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Rise of the Witchking 2.01

LoD| vs TC

#1Zonks  Jun 17 2007, 16:52 PM -
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Starting positions:
LoD|LordDagon - Angmar + LoD|DragonRider - Angmar - North
TC|Ancalagon^ - Goblins + GaMsT^PeDeRsEn - Angmar - South


Overview:

When a game is this long, or the file size is this big you'd expect a lot of action...................which is exactly what this game had. At some times, the skill shown from some players was quite suprising, but the amount of battles going on made up for it. Having arguably the weakest army in this match, TC|Ancalagon^ pulled off a great goblin spam which ultimately kept them in the game early on. The pressure applied early on by all players wasnt great, but it certainly picked up in mid-game. The winner of this match was never decided until the very end, there was even one point in the replay when i thought one team should give up. Funnily they actually won the game, so fighting till the very important!


LoD|LordDagon - Angmar + LoD|DragonRider - Angmar

Tbh this game suprised me in many ways. One of which was how at some points you both seemed to just switch off. I dont know whether you were distracted by anything or something but at times you wer doing things, or not doing things, which were just stupid. At one point, DragonRiders base was being owned by Hwaldar and some spearmen. LordDagon had some axethrowers and orcs sitting in his allies base, basically watching it get owned. At times, you were chasing down heroes like Rogash and Hwaldar wen they were on very little health, and you had your orcs in defensive. When your trailing someone you get such a damage bonus, if you put them in aggresive any hero will go down instantly. Alot of times you just had idle units around te map, that could have helped in defeding your base or launching an attack. The spam from LordDagon was great, being able to defend both bases and attack both enemies. Mixed in with his heroes, his part in this sucess was vital. As for DragonRider, i didnt see one hero from you all game. You constantly tied to outspam GaMsT^PeDeRsEn but as he had heroes like Hwaldar and Rogash you were never gonna beat him. You should have seen how much your allied heroes helped him; his karsh made light work of all the goblins and the boost from Hwaldar meant that he could apply pressure more effectivly. At times you would hav over 2k and still wouldnt buy a hero, it really confused me. If you had got hwaldar early on you could have stopped GaMsT^PeDeRsEn and possibly even helped him! In the end, you were both raiding the bottom left corner. The only problem was that you werent doing it together. LordDagon would attack and lose his army, and while he was rebuilding it, DragonRider would go and attack. If you had launche one attack together you would have surly won! DragonRider, you also lost your catapults stupidly a few times. Moving about 5-6 across the map with the AT's running infront just left them wide open to Drogoth. You should have sent some down into the bottom right, where you knew he was, just to distract him. Overall it was a good game, i think the length of it just caused some lack of concentration later on.

    Tips for improvement
  • Better use of stances in all circumstances. Defensive as neutral and when heroes are fighting. Aggresive when attacking a building or trampling with cavalry
  • DragonRider - Get some heroes, they seriously would have helped!
  • Try to manage all your units instead of leaving them idle around the map. You should number them (CTRL + number if you didnt know) and that way you can find them alot easier
  • You had problems stopping drogoth from harassing and hiding in the bottom right and they were even building there at times. If you could have built a few towers maybe with some AT's in you could have known that nothing would be coming up behind you.
  • Try getting a forward base. In the end when you were both attacking bottom left, DragonRider had to take his army across the whole make, leaving it vulnerale to Drogoth. You should have bought some more HokM and even another siege works to apply pressure alot quicker.


TC|Ancalagon^ - Goblins + GaMsT^PeDeRsEn - Angmar

you both seemed to play a pretty flawless game, but in the end it just wasnt enough. GaMsT^PeDeRsEn you held a nice spam, with the backing of hwaldar and later on rogash, but you never seemed to fully finish off DragonRider. This was mainly due to the fact that his ally was helping him defend alot. Normally, this is when GaMsT^PeDeRsEn ally would be blamed, but he also was playing a nice game. You had a nice fast 4 cave spam, which really stopped LordDagon from overunning you. I'd suggest geting Azog earlier, and even upgrading your caves so that they produce much faster. Also, when you attack a base with 4 goblins, try to split them up. Take 2 each side and that way it would be alot harder for him defend, and you could probably take down a resource building or two. You use of both 25PP's was good, but you didnt use them well enough to do much damage. Sure he made his fortress invincible, but you could ha taken out the rest of his base. One flame breath would have killed most of his units, if not all of them, while the wolf could have gone around killing all the Mills. It was a good performance, but in the end they got lucky wth taking your fort down with their wolf.

    Tips for improvement
  • More teamwork when attacking. Launch more attacks together and when you do attack try to split up your army to do more damage.
  • Faster heroes from Ancalagon would have helped, and upgrading the caves would have also been useful
  • GaMsT^PeDeRsEn you shoud have gone for sorcerers or catapults instead of rogash as imo they would have helped alot more


Overall Rating: 6

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This post has been edited by JuanRing: Sep 16 2007, 13:24 PM
#2LethaL™  Jun 17 2007, 17:31 PM -
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Rofl.
#3LordNerevar  Jun 17 2007, 19:02 PM -
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nice comment wink.gif
#4Black King Of Numenor  Jun 17 2007, 19:14 PM -
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gratz dudes biggrin.gif
#5FrosTzYy  Jun 17 2007, 19:35 PM -
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Now thats a nice comment wink.gif thx BKON biggrin.gif
#6Steve.  Jun 17 2007, 19:51 PM -
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Congratz guys! biggrin.gif
#7Duali†y  Jun 17 2007, 21:26 PM -
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QUOTE(LethaL™ @ Jun 17 2007, 17:31 PM) *

Roflol.


Congratz mates smile.gif biggrin.gif
This post has been edited by -Duality-: Jun 18 2007, 09:54 AM
#8Yellow2Bellow  Jun 17 2007, 21:42 PM -
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Wow entertaining but VERY LONG REPLAY(close to 1h)...
#9Ab3r`  Jun 18 2007, 10:55 AM -
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the OP fort arrg, i want meh medal tongue.gif
#10FrosTzYy  Jun 18 2007, 12:10 PM -
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Well played by you guys, was one of the hardest games i had. tongue.gif Also you will get your medal, if you lost or won it doesnt matter. biggrin.gif
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