3x3 game with : 3 Rohan vs 2 Isengard + 1 Dwarves
Disclaimer: it was a game I played before I went on vacation, i.e. WITHOUT 4.1.1. It may not work properly.
Outcome of the game (don't click if you don't want to get spoiled)
Epic comeback from my team!
Mordor (Woppader) and Isengard (Mogat) and Gondor (Caun) and Gondor (Photti)
VS. Isengard (Eorl175) and Rohan (3_finger) and Gondor (XB Jimpack) and Mordor (me)
Very nice game. We got crushed but there ain't anything to be mad about: they played very well.
Erebor(I see you) Ered Luin(DarkRadek) and Isengard(me)
This match demonstrates just how insanely strong the Ered Luin heroes are late game, and how insanely strong an Isengard army is once its upgraded. It also demonstrates my point that no army can kill Isengard once they have their army upgraded and heroes leveled up. Grima's ability to make enemy heroes do 0 damage is especially useful against Dwarves.
I manage to win only because of brute force and sheer numbers, by constantly pumping out Berserkers and Ballistas, keeping the pressure on non-stop. Essentially, I kill him economically. Unfortunately I see you crashed midway through the game, and at that point its just me against DarkRadek.
Players are Gondor(me), Mordor(Sawman), Rohan(DarkRadek), and Isengard(Draco10000).
Most of the game was back and forth, although our enemies had more map control. Me and Sawman manage to turn things around near the breaking point, because I get an upgraded army and army of the dead, really epic finish. Unfortunately Draco crashes after this, but the match continues till the end, radek doesn't leave.
Players:
Gondor (Skeeverboy)
Mordor (Hypnotix)
He says I'm a noob, because I don't let him time to build something :D
Rohan(me) Mordor(King Dain) Isengard(Sawman) and Isengard(DarkRadek)
VS
Ered Luin(VAINORD) Isengard(Isil) Mordor(NightMerry) and Erebor(Limbo)
Things were looking very grim for my team, because the teams are stacked so badly for the enemies with 2 dwarves and an isen, but then we get the ring and turn it around in an epic battle for control of the middle. Unfortunately, the enemy team gets salty once Erebor is defeated because we found the ring, and decide to ragequit before we could finish the match.
Gondor Mordor Isengard VS. Gondor Mordor Isengard
Nice match. Our Gondor left early on but we managed to win because of the impressive duo Isengard+Mordor
Dwarves VS. Mordor VS. Gondor VS. Dwarves
One of the best game I've ever played, about 1h30 minutes long. A status quo happened quite fast between Mordor, Gondor and Dwarves which lead to epic battles. Every power was used and every hero was on the battlefield. There is even a ring hero in the end.
That was really nice game, I watched that replay without fast forward option. :P
Simple proof that Mordor is strongest in late game.
Any way, in my opinion that Erebor player was best. Maybe lack of siege weapons from Erebor was reason of defeat for dwarves. Simple in replay they tried to counter attack Mordor, but they couldn't do anything near that Tol-in-Gaurhoth, they tried to destroy that building but no success. Because of that I think they needed siege weapons in that situation. That was breaking point in this match in my opinion. :)
Again I must say, very nice replay in general Adrigabbro! :)
Keep uploading similar stuff. :)
FFA on Mirkwood
Dwarves VS. Mordor VS. Gondor VS. Dwarves
One of the best game I've ever played, about 1h30 minutes long. A status quo happened quite fast between Mordor, Gondor and Dwarves which lead to epic battles. Every power was used and every hero was on the battlefield. There is even a ring hero in the end.
My comment contains SPOILER in term of winner of this match. :) :P
That was really nice game, I watched that replay without fast forward option. :P
Simple proof that Mordor is strongest in late game.
Any way, in my opinion that Erebor player was best. Maybe lack of siege weapons from Erebor was reason of defeat for dwarves. Simple in replay they tried to counter attack Mordor, but they couldn't do anything near that Tol-in-Gaurhoth, they tried to destroy that building but no success. Because of that I think they needed siege weapons in that situation. That was breaking point in this match in my opinion. :)
Again I must say, very nice replay in general Adrigabbro! :)
Keep uploading similar stuff. :)
My answer:
Well, thanks because I was the Erebor player. :D
It's true some more siege weapons would have helped me, but I think I definitely lost the game when I stopped expanding and building anew my destroyed mines. At some point I had around 900 CP available...
