The1337JC
Mortal
posted 21 September 2008 07:43 AM
EDT (US)
34 / 122
I just won a game by Wonder incidentally... heh.
After I hit heroic I noticed that he wasn't really building much of an army so I went straight to Mythic with barely a handful of CAs of my own. We both had the same idea so we never really fought until we were both Mythic and pretty much full upgrades. I thought it made a lot of sense to spam Migdols, like 10 of em and then just AQ em into his base but it proved harder than I thought and he kept me fighting for a long time without really doing any damage.
Since I was on the offensive I thought it was pretty safe to build a titan gate. My macro was pretty poor and I just couldnt free up enough food to prevent his squad of catapults from ruining my gate as it neared 90% complete @_@
Also, he was able to push better than me. Rather than just spam units he was much better at using his catapults to destroy my Migdols while we fought. The economies were ruthless by now though, both of us basically couldnt run out of resources if we tried. I kept replacing my migdols. In the end I just thought that neither of us were really good enough to push through the mountain of crap we both were able to produce so I simply built a wonder and spammed walls on every inch of my side of the map (much to the chagrin of my trade camels :P). Kept my Migdols on AQ and just waited.
I think the guy played better than me and I told as much. But hey, that Play to Win thing speaks the truth, I did what it took to win, even though he played better, and I won.
The1337JC
Mortal
posted 21 September 2008 11:39 AM
EDT (US)
36 / 122
On watching the replay, the only reason I missed the catapults is because he teleported them up with Shifting Sands... I definitely would have seen them otherwise. Took like 10 seconds to ruin my gate...
Only thing I could have done to stop that would be monuments and better gate position, I don't feel so bad about losing the gate now, it was a really smart move from him.
I think the game would have been easier if I hadn't neglected mason upgrades (completely forgot). I seen in some replays people are making walls and putting catapults behind them, seems like a really good way to lay siege, but I'm not sure that would have helped me much in this game.
Arus_II
Mortal
posted 29 September 2008 11:35 AM
EDT (US)
48 / 122
well.. That is most of the time a villie/ox cart, and in the beginning you dont want to sacrifice even 1 villie to disable his GP.
i r n00b
Banned
posted 29 September 2008 04:54 PM
EDT (US)
49 / 122
If losing, make wonder and mass building.
Arus_II
Mortal
posted 30 September 2008 00:57 AM
EDT (US)
50 / 122
siege with engineers rape all buildings if you mass them when you re winning.
marcus owns all
Mortal
posted 07 October 2008 07:48 PM
EDT (US)
59 / 122
Everyone in these forums always recommend recorded games. I absolutely agree with you all; they sound great. But is there any way i could possibly download some Mac vanilla (that means non-titans expansion, right?) recs from anywhere? Any sites you know that I could use? Coz I'm not really getting much better as it is. Thanks.