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.

[garote]

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.