Anyway, I really appreciate your comment, thank you. ;) I'll upload new replays as soon as I get rid of some Tunngle issues. :-|
There were some epic ''WTF'' moments as well for me, like:
1. The double Last March of the Ents finish on Kryptik. So sudden and so epic. I expected 1, but not 2.
2. Haman's wall of Border Sentries equipped with Westfold Spear Throwers. The Great Wall of Ch..Rohan haha!
3. Level 10 Ferny killing Gamling in the early game after having being killed himself. Ferny be like: ''Gamling, do you even lift bruh?''
4. Rohan completely dominating the early and mid-game engagements. Very nice to see Rohan shine in a teamgame among the replays for once.
And some others, but mostly these I found quite entertaining.
I can only say this: http://i.imgur.com/KYrrHop.png
Cheers!
@Haman, my pleasure mate, my pleasure.
To Kryptik: I would send this to you via PM, but I thought I'd place it here, because I thought it wass the only mistake really worth mentioning.
It concerns only the Rohan players actually. I focussed mainly on them during the long replay, because, let's be honest, they had quite a challenge before them. Isengard and Dwarves with their nasty late-game.
Anyway, I don't know if both Rohan players had intended this from the start, but you could see that Draco was going for a cavalry army while Haman was going for a more infantry-based army. This versatility was very enjoyable to watch as well. However, the only real mistake, and the one that might arguably have cost the Rohan players the game, was the lack of upgrades. Oh and Dwarves being able to field an army of Heroic Units doesn't really help either lol, but that was beyond their control.
I saw Draco get an Armoury on the Outpost at a good stage in the game and he had researched all the upgrades, but then Elite managed to destroy it, and after that he never rebuilt it. I don't know if I saw this with Haman, but I know that he was floating at a couple of stages in the game, because he didn't have an Armoury to upgrade his massive Peasant army or just did not upgrade them. In Draco's case, it might have been a risk to destroy an existing building to build a second Armoury, as he was more often deprived of resources during the game, so it might have been quite risky. He had a large group of Eastfold Rohirrim at some point and I was just waiting for those upgrades to see those Axe Rohirrim attack Isengard head-on, but they never came :(. Same thing in Haman's case, I was waiting to see that massive Peasant blob to be fully upgraded (accompanied by some spear throwers even) and clash with the small, but tanky Dwarven Army.
That was it really. I am not really sure what else Rohan could have done on this small map. They did pretty well considering the map and the match-up.
I could watch it again, and then observe Kryptik and Radek more, but maybe later.
Looking forward to see more of them gents, they always help in improving my game and the game of others, if they watch it, that is.
I've been watching Elite KryPtik and RuudDevil's Edain 4.3 beta videos a lot in the past few days. YouTube videos have the advantage over replays that you can always rewind and fast forward to different parts of the match. I decided to give the above 3-on-4 Brutal match a chance, though. xD
First of all, I really liked it how it was a 1k start. In almost every video or replay I've seen, people do a 4k start against the AI, and start by building a couple of heroes. Most of the match seemed to be Rohan, Gondor and Isengard defending KryPtik's base, as every AI faction was rushing it. Once again, the Elven AI was sickening with its cheating: by the time KryPtik had got Merry, Theoden, Gamling and Theodred out, the Elves had a Mirkwood fortress, Entmoot, Haldir, Celeborn, Galadriel and Thranduil out. :o Fortunately for you, one of the enemy AIs was the Dwarves, and not, say, Isengard.
The match was interesting to watch since it follows the typical drama pattern in most human-vs-AI matches: first defending against a neverending rush and an enemy that has most map control, then slowly building up and upgrading your army, and finally pushing the enemy back and gaining the map. There's one thing I was wondering, why didn't anyone build siege to take out the Mirkwood fortress and Entmoot next to KryPtik's base?