Elite_Knight takes his first wisp out and puts it on to the mine, his third creates a moonwell, and his fourth starts an altar at almost the exact same time as Karma . Both players produce about 4-5 more wisps and another moonwell.

Soon there respective altars blossom and they both start the new "blademaster" the Demon Hunter, let me briefly explain why he is an asshole. First reason is Immolation, Immolation rox all early game units especially creeps. Second reason is, all his skills are useful, evasion being the least useful is still pretty useful compared to other heroes less useful abilities. Mana burn is pretty fucking cool, Take mana from an enemy unit causing it damage equal to the mana taken, and also possibly prohibiting them from casting something. just plain mean !

So these bad boys head out to there Expansions to find some creeps and IMMOLE them. Both Demon hunters get to the Expansions at about the same time. The hunters start ripping into a Troll shadow priest lvl 4 ( heals himself and other creeps) both players turn immolation on once they are close enough. After the shadow priest falls, both players retreat their hero back to the moonwell to recharge life and mana. Then they go back and finish up the damaged lvl 4 headhunters.
during this time Elite_Knight has busied himself with creating two more moonwells and an elder of war, and upgrading his tree of life to a tree of ages. Karma has however dropped two more moonwells and two elders of war and a hunters hall.
Soon the heros have ridden the Expansions of creepers, gaining expereince almost to lvl 2 and a treasure. Elite_Knight is able to walk his tree of life right in as the creeps are dying, however Karma’s Tree of life has not completed yet. With the expansions taken care of and the necessarry advantage taken advantage of, the players turn their attentions toward each other.

Both players send down there Demon hunters, to the east and west entrances to the temple. There they encounter a group of gnolls. Elite_Knight is still using his Demon hunter as a one elf army, however he has finished the upgrade on his tree of ages and the christmas lights on his Altar are blinking. Also, Elite_Knight has two Elders of war growing in his main, and an Ancient protector ( Cannon ) growing at his nat along with two moonwells. Karma on the other hand has started pumping Huntress' to aid his demon hunter.

AS you can see both players were creeping a little to close to each other, when Karma’s hunter and 2 huntress' runs into Elite_Knight’s hunter, Elite_Knight’sreaction is quicker as he Mana burns Karma . Karma returns it immediately, then Elite_Knight notes the two huntress' and attacks the sleeping lvl 5 ogre in order to occupy Karma while he makes a run for it . Once the Ogre runs after Elite_Knight a bit, he gets tired and turns on Karma . Karma can’t take the Ogre and his two flunkies with just two huntress' his Hunter and Elite_Knight lurking about, so he awaits reinforcements.
Elite_Knight realizes the importance of getting the next mana burn in and Goes back to snipe Karma with a mana burn, depleting Karma’s mana to 30 something. Karma does not take to this kindly and chases Elite_Knight out of the temple and towards his natural area. Elite_Knight gives way until all of a sudden a blazing red figure mounted on a blazing white tiger blazes onto the scene. Elite_Knight has summoned a priestess of the moon to aid his 1 elf army. The hunter and POTm turn on Karma who engages briefly, long enough to lose 1 huntress. Karma pulls out after this and is greeted by a reinforcement of 2 more huntress'.

The spat is over and Both players turn to a bit more creep killing Karma has amassed 8 or so huntress' while he has cleared out some other creeps in the temple. Then Karma decides to clear the fountain taking out the 6 something creeps there, getting experience, 3 treasures, and the fountain of health.
Elite_Knight has decided to exploit the awesomeness of Siege units and rolls out to the 6 o clock natural with his Demon Hunter Potm and Two ballistas. After Elite_Knight removes the creeps at the 6 o clock nat he rolls his ballistas back down to the east entrance to the temple where he is joined by two more ballistas. Elite_Knight also sends out a wisp to the 6 O clock nat and starts a tree of life in Expansion position.

Karma has finished off all creeps in the temple and starts to upgrade his tree of ages to a tree of eternity about the same time Elite_Knight does. Karma’s upgrades are 1/1 range and he has thrown down a Ancient of lore. Karma also has decided another hero wont hurt as his Demon hunter is nearing lvl 4 and Elite_Knight’s hunter has only just broken lvl 3. Karma’s new hero is a priestess of the moon wich gives his units trueshot aura, as Karma moves out to the east entrance of the temple the two forces engage.

