drgnfly
Mortal
posted 27 September 2004 11:12 PM
EDT (US)
3 / 15
A tip on Dwarven mine. The later in the game you use the power the more gold you get. Since there are usually plenty of gold mines out and about in the early half of the game, I would hold onto dwarven mine until late heroic, or mythic before using it. That extra gold gomes in handy if properly managed.
Quircus
Mortal
posted 28 September 2004 11:55 AM
EDT (US)
5 / 15
Trouble is, if you are going to rush or whatever, you wont get into Mythic. I'd use it if you know you're going to win as long as you have enough resources to pump units, and there is not much accessable gold left.
Quircus
Mortal
posted 28 September 2004 12:44 PM
EDT (US)
7 / 15
All-Dwarf is bad. Thor Dwarves have +25% Wood and Gold Gather Rates, but their Wood Gathering and Farming Rates are still lower than Gatherers (moreso with Wood), and so will affect you especially late-game.
harr
Mortal
posted 28 September 2004 12:50 PM
EDT (US)
8 / 15
Isn't the diffece something like 8% slower wood gathering (you say that the farming difference is less), so although you might want to phase in villagers later in the game dwarves will do fine in the early game when you need the food for advancing.
crocin
Mortal
posted 29 September 2004 11:18 AM
EDT (US)
9 / 15
well get the dwarves on wood too or may be mix them with gatherers.I m a 1750+ vanilla player & many top thor players have the dwarf:gaterer ratio 1:1 ie exactly equal.
Got it.If not check the 1900++ players.
pete722
Mortal
posted 29 September 2004 01:49 PM
EDT (US)
10 / 15
i used to be 18++ with thor, not anymore, but now i relatively suck =(
but i tend to put dwarfs on wood early on, as thor gets dwarfs for cheapers, but then as you get more econ ups, start to get more gatherers on wood, also i tend to go slighty heavy gold, so if food for gatherers becomes a problem, i have a little back up gold to use.
WrathofAtlantis
Mortal
posted 01 October 2004 05:21 PM
EDT (US)
13 / 15
I also like to play as Thor, however, I mostly use the dwarves to gather gold (Thor not only improve dwarves food and wood gathering, but gold as well) and use Gatherers on gathering wood and food.
Fazy
Mortal
posted 02 October 2004 05:14 AM
EDT (US)
14 / 15
I'm sure thor doesn't improve dwarf gold gather rate.