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Team Goals2009-04-02 00:00:00As a team, there are various goals you should focus on: ScoutFind the enemy towns. Find out what races the players have chosen and where each player is located. Watch for expansions and kill them when they come up. Predict where the enemy will expand and keep watching those areas for enemy Town Halls. Stick together!In team games, it's important to stick together and fight together with your allies. Often this simple strategy can win the game against players that do not work well with each other. For example, in a 3 vs. 3 game, 3 team members stick together and launch an attack. On the opposing side, their team only has 2 of the players present to face the first 3 players. The 3 players easily kill the 2 players' armies then only have one player's army left to face. The rest of the game involves the 3 players mopping up the enemy players since there is only one army to defend. The whole game could be determined by that one battle where one of the teams didn't have all of their members present. If not all of the team is there, run until you can group up together. Do not engage if you are clearly outnumbered. Plan and announce your attacks. Defend your allies' towns and e...
Expand for each Team member2009-04-02 00:00:00You should work on getting expansions for each Team member. Work together to clear extra Gold Mines of Creeps. If the Gold Mine is surrounded by wood, use wood clearing options to help clear room for an expansion for your teammate if they need help. Keep in mind that their efficient economy also helps you, so help them out if they need it. Expansions can often determine who wins the game. If you don't have enough money to upgrade and build additional units it's usually the end for you. However, you do not need expansions if you can prevent the enemy from expanding and can beat the enemy with just one Gold Mine. On some maps the Gold Mines are smaller so you will have to expand earlier. Defend your expansion when attacked. You can help delay the enemy by building towers around your expansion. Don't build too many however because they can be killed with Siege U...
Dropped Allies2009-04-02 00:00:00If your Ally drops, you can now control their units and buildings including using their resources and buildings to create new units. The remaining team members should all help control that dropped player's town. Hold down alt to select the dropped players units among your own or double click on them. select their unit producing buildings and right-click on your Hero. This will instruct their units to travel to your Hero after they are created. Assign unit producing buildings to hot keys and press them every so often to train new troops just in case there is money built up. Using those methods you can come close to making up for that player's loss to the game, especially vs lesser players. Very...
Have a Clue2009-04-02 00:00:00The worst teammates are those that do not have a clue what is going on in the game. They just sit in their village building and resource gathering ignorant about what is going on in the game around them. It is your responsibility to either ask what the enemy and your teammates are doing, or go see for yourself with scouting units. Don't be one of those players that are living in the dark. They are the worst teammates you can have. A good teammate knows what is going on and what to do about it. If you are clearly not ready to be a good teammate perhaps you should practice in single player or with computer players as allies in custom games.Town Portal ScrollsUse your Town Portal Scroll to save your ally's town. Use your Town Portal Scroll to teleport to a friendly ally to meet up with them to go attack an enemy. Learn more. Try to buy another Town Portal Scroll after using up your free one. Remember you can now AIM where your Town Portal Scroll sends you so aim at the ideal location to fight the enemy. Melee teleporters should position themselves at the front of the action. Coordinate AttacksTeam games are about teaming up, letting your teammates fight the rest of the enemy team. Make plans to gather your f...
Don't Rely On Your Teammates For All Information2009-04-02 00:00:00Teammates will not always let you know what they or the enemy is up to. If you see your teammate is lacking in recon, step in and do the recon yourself. Your Teammates are youHelp your teammate as if they are yourself. Do not be cheap when sending reinforcements to your ally by holding back because you want to save them for yourself. Typically good teams will send all their units to save a town if the entire enemy team is attacking it. If only a few enemy players are attacking a town you can send less allied players to save the town. Don't be afraid to use Town Portal ScrollsDon't ignore attacks just becaus...
Large Scale Battles2009-04-02 00:00:00Large scale battles can be very confusing and messy. In those situations it is best to control your Hero. Command your normal units to attack and take control of the Hero. cast the Hero's spells and make sure it stays alive. When Heroes are using Auras, they can be very effective in helping the normal troops fight. So, it is important to keep them alive. Use Focused FireCommand all of your units (especially if they are ranged units) to attack one enemy, finish it off, then move on to the next unit. This can win you many battles against players that don't use focused fire. If the enemy notices you are targeting specific units and attempts to run them away, don't chase, pick a different unit to attack. Town Destroyed?Ask to borrow some resources to rebuild it. If you can't rebuild, ask for your allies to share unit control, so you can help them better control their units. Stay in the game and help! Try to get a worker out of ...
FFA TIPS2009-04-02 00:00:001) Scout all players before selecting a target. Picking the right target to attack is perhaps the most important part of winning the game. Picking the right target will always be better than randomly attacking whoever you bump into. Generally look for the stronger players, or those who are gathering the most resources (even look for the other players who actively scout the map). Scouting will also let you know what units to build in order to kill your target. I tend to scout the entire map every few minutes, the player who represents your largest threat will change from time to time. Don't scout once, and then assume nothing changed. If you scout and see something, keep it to yourself. Giving away info on what every player in the game is up to only draws attention to yourself. 2) Look for players who are likely to attack you. This might be because they don't do their own scouting. They might be new to FFAs and they do not understand rule #1. This means once the player sees you, they will focus on you until one of you is dead. Take care of players who target you directly and try to stay away from "agroing...
FFA TIPS 3__52009-04-02 00:00:003) Watch your upkeep. In solo, it's a good idea to go to into high upkeep and win due to the number of units. Be very careful in FFA's with high upkeep. While going to 100 units and killing all the other players tends to work on the low end of the FFA ladder, it doesn't work vs. good FFA players. If you stay in high upkeep you will run out of gold. FFA games can last an hour or longer, and you need to plan on having resources for the length of the game. Usually if a player stays in high upkeep and if they lose their army and expansion they will not come back from the game. Spending time at 80 food + multiple expansions will give you more gold, which will give you more options during those times where you get attacked by multiple players at the same time (it happens to us all, so its just a matter of being ready for it). Go t...
FFA TIPS 6_82009-04-02 00:00:006) Build the "right units", learn what units to make for each type of player. If you see a Night elf player going for Chimaeras and Hippogryphs, then build the correct army and kill the Night elf player. Then figure out your next target and what units to make next. Kill your own unneeded units and then create your next "ideal" army. I have round 5 or 6 "army templates". I use a different template based on who I'm fighting. It's better to plan your entire army vs. a single player (who should be your largest threat). With the right army + good micro your 80 food army will kill their 100 food army. You will might need to deal with a 2nd army which might be made of units which is a counter to your own army. Good scouting and a few towers can buy you some time to allow you to switch to the correct units. This is tied back to rules #1 and #2 and predicting who and when you will be attacked. If you are caught off guard by another player then it's your own fault. 7) It's important to adapt. One of the most useful items in FFA g...
FFA TIPS 9_122009-04-02 00:00:009) Creep aggressively, but stay out of sight. Creeps tend to run out pretty quickly in FFAs, so get what you can quickly. Sometimes its better to stay away from the center as there will be 3 or 4 armies all trying to creep jack each other. If you spend time getting the creeps around the edges you should end up with MORE creeps than the other players. Sometimes you just need to watch how each map is creeped by players. 10) If you have a lone unit or hero that's being chased, run the unit to third player's base. For those players who don't scout, they will "see" this base for the first time. You might get lucky and the player will start to target the other base. This is one way you can take advantage of your scouting + the lack of scouting from other players. 11) Always plan on 3 heroes. FFA games go long an...
