedback is of good use to you. Keep Posting them, and for the readers: don't forget to
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This post has been edited by Belenos: Sep 2 2018, 14:48 PM
The purpose of this replay is to find some help for seebs to and perhaps highlight what he could have done differently
(Not to say he is a bad player aha)
Anyone willing to help us out and give tips will be greatly appreciated