war2

!!! Multiplayer Guide !!!

(Some tactics included also)

1. Humans or Orcs (to play with)? Believe me or not but the Orcs are the stronger race. So if you want to destroy your enemy without much thinking choose them. But if you are a good player it will be a good challenge to play with Humans.
2. Tactics for both races :
If you play low resources game it is a good idea to use the bug for trees (go with your peasant and chop one, two times on trees before building your town hall). This will give you 100-200 trees above and you will be able to build your farm without going to chop trees. Build farm (after your town hall) , click training peasant/peon, and quickly build second farm with your first peasant/peon. After that your tactic for the game depends on your opponent. If you play with nasty one you have to build your barracks as soon as possible (or you will be dead meat soon) and start building units which will defend you. Golden Rule - Do NOT build archers/axe throwers because they are great waste of resources. Build only footmen/grunts. Very important - Do NOT stop building farms and units. Try to build as much as 20 peasants/peons. Do NOT make any upgrades in your lumber mill (you must not use archers so it is a waste of resources). Do NOT upgrade Balista also ,but make all other upgrades in your blacksmith. Upgraded footman is much stronger then not upgraded one. Build Guard Towers not Cannons (many people think that Guard Towers are useless, but it is not true). Although they cannot stop medium and large armies they just hold your enemy's units for a while and your units can destroy them easily. Try to upgrade your town hall as soon as possible (the knights and ogres are stronger then footmen and grunts). Go with one or two footmen and explore the map. If you play with fog of war build many gnomish flying machines / goblins zeppelins and put them in a strategic positions.
3. Playing with Orcs :
The easiest way to destroy your enemy (even if he/she is very strong) is to build 9 (you can group just 9 units not more) ogre - mages .Then go with them near the enemy base. Then make Bloodlust over all of them and attack. Cool !!! Even if he/she survives after this attack (must be very strong) the next attack will erase him/her from the Earth's face. Yes, as you see the Bloodlust spell makes Orcs very very strong.
Other idea is to attack with dragons (I know you think the dragons are just waste of money). Build 9 dragons but this time throw on them not only Bloodlust spell , but also Haste spell. Your dragons will become unbeatable. Attack and raze!!!
Cool = If your dead knights have not got a work to do let them to make haste on your peons. They will run faster and will bring resources faster also.
4. Playing with Humans :
If you are a bad player - you have no chance to win (playing against orcs).
Build many footmen or knights - you will need them to defend yourself. If the game is without fog of war then try to reveal the hole map quickly. Now you can see when your opponent will try to attack you. When his/her attack begins quickly press many times the minus key. This will slow the game and will allow you to use your healing spell before your units be killed. Also you will have more time to think about your defense strategy and where to place your units.
For attack mainly use mages and knights. Make Blizzard and Porcalator over your enemies. Defend mages with the knights. Also very clever is to use your Invisibility spell. You can sneak into the enemy base and make Exorcism over enemy dead knights. Beware they have this nasty spell Death Coil.
After all you can try to attack your enemy with very many knights if he/she has not very much ogres to make Bloodlust. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Cool = Build up to nine mages. Now even if he/she attacks you with nine ogres you can turn all of them into a pigs (do not forget to use the minus key or the ogres will destroy you before you can see them).

This file was created on 04.27.1998 by ZAKS
Last updated : 02.09.1999