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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:54:39 +0800, "Steven Ung"
<ste...@nodomainname.com> wrote:

>> Yeah well, rarely does an enemy army not consist of some kind of heavy
>> melee units...
>
>Yeah but what I'm trying to say is that we might need to change our 
>build/plan/strategy if we spot otherwise.

Haven't we?

>> Yeah well, the alternative is footmen, so I have to rush to Knights. I
>> can get to Castle pretty fast if I set my mind to it.  :P
>
>IMO, for pumping footmen, one barrack is enough but keep pumping non-stop. 
>Pop in the second barrack when you're teching to castle. By getting the 
>second barrack early, you're actually delaying the production of knights 
>(which is your main objective). Well, make your own judgement.

I'm doing no such thing. I'm pumping from one rax while I'm getting
the other, believe you me. And I'm also pumping non-stop as it is,
from two rax, and that's barely enough...
And I need to get the rax sooner or later anyway, before my castle
arrives, so I might as well get it earlier when it's useful to have it
(easier to protect against early-ish attacks when I can get
reinforcements faster).
With Orc, one barracks is enough, but with human, doing a melee build,
the footmen are just too weak.

>> And the point is that, with your build, the only sensible thing for me
>> to do is to go heavy melee. You're getting ranged and casters, if I
>> get casters as well all we've got for melee is the puny number of
>> footmen I'll be able to crank out of one barracks. Our front line will
>> get creamed, and out casters will be left standing around healing
>> themselves and generally looking very uncomfortable.
>
>Depends. The more you get creamed at the front line, the more skellys I can 
>generate. *Burst into evil laughter*

Well, you don't always make skellys...Usually you get fiends and
stats...

>> I've never doubted towers to be generally useful, but every time I've
>> built them, I've been called a total n00b by my allies. (In random
>> games...).
>
>In RT, it depends on where you are. Assuming it is a 3v3 and you're in the 
>middle cramped between 2 allies, building towers doesn't make sense as 
>you're normally not at risk of being attack. One to two towers won't hurt if 
>the enemy is just beside you.

I'm not worrying about being attacked if I have an ally meat shield...

>I thought by typing "Back" or "B" was enough of a signal to TP out. 
>Apparently not. So, next time I'll type "Hey Byers, can we just get the F*** 
>outta here? My units are getting squashed like mash potatoes in a grinder. 
>What?! You don't have TP? Shit! Well if you die, I die (like Titanic, you 
>jump I jump)"

*LOL*
That sounds more like it...

And anyway, it's not always as easy to retreat when your units (and
hero) are surrounded by enemy melee units, and half of them gets
killed by ranged attacks while fleeing.

>> Bah.
>
>Whilst upgrading to castle, you can get 2~4 priest or 1~2 sorcerer for slow 
>but not autocast. Cast slow on units that deserve it. (Slow is really good 
>vs Orcs).

Uh huh, so I'm supposed to buy 10 units and 4 upgrades from a single
building? We better have all day then... And getting several arcane
thingmagigs will interfere with my ability to crank out Knights...

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theobliviousbyers