war3 tips for teh gray

[oNCe]

in our 2v2 you did very well for someone who hasnt played many games..

mostly jus basic control tips will help you greatly i believe.. for example..

the most pro players hotkey everything..

i save 1 2 and 3 for groups and 4-0 for buildings
1=heros +fiends/ghouls
2=statues/destroyers
3=banshee/necro
4=crypt
5=slaughterhouse
6= GY
7=Alter
8=Temple
9=Citadel

basically the reason for hotkeying everything is so you can ALWAYS focus on battles while managing your base..

while in a battle i am managing base by clicking 4 5 and 8 and pumping units in between microing my army

tip2: keep your heros alive.. treat a hero as an EQ character.. as they are the most powerful units in game and losing 1 is not only costly.. but will make you lose game by falling behind your enemy in lvls..

simple way to do this.. if a hero is getting FF'd (focus fired), then target him.. and pull him behind your units.. dance him around in circles (around your army) so your other units atk enemy units while they are chasing your hero) kind of like kiting..

tip3: creeps

creeps are dumb.. if you lose 1 unit vs a creep you lost 1 too many.. use wolves to take dmg.. if a grunt takes dmg.. target it and move him out of melee range for a second.. then let the creep atk other unit.. let summons take dmg over all other.. when the wolf/mirror image gets low, send it to enemy base to scout


the rest of the game is jus knowing when to atk, when to port, and what counters what.. that takes some time~

anyway gg today i had fun ;D

edit- almost forgot: use TAB.. it is key i use most possibly.. tabbing between units in a group lets you micro a lot faster

once you get comfortable with control groups.. and basic micro then the rest is self taught.. jus comes with experience of playing

[GrayRage]

That game was insane :p Did you think we were gonna win? It kept goin back and forth...back and forth :)

All i know if everytime i had only my hero left, u still had an army fighting them. That fugger with the necroes was annoying. U know they ended up destroying my town at the end...but it cost them game cause we destroyed the other guys town at the same time hehe. I guess the necro ran outa gold or something :) I am gonna watch the replay right now.

Brian, u shoulda seen this fight :) By the way...stuff me and brian need to do better:

Once marked spots where we were to meet and attack. We always stayed together...and ran if it was 2 on1. we always foght together tho. My grunts up front tankin and his spiders in back (until my grunts got killed ;p)

[oNCe]

when they killed my townhall i got scared :P

but we countered and killed his, tho he was still getting gold.. all my aco's were dead so i had to use the units i had for the whole game..

in 1 battle my DK gained 2-3lvls so i knew we had won lol..
lvl 5dk > all other races heros.. coilx3 = death to any int/agi hero..

was a close game :P

also if you go grunt its important to get tier2 faster.. as the +hp/atk upgrade is very key

[Toaday]

i wanna play with other sucky people :(

where do i sign up ;)

[GrayRage]

Let's just call the warcraft channel on TS a meeting place...then we can play some 2 on 2s or 4 on 4s from there :)

The only trouble is for some reason this morning TS won;t let me on even tho i see other people on it from the front page :( Dunno whats up with that...my connection is the same as always....shitty :( (on my wirless)

[Arkons]

ewww someone is taking war3 tips from once...


btw what channel are you guys hangning out in and what server?


also one additional thing to what once said... I like to have an extra hotkey for all ghouls + heros to surround and pk heros quicky... Sleep, surround and destroy, if you looked at my old # of heros killed it was like somewhere around an average of 8 a game. GL