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ChiefGrizzlyBlunts's Warcraft III -- Frozen Throne (PC)
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| [February 9, 2007 02:38:32 PM]
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Feeling confident in our improved abilities my friend and I decided to challenge my room mate in a 2v1 game despite being slaughtered a few days before. I swiftly made my first few commands, constructing the essential structures and ensuring my economy was on track. Things were rolling well but in my haste to build an army and upgrade their arsenal I had repeadedly forgotten to save money for upgrading my city center. Upgrading this central structure is essential for developoing more powerful troups and my delay here was costly, leaving me seemingly a generation behing my ally and sureley my opponent. However, I was lucky enough not to have my weak forces attacked and had the good fortune of my ally’s forces defending me while I continued upgrading.
I finally assembled what I felt was ad cent army but failted to organize it well. Though I had previously been told about the ability to group forces so they can be selected with the press of a button rather than struggling to target groups with the mouse, I negeltected to use this feature…bad move. My comrade and I launched our first offensive and were tearing through my room mate’s base. He started complaining about being bombarded before he had a chance to recover from his last attack we squashed and having the upper hand, my friend and I decided to show him some mercy…again…bad move.
With the extra time we were pleased to upgrade our forces and expand our grasp by securing additional gold mines to support the elite armies we were building. But before I knew it while my army was out exploring there were over twenty hyppogryph riders (powerful arches on flying mounts) in the center of my town destroying all my gold miners and timber collectors. He even destroyed my barracks before I could create any defensive forces. I was whipped out before my army was even able to make it back to my town. My room mate was able to trample us because he steadily improved as we leveled off. That loss taught more than I can express, and I we haven’t lost a 2v1 since, but that’s not to say it hasn’t been close. =)
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| [February 9, 2007 01:57:16 PM]
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Despite my longstanding appreciation of Starcraft, I had had not had a chance to try its brethren Warcraft 3 until very recently. I'm still pretty newb so for the most part I've just been learning playing against the computer or my roommates on the LAN. I've definitely progressed and developed a fairly solid game plan, however, I'm not comfortable enough with it yet to start building the foundations for my town almost unconsciously like my roommate can. I've gotten accustomed to playing Undead, which isn’t too much of a surprise since I played the parallel race Protoss in Starcraft. What makes Undead unique amongst the other races in Warcraft 3 is their "builders" have ability to open portals that summon buildings and then move on to another task. All other races builders have to stay around constructing the structure. Due to the initial monetary constraints in the beginning you cannot build all the structures you are permitted to, so you must prioritize. I sometimes build 3/4 of the base structures, get caught up building an army or scouting for an enemy and needlessly leave my town unable to progress. But I'm getting better. =)
The numerous projects and conquests one has to pay close attention to to maintain give the player a sense of what it would really be like to be the commander and chief of an expedition. There is a remarkable amount of strategies involved in successfully defeating a skillful enemy. One often has to make moves that seem irrational to succeed. For example, if you have a somewhat fortified base under attack but your army far away but close by the enemy it can be better to attack in hopes of destroying his base first or forcing his troops to retreat. Through my first couple of battles I was refreshed on the value of strategies like importance of having a rush defense and teaching crypt fiends the Web ability so ground troops are able to hit air targets.
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ChiefGrizzlyBlunts's Warcraft III -- Frozen Throne (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 4 February, 2007
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