31 Days of Warcraft III Stretegy

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I played this game online in the past, but stopped after losing every battle for several days straight. The single-player campaign was enough to get me familiar with the units, but it was clear that I didn't have the skills to compete -- nor the inclination to build those skills. I set the game aside and got busy with other things, and several years went by, but one day I was surprised to discover that the urge to play it had returned.

Since I'm older now, I can't do a marathon immersive gaming session like the ones I did years ago, but I can still get a few good chunks of time here and there. I want to see what I've missed, and I probably also want to prove to myself that I'm still up to the challenge. Could I really become a competent player, or is the new generation of games and gamers just too much for me to handle?

This is a log of the tactics I learned, and the skills I developed.

(My army getting blasted apart by mortar fire, behind a line of Knights. Sucks to be me.)

Comments

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

this was an excellent read, thanks for writing/posting.

My favorite strategy in single player, which probably doesn't work on battlenet, was to have an undead army, abominations on key 1, spider-things on key 2, and a supporting unit of necromancers and catapults on 3, to provide a meat shield of skeleton warriors/mages.

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Hrmmm not bad! But abominations are hard to tech up to ... how did you avoid being slaughtered early in the game?

[banjomensch.livejournal.com]

heavy reliance on towers. And that in single player, things are kinda easy, even on hard.

[shinkagakusha.livejournal.com]

Why don't you ever use Hippogryph Riders? They are awesome; think of it as having more mobile archers with more hitpoints.

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They're useful only in specific situations, usually when you want to mount and then dismount them repeatedly in order to move the archers around defenses or protect them in battle. If the Hippogryphs could still use their attack while the Archers rode them, they would be very useful ... but that ain't so, and that pisses me off.

Also, in FFA games, by the time you have the structures and the tech to create them, the other players have some nasty options for anti-air. In the meantime, why spend the money on one flying archer, when for almost the same cash, you can create two?