Elite_Knight gets a few good shots in on Karma’s group of 6 huntress' and Demon hunter and Potm. Soon though the tides turn when Karma brings in two of his own ballistas. At the first shots Elite_Knight retreats losing two ballistas, and killing 3 huntress'.

Karma gives chase to Elite_Knight nat before turning back as Elite_Knight adds two more Ballistas to his arsenal bringing him back up to 4 and 2 heros, plus an Ancient protector and moonwells at his nat. Karma pulls back to the fountain and regens his Huntress' while hes joined by two of those Sexy Dryads.( see Sexy dryads below ) Elite_Knight has rolled two more ballistas out bringing the grand total to Six and also his Tree of Eternity upgrade has finished. Once again the christmas lights on his altar starts to blink.
After Karma is done regenerating he moves out towards Elite_Knight’s nat with roughly 6 huntress' 3 dryads and 2 ballistas, plus his Potm and demon hunter. Elite_Knight gets a funny feeling something might be up so he sends a Demon hunter out the front door of his base to scout out Karma’s troop movements, wanting to protect his 6 o clock nat Expansion. The Demon hunter gets quite a good view ( good view to the right ) of Karma’s troops moving in towards his Expansion. In response, Elite_Knight moves his ballistas Down to his expansion. Karma comes up and sees 6 ballistas, a Potm, and a Demon hunter, plus 3 moonwells and an ancient protector. He turns around and decides to secure an expansion before pressing his hand..

Karma heads out past the temple and up to the 12 natural to clear the creeps there and start an Expansion. He also starts two Chimera roosts, his upgrades are now 2/2 while Elite_Knight is only at 1/1. Elite_Knight has decided that if you’r going to have 2 heros you might as well have 3 heros.



Adding a Keeper of the Grove to his force, Elite_Knight decides to move out and strike at Karma’s expansion in a quick hit and scroll attempt. Elite_Knight pauses at the eastern entrance to the temple as Karma returns from the 12 o clock nat where he recently set up an expansion. Elite_Knight sends his force out towards Karma’s natural, but the heros get seperated and the result costs Elite_Knight the battle
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If it wasn’t for the fact that Elite_Knight’s heros were seperated from the ballistas, I think he would have won this fight. As the fray begins, Two huntress’ join Elite_Knight’s forces to fight roughly 8 huntress' 3 dryads 1 Druid of the claw and Karma’s two heros. At first it looks really bad for Elite_Knight, but Karma’s priestess of the moon goes down incredibly fast to ballista focus fire. Karma focuses on the ballistas first while Elite_Knight’s heros stir it up casting mana burn and Immolation and focussing on dryads. Slow poison, Trueshot, and immolation help Karma take the ballistas down fairly fast while only losing half there number. Eventually Elite_Knight sees the outcome unreasonable and sCroll of Town portals out of the battle back to his Expansion.

During the battle Karma has started two Chymeras. Elite_Knight Quickly restocks his unit count with more pure huntress' about 5, plus his three heros and Ballista. Elite_Knight quickly sets out across the map knowing by this time he has an advantage in resources and must try and stop Karma from expanding. Also he knows Karma will most likely be clearing creeps for another future expansion, and he might be able to catch him away form his house. Karma’s ressurrected POTM and a couple new huntress' join his main army down below the eastern entrance to the temple just in time to meet Elite_Knight . At first it looks as if Elite_Knight has a chance to inflict some damage and pull ahead in troop count but instead of fighting at the corner of the entrance limiting the surface area of the attacking huntress' he is lulled out and stretched thin. However his Ballista is positioned well on the other side of the trees, and get in some good shots.

Elite_Knight Scrolls away from the battle after only a few casualties on either side. Elite_Knight decides that seeing Karma with stronger ground then him means he should try the Siege again. So Elite_Knightadds 4 ballistas to his force while Karma’s first Chymeras roll onto the scene

Karma realizes the makeup of his opponents army is strong anti ground and knows the time has come to press down on Elite_Knight. Following his intuition he checks Elite_Knight’smost likely Expansion choice. He arrives at Elite_Knight’s 6 o clock nat uncontested, but as the first shots are fired the blue swirly signature of a Scroll of T.P. brings the hapless Expansion some Halp.

