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How NOT To BattleReport, Part 2.

Hi again. To combat the lack of BRs, especially WarCraft3 ones, I’m creating yet another report.

But first a bit about me: I’m MacroWaveOven, on Lordadon (Us-West). My race statistics can be seen here, and my overall statistics can be seen here.

The game is a WarCraft ladder, 3v3.

To see Part 1 of the series, click here. Ha-ha.

The Game:

Map

Players

Build Orders

The Betrayal... em I don't think that's the correct term...

hippie for some reason sent his first ghoul to the top-right position, possibly for scouting, where Scott was residing.

Unfortunately, 1 minute in the game something a bit unfortunate happened:

Now, our talk went a bit like this:

BD: can u control pink?

jimmy: i can

jimmy: but can't u

BD: nah i cant

jimmy: ok ill control pink then

jimmy: what r u gettin anyway?

BD: ill go archers

jimmy: mass casters

jimmy: shamans

BD: k then

Opening Skirmish

I let hippie's ghoul get in the top-right, wondering who was up there. Scott was over there and was caught unawares as the ghoul ripped into a peasant, nearly killing it. However, he noticed, and retrieved it into his peon line, and selected three peons and converted them into militia to attack the offending ghoul, who was banging into an uncompleted Altar. It changed target too late, and was promptly slaughtered.

 Heroes and Creeping

I chose a Tauren Chieftain as my first hero (my favourite. Most powerful melee unit in the game), while BD chose a Priestess of the Moon (Reasonable, but I always choose Keeper of the Grove before her). As you saw in the Build Orders, I completely forgot about an Altar for hippie, and after a few minutes, I actually remembered. After banging my head on the table several times (Don't do it. It canes, and damages the table), I actually started one. When it finished, I immediately started on a Dreadlord.

Scott ordered up an Archmage, while fred did the same thing. EW, being Undead, chose instead a Dreadlord.

The creeping started relatively late. BD started just before fred and EW. BD had a few archers and his Priestess. He lost a few archers, but received a reasonable item - Scroll of the Beast, I think. fred and EW crept on the matching spot, and EW immediately expanded there (Early Expansions Section). I crept a little while later with Grunts and Headhunters, securing my base beforehand. Scott crept last (I don't know when).

Early Expansions

Straight after everyone crept, almost everyone expanded. BD immediately started a Tree of Life, while both fred and Scott's peasants started a Town Hall. One of EW's Acolytes started haunting a gold mine where fred and EW crept earlier. I chose not to expand, figuring that if I powered well enough, I wouldn't have many problems.

Little Update

Does anyone have any idea why the other team elected to tech even though it was a 2v3? (I'm assuming that you're supposed to rush when you're down team members)

CounterStrike

After the little conflict in Scott's main, nothing much happened. However, EW and fred were massing outside EW's new expansion. At 10:42 they crept south towards BD's base, and struck with a Dreadlord, ghouls, an Archmage, footmen and the odd rifleman or two.

After seeing that, I decided to finish creeping in the middle-right (was in the middle of it) before TPing back there. Without defensive structures, BD was forced to hold a little while before I could come. But when my Tauren Chieftain arrived, things were looking grim for the other team as constant stomping weakened the forces.

However, a nice Carrion Swarm severely weakened him, and he got finished off. The others were done with ages ago. With the help of some (bad) micro from my part, the attackers were forced to TP back, but they lost nearly all their troops, while our heroes were accounted for.

Overall, no-one was better off, for we both sustained heavy losses.

Building Update:

jimmy: Stronghold upgrading to Fortress, 4 burrows, 2 spirit lodges, 1 altar, 2 watch towers, a barracks and a war mill.

BD: 5 Moon Wells, Ancient of War, Altar, Hall, a Tree of Life and a Tree of Ages.

Scott: Lumber Mill, Altar, 8 Farms, 2-3 Barracks, a Castle, 2 Town Halls, around 7 towers and I believe a Blacksmith.

EW: Graveyard, 8 Spirit Towers, Altar, Crypt, Black Citadel, a Sacrificial Pit and... (goto the section after the next one).

fred: 6 farms, a Lumber Mill, A blacksmith, a Keep upping to castle, an Altar, 2 barracks and 3-4 Guard Towers.

Countercounterstrike

After we got our heroes back, nothing happened. We all could get our economy going.

But it was not long before war struck again. BD and I met at the place I crept earlier, and it was such that all of Team 2 was there as well. Therefore a fairly big battle struck there.

Team 1 had frost wyrms, gargoyles, crypt fiends, archers, huntresses... the whole lot. Team 2 had, um, knights and riflemen. Scott had completed his knight tech (as you saw), and struck hard at first.

But with jumping in and out with my Tauren Chieftain, I frequently stomped his guys so that they were severely weakened once again. Even fred's riflemen could not stand against my Undead air force Weakened by those losses, Team 2 was forced to pull back, allowing Team 1 to push further in the base.

From lack of anti-air, Scott's base eventually was crumbling to my air force of wyrms and gargoyles, among other things. With Scott severely crippled, we assumed the game would be immediately over.

We were half-right.

Countercountercounter... umm you get the idea

You might have been wondering what EW has been doing all this time. Well, during the attack at Scott's main, I sent a Shade to EW's base to see what was up, and what caught my eye as soon we were razing Scott's main was this:

I did a minimap ping to the area immediately. After seeing that, my ally decided to also start an Ancient of Lore (I think) but probably forgot to build dryads out of it.

 Well, now, about 6 frost wyrms had landed in my base and pounded on my towers. They used their Freezing Breath to render my Towers useless. After destroying them, they targeted the stronghold. Quickly thinking, I pinged for help, and walked most of my guys back (left air back there to continue razing) because I forgot to buy another TP. I didn't worry too much, I was sure that my base would hold well enough (didn't bother to repair). BD looked like he thought so too and also followed suit.

By the time the first shamans had arrived there, all my towers had gone and my Fortress had nearly half of its HP remaining. With shamans using Bloodlust on archers and crippling the wyrms, the intruders were gone, with very little loss.

I think you can guess the title

Just as the last frost wyrm was leveled, Scott's main was also completely leveled. I easily found his expansion with gargoyles, and hunted it down. A brief resistance was offered by riflemen and an Archmage (they nearly killed the Dreadlord, asdf) before the Shaman/archer combination, in conjunction with the Undead air, proved too great for the riflemen, and Scott lost his last working expansion.

Scott expanded again while we were away AGAIN, refusing to give up. Another pack of scouting gargoyles found the expansion, and a while later, that one was also destroyed by wyrms and gargoyles. Scott left the game soon after.

Last Straw

In desperation, EW sent in his last wyrms to hippie's main. BD's Archers arrived there immediately, and with their range upgrade they destroyed the remaining attackers. With Team 1 having total map control, EW and fred soon left the game. GG!

 Statistics

Personally, I thought this was a nice little game.

Lessons learned:

1. You CAN win a 2v3.

2. Try to build your altar first on

3. Don't bang your head on a wooden table

4. I should BR better and longer games.

5. I should place far less pics in my BRs.

6. If you don't know you opponent, always assume he/she is a newbie. How true.