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Rise of the Witchking 2.01

CAtcH`Me^|TuN3r vs JR|JuanRing

#1JuanRing  Jul 1 2007, 14:47 PM -
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Review by: Yellow2Bellow

Starting positions:
Mordor/CAtcH`Me^|TuN3r - West
Angmar/JR|JuanRing - East

Overview:

An exciting game between two skilled players. Both players knew how to play their factions and didn't make any big mistakes. There was action everywhere on the map and the winner of the game wasn't clear for a long time. CAtcH`Me^ decided to go for a massive orc spam during the game with hero support later, JuanRing went for thrallmaster spam with dark rangers to counter CAtcH`Me^'s fellbeasts in the end. This game is full of tricks by both players(Especially with the special abilities), mainly the great fell wind usage by JuanRing. As said, one could not figure out who would be the winner for a long time, this gives the game even more tension. Recommended the watch for everyone, especially if you're looking for a good Mordor/Angmar BO.


Mordor/CAtcH`Me^|TuN3r

Well, overall this was a very good performance by you with very few flaws at all. You showed that you know how to play with Mordor and how to counter the different units your opponent throws at you. In the very beginning you didn't look very good because you couldn't really hinder your opponent from raiding your base, but once your orc spam grew you could put him under big pressure because there were orcs everywhere on the map searching for resource buildings to destroy which forced your opponent into defense. When he was able to get the turn with his Wolf Riders you first seemed a little bit helpless but Gothmog arrived exactly at the right time to deal with them before dealing more damage to your forces. You however were still struggling a bit with them when they ran around heading for your resource buildings, I recommend recruiting the Mouth of Sauron then, I know that you were saving for a Fellbeast but getting the MoS earlier could have prevented your opponent from destroying your lvl2 resource building and a couple of lvl1 resource buildings. Bear that in mind the next time you get harrassed by cavalry units. Anyway, when you went into your opponent's base for the first time you lost Gothmog for the first time. I wouldn't say that it was a game turner but it definitely helped your opponent to recover and even gain a slight domination again, which lasted for a while. Your orc spam got weaker and it looked like you could lose this game again when your Fellbeast hit the field. It didn't only surprise your opponent but also saved your dominance again since it hit your opponent completely unprepared, that gave you some extra minutes to harrass him. You then harrassed him for a while and when you got out a second Fellbeast you could do so even better. Because you were cashfloating heavily you decided to buy the Witch-King of Angmar. Although I must say that he is my favourite hero and he can really fear your opponent, he was a mispurchase. You could have spent the money on so many other things like a siege works and upgrades/the Nazgūl Horde or fortress upgrades, basically everything. After losing that battle and a pretty big army you had to recover but yet didn't allow your opponent to attack you and when you finally recovered you were determined on winning and used a completely different strategy, moving forward with the Orc Archers as unit killers and the heroes as building killers really proved to be good and finally won you the game, although there was still resistance by your opponent.
Your micro was mostly good. While your unit micro was virtually flawless, you lost your heroes way to often when you could have saved them, especially Gothmog died two times near your opponent's fortress.
    Tips for improvement
  • Don't randomly turn your resource buildings, it only costs you time in the beginning you definitely don't have.
  • When struggling with cavalry always get the MoS to deal with them efficiently, he will make up for his cost pretty fast and will be your hero killer number one when at level 10.
Angmar/JR|JuanRing

Also a very good performance by you. Although you were mostly the person at defense you forced your opponent to rethink several times. Your initial rush was good, you were able to put your opponent under some good pressure and hurt his economy but you unfortunately couldn't continue like that due to a massive orc spam by your opponent that made you defending rather than attacking your opponent. You however reacted good by recruiting some wolf riders, these guys weren't only able to turn the tide of some battles into your favor but could also harrass your opponent's economy quite good, he was really suffering from them until Gothmog arrived. Although Gothmog prevented you from trampling all of your opponent's units, he couldn't prevent you from killing his resource buildings. You knew that and therefore started raided his economy and somehow got into the game again even with a slight advantage over your opponent. His orc spam seemed to become weaker and weaker and he didn't anymore harrass your economy very much until his first Fellbeast arrived. All over sudden you couldn't attack him anymore without big support of ranged units, this stopped your advancing and nearly costed you Hwaldar, but with good usage of the fell wind power and some axe throwers to scare away his Fellbeast you managed to save him. With his Fellbeast your opponent could again achieve an advantage over you. Teching up for Dark Dunedain was a good idea, these guys are really strong and can take on his Fellbeasts with ease. Although it took it's time for them to hit the field they yet arrived in time and scared your opponent's units away successfully. When it came to the probably biggest battle of this game you could really fool your opponent with the combined of Sorcerers, Dark Rangers and fell wind, really a very tricky combination. I marveled not bad when I saw how few units you lost considering what your opponent threw against you, even the Witch-King of Angmar died pretty fast. Sadly you didn't use these moments then to expand your economy, you never had many resource buildings and your pop cap was hardly any higher than 550 and I think your missing resource building spam is what finally did you in, you were never capable of outspamming your opponent and finally lost when he started his finishing move. I must admit though that although you were down to two HoKM you still tried to harrass your opponent.
Your micro wasn't any worse than CAtcH`Me^'s, sometimes it was even better because you microed your units so well and lost Karsh only once in the very end. Your PP usage was outstanding, not only fell wind was used to it's best but also the Gundabaud Orc summon could successfully win some battles for you.
    Tips for improvement
  • Expand your economy more, I saw that you could never reach a very big economy. Expanding all over the map does not only give you money, it also gives you a much better line of sight and especially the strong Mills with lots of HP can stop your opponent from advancing pretty good.
  • Although it might sound lame, towers do a good job against Fellbeast harrassing, simply build two or three at the outer edges of your territory(most likely at the fords) and upgrade them, you will be safe from his Fellbeast harrassing and also shorten the influence of them.
Overall Rating: 7

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This post has been edited by JuanRing: Jul 2 2007, 12:00 PM
#2FrosTzYy  Jul 2 2007, 08:44 AM -
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#4Yellow2Bellow  Jul 2 2007, 12:11 PM -
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Congratulations guys, well played and well deserved thumb.gif
#5`HyP-  Jul 3 2007, 00:16 AM -
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Sexy game! biggrin.gif
#6Kriese  Jul 3 2007, 22:18 PM -
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#7CatcH`Me^  Jul 4 2007, 14:26 PM -
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#8WhiteTree  Jul 4 2007, 16:39 PM -
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Medaled both of you btw smile.gif
#9Yellow2Bellow  Jul 4 2007, 18:43 PM -
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Awesome review Yellow2Bellow thumb.gif
#10JuanRing  Jul 4 2007, 19:36 PM -
lol - very nice review Yellow. Thank you.
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