Despite his best efforts to repel the assault Elite_Knight is left facing a retreating ground army and two chymeras and a decimated tree of life. O by the way Chymeras are the most bad ass air unit in terms of kicking the shit out of ground troops and buildings. They cannot attack air, but Rape ground horribly and are very tough to kill as well. During the battle Elite_Knight’s Keeper of the Grove is seriously injured and the keeper and the POTm are the only anti air he currently has. Realizing this he trys to make a run for it to the fountain of life in the temple and also he starts two ancient of the wind to start producing hippogryphs ( anti air, and can be trained to carry archers making them ground/air ), and starts pumping archers.


Karma has not been lazy though, and has kept his Chymera roost queued in order to keep the pressure on.
Meanwhile Karma’s chymeras have been hunting down the keeper of the grove, and nail him just as Elite_Knight enters the temple, he reaches the fountain only to be greeted by two more chymeras. Seeing this a generally bad thing Elite_Knight leaves two wounded Huntress' as bait while his force slips out the back towards his own base.
Once safe from the flying death, Elite_Knight heads around the top of the temple up towards the 12 natural where he makes a critical error Attacking Karma’s expansion there. Karma quickly town portals an impressive force of 6 chymeras, 6 huntress', 2 dryads, and his two heros. The effect is immediate as Elite_Knight’s Keeper of the grove goes down in .2343 Seconds. Elite_Knight’s POTM gets hit by some slow poison from Karma’s dryads and are quickly overwhelmed by the Chymeras, only Elite_Knight’s Demon hunter and 2 huntress' make it away from the battle.
Karma pursues and rips into Elite_Knight’s natural where he has throw together 3 hyppogryphs some archers and his ressurected Keeper and Priestess. IT is To little To late however, and that’s the game.

yes GG -_-

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So back in the channel we talk about the game a bit, about how much Chimeras own, and how 3 heros might be to many. Also about how proxxying tree of ages is gay. Me and smaq complained bitterly on and on about the lack of variation in the opening of the game.
all of a sudden , why who should appear but jamers! followed by eight tiny reindeer. Smaq was feeling fresh and needed a test, so he challenged jamers to a duel to the death !
Let me tell you a bit about the players

Jamers : very high on ladder since it started basically. Really good player adept at the art of random.

Smaq : a very very skilled player yet very incosistent. AkA luckyXsmurf a good friend of mine, and a good friend of FroZ, Smaq has potential to be a Serious Gamer in the future.

This game is the best war3 game I have obsed so far, very close and very intense, however I was lost in the intensity and didn't take any screens, so the rest of the report is all text ( roofleZ ) just kidding , I had smaQo Send me the rep and a pirated replay viewer. The funny thing is though, unlike a starcraft replay on war3 you can only get vision from one player at a time on the replay. A first person view, in a manner of speaking. So most of these images are composed of Diff angles and positions, I tried to make it as understandable as possible. Anyway, enjoy !

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I realize this report is incredibly long, and therefore will try not to bore you with tedious details.
Me and lifeboy join up to Obs and Jamers and SmaQ are pitted as 7'O clock and 10'O clock hoooman respectively, on the Tranquil paths. Jamers starts out by placing all his workers on the Gold mine and waiting for his first peasant to complete training before ordering him to start a farm. His next peasant starts an altar. The third through 5th peasants are placed on lumber after the first farm is completed another is started and the altar completes. Jamers orders up a paladin and starts a barracks with his now idle peasant. Jamers appeared to be building a solid foundation for his war machine. Or maybe he just decided to go get some pizza before things picked up, because Jamers didn’t do much but build farms for awhile.



