posted 06-28-09 03:46 PM
EDT (US)
16 / 16
oh cmm'on
the moment you got those 3 towers so early you lost the game.
its a waste of money.
what you suggest is just camping :S
now if im vs a nubie camper i just expand, creep the whole map, etc. Than i just win with siege,berzerkers, upgrades since he made a billion towers, while i was expanding.
you can easily defend without those towers
correction: more easily, extra troops > towers.
Towers is when you are at command point limit and got louds of cash. Yo may than consider putting towers at the fords etc.
However most dont do this since its considered very lame.
As elves you can defend quite easily, no need for towers.
When i play elves, wel played, i have not played bfme2 for 3 weeks now :P, i go MT, rax, LA > creep with builder the troll or wargs, LA > creep with other builder, Mith/LA/MT.
or soemthing like that.
The creeping gives you a lot of money, wic wich you buy a hero and a 2nd rax/ stables (once you made 4 MT's). And get more army/ preserve troops, take ins and go harass enemy, etc.
Now im in quit a strong position.
But if we take your strat. You will be stuck almost without any money, or troops, sitting in your base, not able to expand since your enemy's army > yours.
With any other army i go or RB, RB, rax and while buildign the rax another rb. And than rush with a swordmen-unit. Getting as a 2nd unit for defense an archer-unit or antoher swordmen-unit. (by blocking the enemy unit of from the rb, i can defend it quite well, and after that this unit can, unlike the archer, be used for own harassment.
Now getting this 2nd unit, is way more usefull than getting a tower instead, its mobile, it can be used to defend all rb's, and for offensive actions, and it cost basicly the same. To defend those 3 rbs you will need to get like 3 towers? Well, thats what you suggested...
It will criple you, spending all that money so early that can be used for more units, rb's.
Now i undertand you have problems with defending. Thats why you go build towers.
Now i give you some tips, its all kinda basic knowledge, but i think you somehow stil lack it...
1. Build your first 2 or even 3 rb's withing fortress fire,
this will help defending them alot. If you want to place your first 2 rb's completly under fortressfire at the highest percentage you must place them as close as you can to the fort at 97%. Now still can one part of the rb still be attacked. At least so its with the furnace. If you look at it you see that at one pojt it sticks out, at the other side its round. So what you do is you rotate your furnace so that the stiching out side is towards your fortress. This will place your rb completly under fortress fire.
Also 97% gives as much money as 100% i think.
2. Hide your rb's. Once you build your first 3 close to fortress, so easy to defend and at least 2 under fortress fire, you may want to hide your rb's. Place them in corners etc.
Dont place them where the enemy's units wil likely walk, like in the middle of a ford.
Don't place them however lower than 70%.
3. You may also choose to put all your rb's very close togheter, near your fortress, or an inn spamming units, at lower %. This makes it much easier to defend them.
4. Place your archers at rb's where you expect the enemy to go harass, so you dont have to walk all the way to them.
5. Delete your rb's when you can't save them so you get some cash back, remember to always rebuild your rb's almost emediately after the treath is gone.
6. When your defending wiht a swordmen, place it between the rb and the offensive enemy unit, remember that the enemy unit has to walk way further to get around your unit, than your unit to block the enemy unit from reachin your rb,
so unless the enmy unit is alor faster than yours, you can prevent them form reaching your rb with a litlly bit of micro.
7. When you dont block the enmy of with your sowrdmen, that the enmy will most likely get it down, a far better unit for stopping harasment is cavalary. When the enmy unit is clumped around your rb you just run arou nd your rb and trample them, so preventing them form attacking your rb.
Hope this will help you.
Oh and since we where talking about axe trhowers, i think you must be pretty dumb (sorry to say this but its true) t think im talking about attack trolls....
p.s rb= recource building