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My brother and I played a game which... went a bit long. Several times where I felt I was badly losing, but then instead of losing... I eventually won? So we are sort of curious as to how both of us could improve our play, but also curious as to how my brother should have better capitalized on early...

Playing with my little brother, lost quite badly. I thiiiiiiiink this is luck (and say as much in the chatter), but I feel that blaming defeat on luck is the road perpetual mediocrity. My gameplan was to lure his saurians out into the open at dawn while distracting south to keep his units spread out...

I forget other people like to fight against Rebels... :oops: They also have some use against undead, though Wose are a particularly obvious target. It's a pretty typical case of faction balance meaning that some units are much more useful against some factions than others, which is fine by me. Also...

In my opinion, the Orcish Grunt is the second best unit in the game. For level 1 units, it is tied for the highest damage per gold ratio (excluding situational abilities like backstab), and easily has the most HP per gold spent. They have no type weaknesses, and reasonable defenses for infantry (and...

I think the weakest are berserkers. Sure, they do damage, but only 4 (IIRC) a hit, so they lose vs most melee units, and they can't defend against range. Even in melee, at the right ToD some archers can beat them up. Oh, and don't forget, they cost 19 gold! Of course, they are absolutely great unit...

the only spam that works is Orcish Grunt spamming. Mostly because they are the all-around best unit in the game, gold for gold. Wait, what? Seriously? I've found them to be good at flailing around helplessly for 2/3 of the day, but I didn't think that was a positive trait. They're cheap and have de...

I don't deal with SP stuff. But in Multiplayer, the only spam that works is Orcish Grunt spamming. Mostly because they are the all-around best unit in the game, gold for gold. You can also do it with Drake Fighters, on a large enough map, for a force entirely flying at 6 speed. Both of these require...

I've thought a lot about this as well.

Also don't forget having a retreating option - some place where you can have units go to have them escape the map.


...also this should probably be in a different section.

Gryphon Riders. Bats are bad enough, assassinating injured troops and requiring half an army to deal with, but when that kind of unit gets proper HP and some serious attack power, they become looming spectres of death. The potential to be hit that hard, at any time, at any point along the line...Re...

I play on Server 2 with my IRL friends, and I tend to save replays. I've been meaning to review and analyse the games, figure out my mistakes and theirs. I don't know about videos, those seem tricky, but I can post up a few replays and my analysis of them. Of course, I'm not actually the best player...

Scouts and other fast units, plus skirmishers: Use them. Right before your opponent is going to leave for the night (or day), get someone around to block off a unit or two. Sure, they can kill the scout, but then they would be wide open during the wrong time of day. Otherwise they have to run away, ...

SPeaking as a pure MP player, I dread seeing basic unit spam. In particular, I hate seeing masses of Spearmen, or masses of Orc Grunts. Mostly Spearmen. All those cool specialty units, there's an obvious way to counter them. But what do you do against a force of spearmen? And be cost effective, of c...

Clubs have to do with the net. If you stab or slash your net, you're going to need a new net. Thus clubbing things inside your net. Of course, this is all IRL stuff, and WINR is a thing. I mostly use fish as stalling blocks to ZoC people from streams that are otherwise flat. Sometimes they even kill...

footpads ARE fodders. they have a really good movement and agility.Even if they have also weaker resistances than other humans 3 footpads can kill a skeletons without getting much damage. But they are really luck based. Description is really fitting.It says to use them only to run around and if you...

I.e., are there advantages to attacking first that outweigh the disadvantages of the night attack? No, attacking first doesn't have any inherent advantages or disadvantages unless weapon specials like charge or berserk are involved. If you need to kill the enemy quickly and/or you don't mind your u...