SmaQ on the other hand decides on a slightly different tech route. Creating only a farm and an altar and accumulating around 4 lumber harvesters plus his starting 5 on gold, he upgrades to keep. He drops a blacksmith and a barracks shortly after his first Hero is summoned, a mighty blue pally. both players put there paladins skill point into holy light ( heal on steroids )
Jamers is taking his sweet time getting around to a fighting force, he has added another farm and a lumber mill when finally his rAx completes a little after SmaQ’S . Jamers adds a second Barracks to begin some hardcore troop pumping.
SmaQ on the other hand has traded an early troop count for a Secondary hero, as his Keep finishes he orders up an Archmage along with two Riflemen. Jamers has added around 5 footmen and started the attack upgrade at his newly made Smithy. Eventually both armies get bored and decide to go find some amusement.

SmaQ places his archmage’s first skill point into blizzard and proceeds to make liberal use of it through the rest of the game. Jamers hits the closest Creep spot where an Ogre mauler and a Troll berserker are snoozing. He dispatches them with no losses, with the help of some holy light.
at about the same time SmaQ heads to the creep spot where two berserkers and a golem are snoozing. SmaQ blizzards the area and holy lights 1 or two times, killing the creeps rather efficiently with only 2 riflemen a pally and an archmage.
Though its not pictured ( I realized I left something out of that pic , well to fucking bad ) SmaQ hits the nearer creep spot where the ogre mauler and berserker are on his way to the merc camp. Once he gets there SmaQ takes out the Ogres there and buys an important troll shadow priest ( heals ).
SmaQ finds himself near the low left Expand spot and probably figures its time to give some attention to his enemy. Lucky for him he doesn’t have to go far before he runs smaQ ! right into a Newly erected Town hall. After Jamers dispatched the Ogre mauler and berserker , he went straight to his nat with about 5 footies two riflemen and around 5 peasants.(like in war2 human peasants can repair a building to make it build faster) Quickly clearing the Expansion he orders the town hall constructed just in time for SmaQ to stumble upon it.

That’s right no one loves the pallys. As SmaQ engages Jamers becomes aware of his deficit, quickly he orders a tower constructed and repaired by 4 peasants. Quickly it is a scout tower and Jamers ups it to a guard tower while juking back and forth with SmaQ’S Army. Back and forth they go with SmaQ casting blizzards and Holy lights and Jamers pulling injured footies to the rear while constructing another tower. With the tower almost completed and an influx of 2 Riflemen Jamers steps up to the plate and engages SmaQ’S force, SmaQ’S riflemen target the pally and its quickly in the red. Jamers pulls his pally out while targetting SmaQ’S pursuing paladin. SmaQ flees as well and finally Jamers targets SmaQ’S Archmage which has been near death for quite a while. SmaQ holy lights in the nick of time to keep the mage alive. Quickly he retreats, back to his base.
Things look good for Jamers now having taken an early Expansion with 2/1 riflemen and having just added a brand spanking new Archmage to boot. SmaQ on the other hand is 1/1 with both range and melee and has started his castle upgrade. Upon returning to his base he starts another barracks and takes 5 peasants with him to his natural to do a little of this.

SmaQ dispatches the Creeps at his natural and quickly sets to work repairing his Town hall.
During this time Jamers has reached around a 12 unit troop and heads out to fight some Creepies near the fountain of mana. Jamers’ ups are now 2/2 range with a lvl 1 mage and a lvl 2 pally. SmaQ is 2/1 , 2/1 mellee and range and has a lvl 1 mage and a lvl 3 pally. SmaQ also decides that he needs to " get teh monies " ( I never saw those fucking coins before in a game I swear ) and goes to his Fountain of mana to take down the lvl 6 Ogre mage the two lvl 5 maulers and the two lvl 4 berserkers. Gaining quite a lot of Exp and monies. Unfortunately for Jamers, Jamers had a better camera angle so he gets a bigger picture of the fountain battle -_-

Somehow Jamers’ battle takes much longer then SmaQ’S and SmaQ is free to attack more creeps Jamers heads to the left to kill some creeps at the merc camp that SmaQ already cleared out. SmaQ chooses to clear the top right Expansion first then he goes to the low right Expansions clearing the creeps there.
Jamers doesn’t like being left out of the action and shows up to the party just a bit late. Jamers is able to streamline SmaQ’S troop movement by cornering them in near the woods, SmaQ takes a lot of damage that way. So SmaQ takes off running, for some reason Jamers doesn’t chase him initially and SmaQ stops to creep once more removing a patch of creeps near the meadow in front of the top fountain. Jamers manages to get to him right as he is leaving again but gets a few hits in. SmaQ runs back to his Exp where he has 1 tower and a little surprise for the pursuing Jamers .

