Quick Warcraft 3 strategies...

Suddenly Warcraft 3 has made it back into my friends weekly LAN party. And I'm found with little to no skill in it. After consulting another friend of mine who actually beat the single player campaign I've come up with a fairly good strategy for the Undead, which I will go into later. But I need strategies for the other races (Night Elf, Orc, Human). I really need help so I don't get squashed in the first 5 mintues of play.

My Undead Strategy:
Ingrediants:
1 - Death Knight
4 - Crypt Fiends
6 - Necromancers
6 - Meat Wagons

This group makes a nice army. The Fiends should have Web researched first thing, and set to auto-casted, to provide air defense. The necromancers should research skeleton longevity and you should use your graveyards (have at least 2-3 at your main base) to upgrade your skeletons armor/attack. The idea is you want to make a "insta-army" of skeleton warriors. Have you Meat Wagons collect the corpses that come out of the graveyards, this is why you need more than one. For every meat wagon you make, create a necromancer. For moving around the map, I have all my units grouped and I have them follow my Death Knight, so I only have one unit I need to move. I then send out scouts (shades, ghouls, skeletons, etc.) to find an enemy base/army. Once located I move my forces close to it, but before I engage you dump out all the corpese from your Meat Wagons and have your necro's create skeletons. You should be able to have a steady stream of skeletons coming now and with the added support of the Meat Wagons and Crypt Fiends you should be able to take out anything in your way in short order. The Death Knight at a high level can reanimate corpses as well, be sure to target powerful fallen units or it's just a waste. The graveyards at your main base also provide defense as long as you have a necro nearby to raise some skeletons in case you need to.

Please decribe your strategies so we all can learn... thanks. :)

Mass huntresses are hard to beat in the beginning if you are Night Elf.

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Originally posted by Mr Cherry

Crypt Keepers (spider thingys)

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That's Crypt Fiend!

Okay, here we go:

Orcs:

Shadowhunter, then Tauren Chieftain, then Blademaster or Far Seer.

Grunts and maybe a few headhunters, then casters(have a ton of shaman and then max of 6 witch doctors for healing ward). Eventually go for Tauren with some air or catapult support.

Human:

Paladin, then Mage, then either Blood Mage or Mountain King.

Pump out 4 footman, then casters(mix of priest and sorc). Then get knights and griffin riders. Throw in some air and mortar teams if you get a chance.

Night Elf:

Keeper of the Grove, then Demon Hunter, then Priestes of the moon.

Pump out huntresses, then get dryads and a few druid of the claw. Throw in some chimera and glaive throwers if you get a chance.

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Originally posted by Kamakazie
That's Crypt Fiend!

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thanks, I couldn't remember the exact name, that's why I put the "spider thingies". Fixed it in my post.

;)

Your welcome for the strategy summaries as well.

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Originally posted by Schmunkel98
Your welcome for the strategy summaries as well.

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yes, thank you too, though could you go into more detail. Like what am I suppose to do once I have all those units? Any battle strategies?

Well, constantly work your way toward the enemy. Creep as much as you can to level up before you attack. Team play is a lot more fun than 1 vs 1 in my opinion. Micromanaging is also a biggie in this game.

Classic or expansion?

Man I thought I was the only one still playing this game. I might quit though. Recently I've been getting disconnected a lot. I mean like every game for the past week or so. Has anybody else been experiencing problems? I've got about 30 losses from recent disconnections.:(

How about you ask people with lvl15 or higher to respond?

Undead
Build Graveyard
Alter
Grypt
Zig(house)
1 ghoul(so you should have 2 on wood)
build Death Knight(get coil first)
build cryp fiend 1
build zig(house)
build cryp fiend 2
build cryp fiend 3
build cryp fiend 4
Upgrade to +1 feind attack in graveyard
upgrade to teir2
while upgrading make sure you either rush or creep hard.
upgraded to teir2
build cryp fiend 5
build zig(house)
Build Hero2(Lyrch)
get web upgrade(good defense vs orc which get air at the 6min mark)
build cryp fiend 6
build cryp fiend 7
Now you have your food at 40/40 with a good army and your collecting lots of gold with your mine/creeping
upgrade teir3
build temple of the dammed
build 5-10 necros then attack
Make sure you buy wands/heal/mana before you attak
make sure you use novafrost and death coil vs enemy heros
gl

BTW this strat is for ROC if you need some for other races I can provide them as for TFT I only have a good strat for ORC.
Thanks.

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Man I thought I was the only one still playing this game.

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Nope. I'm only in Chapter 4 of the Night Elves (single player) in TFT. Just bought it about a week ago after being 3/4 of the way finished with RoC single player. Haven't played either online yet.

In TFT, I'm having to learn the Night Elf strategy, because I haven't played them yet in RoC.

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Originally posted by number1sixerfan
Man I thought I was the only one still playing this game. I might quit though. Recently I've been getting disconnected a lot. I mean like every game for the past week or so. Has anybody else been experiencing problems? I've got about 30 losses from recent disconnections.:(

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Hey, haven't seen you around for a while. Haven't had time for much b.net :mad: but I'm starting to play more again :)

Feel free to bump this old thread to get people to play for practice ;)
http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthre...light=warcraft

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Strategies...
Never stand around doing nothing, if you can help it. Always be building at your base and creeping or attacking the enemy with your army.

Start with a mix of about 5 tier one melee and 5 tier one range with your hero. This is usually good for creeping/defending/attacking. (Start creeping with the first 5 units and hero, don't wait for all 10 units to be done.)

In classic I like doing stuff like this:
Undead - Ghouls or abominations w/ necro and banshee.
Humans - Knights or gryphons w/ priests and sorceress. Or all out gryphons.
Night Elf - Bears w/ dryads and archers. Or all hippos.
Orcs - Tauren w/ shamans and witch doctors.

Those are usually my target unit types. Mainly these are for fighting ground.

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Originally posted by Mr Cherry
Suddenly Warcraft 3 has made it back into my friends weekly LAN party. And I'm found with little to no skill in it. After consulting another friend of mine who actually beat the single player campaign I've come up with a fairly good strategy for the Undead, which I will go into later. But I need strategies for the other races (Night Elf, Orc, Human). I really need help so I don't get squashed in the first 5 mintues of play.

My Undead Strategy:
Ingrediants:
1 - Death Knight
4 - Crypt Fiends
6 - Necromancers
6 - Meat Wagons

This group makes a nice army. The Fiends should have Web researched first thing, and set to auto-casted, to provide air defense. The necromancers should research skeleton longevity and you should use your graveyards (have at least 2-3 at your main base) to upgrade your skeletons armor/attack. The idea is you want to make a "insta-army" of skeleton warriors. Have you Meat Wagons collect the corpses that come out of the graveyards, this is why you need more than one. For every meat wagon you make, create a necromancer. For moving around the map, I have all my units grouped and I have them follow my Death Knight, so I only have one unit I need to move. I then send out scouts (shades, ghouls, skeletons, etc.) to find an enemy base/army. Once located I move my forces close to it, but before I engage you dump out all the corpese from your Meat Wagons and have your necro's create skeletons. You should be able to have a steady stream of skeletons coming now and with the added support of the Meat Wagons and Crypt Fiends you should be able to take out anything in your way in short order. The Death Knight at a high level can reanimate corpses as well, be sure to target powerful fallen units or it's just a waste. The graveyards at your main base also provide defense as long as you have a necro nearby to raise some skeletons in case you need to.

Please decribe your strategies so we all can learn... thanks. :)

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I generally love this strategy...however a small pod of Priests can ruin your day pretty quick.

shaman + witch doctor + tauren for me