Tell me those who are going to mass CAs. How can you mass those CA, when they each cost 100W?
So you try to mass them to say 20 CA, so that`s what 2000W. Are you willin to pay for that much resources when the eggy isn`t wood depended at all, meanin that there won`t be much wood collecting going on??
30 Hoplites will destroy a TC. Actually 20 Hoplites can destroy a TC. Plus with couple of more upgrades at heroic, I don`t think you can stand up to that wit your 20 CA which you have spent so much on. I can just make a peltast group since I got the extra pop, that you just lost because you thought that your camel+CA combo would win for sure.
When you are doing a combo, don`t be alwayz sure that you are going to win with it. Also, just because I`m a rook, that don`t mean that I can`t micro-manage. HOw do you know, maybe I CAN micro-manage better than you!! Could happen, or it has been happenin for some time and you didn`t know it. Just because you were too noobish, when you first started the game don`t mean, rest of us are like that.(this comment for anyone who thinks noobs are bad players
Quoted from Elendil_King:
Why reinforce with Hoplites? The eggy guy will see your peltast and try to defend his CA with camels or slingers. If you go for a general purpose unit like the hoplite, you can beat both camels and slingers.
The thing is, Peltasts own both CA and slingers. I`m sure you have never seen a peltast destroy a slinger but trust me, it is pretty nasty. Plus those peltasts helps you ease up on the Hoplites, you shouldn`t make one kind of unit when you are facing a combo. You will most likely to get beaten by it(exception to RC VS Hipp+Toxotes, or Hoplites/Ulfsarks VS spears+slingers)
Hoplites should be your meatshield(main army), and the peltasts must be ur supplementary army which will take care of eggies CAs/slingers.
Quoted from Holy_Punk:
Even Zeus Hops cannot catch CA. They can stand up to it well and will win, but adding some Hipps will make things better.
I agree with Holy Punk about adding some hipps addition to ur hoplites.
Quoted from NIB:
To sum up, if you cant micro, just mass hoplites and you will be fine. If you can micro go for peltast+hoplites.
Just because you can`t micro, it doesn`t mean you shouldn`t try not to. If you can`t micro then you better learn how to micro if you want to get better at this game.
Quoted from Holy_Punk:
Psychologically pressure opponent - three kinds of units make him feel you are powerful (what would scare you more, pure Hops or Hops with Tox?).
There are exceptions to that actually. If he/she knows how powerful Zeus` Hoplites then I`m sure the enemy will be scared as hell.
Also if your opponent sees three kinds of units, he might think that, you are overusing your resources and you will collapse if he hits your supply lines. At most cases, he will win, because you used up all your resources on units and not upgrades to make the ones better than they already are.
[This message has been edited by LoneWolf1 (edited 08-14-2003 @ 01:19 AM).]