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any that do this?

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Strategy & Replays / beating bloodlust
« on: March 05, 2019, 01:39:01 PM »
I disagree that the two races are pretty equal and have their own strengths and weaknesses. Pretty much one word does humans in-bloodlust. Here's a few strategies I've heard to try to beat it, not sure any of them really work well.

1. Cast slow on them............Ok, now they only do 1.5 more damage instead of 3x the damage if fully upgraded, still in favor of orcs.

2, Cast Flame shield on a paladin/paladins attacking the BL'd Ogre Mages, or cast flame shield on the ogres when they sit outside before they attack and bloodlust each other. The first one, not sure, plus flameshield also damages YOUR units, you don't want several flameshielded paladins attacking the ogres, while also damaging each other. The second one, not sure.

3. Polymorph the Ogre Mages- Ok........gonna need lots of mages fully charged with mana, maybe too many for it to be feasible.

4. Blizzard the Ogre Mages- Sure, just gonna need them to stand still long enough for you to do it, if your paladins are fighting them you'll probably hit them as well.

5. Have the paladins backed up with archers to hit the Ogres from behind. Not sure about this, how does it work? Some people have told me they only produce archers for fighting against Dragons and Griffins, not sure how this would work.

6. Outnumber the Ogre Mages with more paladins. Basically build more barracks then your opponent has. Still, since the Ogre Mages do three times the damage of paladins, you're going to need 3 times the barracks!

7. Use Griffins to hit Ogre Mages- seems good in that the OM's can't attack the Griffins, just wonder if they could kill them fast enough

8. Use dwarf demolition teams to attack the Ogre-Mages, and by the way- do goblin sappers do more damage when they explode if they are bloodlusted?

What about combining some of these. Perhaps using strategies 1+2+4 might turn the tide in your favor, or maybe not.

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Strategy & Replays / Old fashioned early grunt rush
« on: March 05, 2019, 01:27:03 PM »
Here was a strategy I used to use.

1. town hall
2. farm
3. blacksmith
4. 2nd peon
5. 2nd peon farm, constantly builds farms
6. 3rd peon barracks
7. 4th peon barracks
8. For the next wave of peons, all on gold, about until the fifteenth.

9. when done with blacksmith, upgrade weapons first, then the first
shield upgrade, 2nd shield upgrade, 2nd weapons upgrade

10. When the first barracks is done, train grunts in it, have the first
grunt scout and the second grunt from the other barracks(it gets done
shortly after the first) scout as well

11. When you find the enemy, attack with your upgraded grunts, if they
are upgraded and your opponents aren't then you will win pretty easy.

Unless...........he's walled in his hall with farms and towers, what you could/should do in that case is place your own towers in range of the farms, but out of range of his towers.

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General Discussion / Longtime Warcraft 2 player playing again
« on: February 27, 2019, 02:31:32 AM »
I played Warcraft 2 back on Kali on Windows 95 in 1996, and later on Battle net with the Battlenet version. What I'm really hoping for is now a better computer AI is available that can play as well/near to a human player, as was not the case back then, and some mods would also be useful for balancing the game out, such as the fact that orcs are totally defenseless against unholy armor. That there are useless spells such as animate dead/whirlwind/fireball and that flame shield doesn't protect well from a bloodlusted ogre mage/that orcs are obviously way more powerful than humans.

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