Expansions_tags Articles About Games
Team Goals2009-04-02 00:00:00much faster. Denying enemy expansionsIf the enemy expands to additional Gold Mines, they will have more money available to upgrade and build troops. Always assume the enemy is going to try to expand. Watch Gold Mines near the enemy base especially as well as scouting all of the other mines from time to time. When you see an expansion, attack it.
Expansions are typically easier to kill than main town...
Expand for each Team member2009-04-02 00:00:00so 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 G...
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 ...
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 because...
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 to...
FFA players who build 0 towers at their expansions can be taken advantage of2009-04-02 00:00:00. Players who don't build any base defenses will generally stock up on TP scrolls as a way to compensate. The idea is to do split force attacks (this works great in Arrange Team games but there you are splitting players not player forces). Most players will NEVER split their force as it's not something many players have ever practiced with. So with your normal scouting lets say you find 2 unguarded expansions owned by the same player (or even one expansion + the player's main base). Make sure the two targets are not close together and send a few units to the first target to kill peons (don't send your heroes, your heroes will get xp regardless of where they are at as long as no hero is within range of what is being killed). The key here is to attack both targets at the same time (or ...
