I have been coming to this site for about a week now, and as many of you have seen, I have been asking quite a few questions to understand the gaming mechanics.

While I don't feel it my place to give advice to other new players like myself, I wanted to add this comment. I had the pleasure of speaking with LOD and savetuba. And they answered a good amount of my questions. But more importantly I was able to play them in a couple of Novice Battle games.

In my first 2500 point duel against LOD, it was almost a comedy of errors, as I have never used any of the higher units until then <because beginner games don't last long enough>. Not knowing the general layout of the map put me at a significant disadvantage. But the purpose of this was mostly to get a feel for the units and deal with tactical measures. I wasn't concerned about winning or losing... which is good because I lost badly... My plan was to put a pair of balista in some towers <I assumed the towers were already under my control, so I didn't get a Comms... hehe> And with most of my Marksmen hold the entrance between the towers.... but at the same time, to seen some HC and Falc's through the Snow and flank in behind him.

This appeared all good and according to plan as I took out some Spearmen of his he was using as expendable scouts. I started my Falc's and HC through the snow <with Defense Mode on... mistake number 1>. as my first Falc was out the edge of southern snow.. I moved it one space to close to one of his marksmen who could see it out of the cornor of it's eye.... I quickly realized that I would not be succusfully flanking him in this game. So I decided to use my other melee units <still in the snow> to rush straight at where his marksmen were placed just barely north of his towers. Imagine my surprise <read: Dismay> to find that had Mountains covering that flank... so my melee struggled to get close to anything of use and his Marksmen and Knights had a nice Falc-on-a-Stic. It was only a matter of time before before his knights finished off my ballistae and remaing marksmen.

While my tactic would have prevailed much better if I had gone the route of the swamp... I was impressed with LOD's use of Spearmen and Knights to adequatly make it near impossible to get near his marksmen. Well Played.

Shortly after he went to bed, savetupa came into the Web Chat with me, and we decided to play a Battle game. I didn't know it in the beginning but he would be using his demonic powers against me. In this 2500 point duel, I went with 2 sets of knights, 3 sets of spearmen and the rest Marksmen. Having learning from my duel with LOD, I opted to send most of my forces southwest through the swamps. And I would use one Knight and Spearmen <normal mode> as bate to try to get him to come though my tower area.

I spotted Neehts near my towers as well as in the swamp. I quickly shot them down, and I didn't believe he knew that most of my forces were over by the swamp... that was until I moved a unit of marksmen near the edge of the map, only to behold in horror a Demi-God. Having only perused over the Demonic units once, the only thing I knew was that it was the Demon's toughest creature, I failed to remember that they could fly... <big mistake> savetuba wasn't kidding when he told me the Demi-god would take out half my army. Next thing I know he the Demi-god flys in the middle of my Marksmen, and eats a snack, while the rest of my Marksmen flee while they can.

It took most of my focus fireing from my Marksmen to finally whittle down the demi-god unit. When next thing I know, I have some Demon-Lords coming up though my two towers. 1 of my 2 sets of knights is able to do some damage, but he takes a beating in the process. My spearmen were order to try to surround a Marksmen unit only for me to find out that you can attack diagnornally if it is north to south.... you just can't do i

Hey Noob, you've double posted this topic.What're you going to do about it.




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lol, just close it so tarim can't be any more slanderous than he usually is...

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