When Jamers arrives at SmaQ’S nat SmaQ turns and the armies Square off Mage vs Mage Pally vs Pally and Knights, Rifle, and footy vs a lot of rifles. Pound for pound Jamers had more oomph, but SmaQ casts a decisive blizzard over the front line and Jamers realizes the combination of A.O.E from above, the large melee units soaking up damage from the front, and the Rifles hitting from the back would quickly crush his all range force. Jamers retreats to a nearby goblin laboratory to remove some creeps.
After seeing his force intimidate Jamers so, SmaQ moves out to the meadow while sending 5 peasants over to the top right natural Expansion, there he starts a Town hall and begins repairing it, he then moves his force down the path on the right side of the circular center of the map. Jamers had sent earlier a group of peasants to begin a town at the low right natural expansion, SmaQ strolls right in though, and promptly quells any such Expanding ideas. Jamers initially heads toward the hapless exp, but realizes it will take to long to reach and is better to counter SmaQ’S natural, At the turning point in the game Jamers is 3/3 range with a lvl 3 pally and a lvl 2 archmage, and SmaQ is 3/3 ground and 2/2 range with a lvl 4 pally and a lvl 2 archmage. Jamers gives his all and charges into SmaQ’S natural. 5 Seconds later SmaQ drops the Smaq and uses his Scroll o Town Portal.
Jamers quickly picks up on the tension in the air Sensing he is not welcome, either that, or the falling ice tipped him off.
The battle is brief and one sided Jamers’ archmage ( and his horse ) fall very fast to a combination of rifle and knight's swords. Jamers manages to kill a handful of units but is completely decimated by Blizzard. As Jamers retreat before portalling out SmaQ pally and Mage lvl up. During the battle one of Jamers’ Riflemen stumbled upon SmaQ’S new Town hall in the top right natural Exp spot. After killing 1 peasant, SmaQ calls forth a mighty 3 man militia to quell the terrorism. SmaQ rides again, once more, taking the route leading him around the right side of the circular center of the map. Jamers who has ressurrected his mage knows he must stop SmaQ’S resource advantage to equal him with his superior lvled army. Jamers sets out and is halfway to SmaQ’S base when SmaQ charges into the left side of Jamers natural. Two towers are waiting for SmaQ there and he sets to work bringing them down. At the same time Jamers reaches SmaQ’S completely undefended natural, he first massacres the peasants there and then sets to work on the Town hall itself. At first its a race to see who can destroy the Town hall first, then SmaQ realizes that he should try and save his hall and hold onto a bigger advantage that he might have if they both lost there naturals. SmaQ Town portals back to deal with the infedels.
Jamers stays long enough to lose his Archmage ( again ) and send SmaQ’S Town hall into the red with 13 hitpoints where it stays until it is repaired. Later Jamers was quoted on the topic by saying " fucking ndsfsdknf shit it didn’t die ? " Jamers had used his last Town portal and must run all the way back to his base, the long way up the path leading to SmaQ’S base SmaQ takes this opportunity to overrun straggling dwarves with the faster knights wittling Jamers force smaller and smaller. When Jamers finally reaches his own natural and reinforcements, SmaQ’S cavarly/range combo coupled with Holy light and blizzard are to much for Jamers to handle
After the battle Jamers Paladin bravely accepts his fate as Jamers and SmaQ exchange GG's.

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Well if you read through this entire report, well your amazing. ! GO you ! I hope this wasn’t to bad a read. I enjoyed writing it though ( yes I was dropped as a child )
Before I go I'd like to shoutout to Smaq , Dino and a big one to Jeb for helping me proof this monster.
Also to Karma, Jamers, Cantona, Pillars, and Elite Knight for letting me obs.
also to mark4 for giving me front page hookups for my last Battlereports -_-, GOGOG mark4 !
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