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How to beat Giant/Meric Strategies?

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Jan 8, 2013 12:59 PM #845459
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I read 3 words of this before I stopped reading. :D


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Jan 8, 2013 8:41 PM #845734
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My sincere condolences on your condition.
I am afraid I seldom write for people whose attention span prevents them reading a whole sentence, never mind a paragraph.


:( I read an encyclopedia for my book report because I forgot to read the directions for a Fictional book on a report. I got a B and wasted my time. But that was 5th grade, I really don't care about that because its not like it counts for a GPA or anything...
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Jan 12, 2013 4:37 PM #849038
need to have giant limit on battle field or giant pop increase to 10
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Jan 12, 2013 9:24 PM #849260
If your opponent has one or two giants, magikill with speartons can do the trick. However, if your opponent is massing giants, then you'll have to resort to trying to run past all your opponent's defenses and attacking only the statue. You won't be able to kill five giants with more on the way and be able to effectively rebuild. Scout the opponent's castle with a swordwrath. If he doesn't have any units in front of his statue, he either has not made any or is garrisoning them in his castle to hide them from your sight. Either way, your opponent is probably building up giants. From here, build up two or more lines of speartons. Once this is done, command all your speartons to attack the opponent's tower. The giants of your opponents will stun as many speartons as their amount, and kill maybe a few, but they'll only put a dent in your army. You should be able to destroy the statue with 8+ speartons, even if it does have resilience.

If your opponent has walls in front of the statue, command your speartons to attack those first. As in, manually right click on the walls. This is because your units will run into the wall if you right clicked on the statue first, or they will deviate and attack units in front of the wall if you just clicked the attack option.

A desperate attack by miners shouldn't be a stopping force for your army. Magikill with electric wall in conjunction with 3 castle archers will. If this is the case, kill the magikill first. If he has set up an electric wall, attack the statue from the side the wall isn't on. The archers should really only be able to bring your speartons to low health at that point. Consider bringing along a meric, though those will die easily amidst boulders and arrows.

The greatest counter to this counter is an intelligent opponent commanding his miners to continuously build walls in front of his statue as you destroy them. You can't target a wall as it's being built in the first second, so your speartons will deviate, probably. You can attack the miner, however, and from there, destroy the low health wall. No matter what, though, this play by your opponent will put more time in your speartons to get battered, and possibly end up having your attack fail.
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Jan 14, 2013 12:25 AM #850579
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If your opponent has one or two giants, magikill with speartons can do the trick. However, if your opponent is massing giants, then you'll have to resort to trying to run past all your opponent's defenses and attacking only the statue. You won't be able to kill five giants with more on the way and be able to effectively rebuild. Scout the opponent's castle with a swordwrath. If he doesn't have any units in front of his statue, he either has not made any or is garrisoning them in his castle to hide them from your sight. Either way, your opponent is probably building up giants. From here, build up two or more lines of speartons. Once this is done, command all your speartons to attack the opponent's tower. The giants of your opponents will stun as many speartons as their amount, and kill maybe a few, but they'll only put a dent in your army. You should be able to destroy the statue with 8+ speartons, even if it does have resilience.

If your opponent has walls in front of the statue, command your speartons to attack those first. As in, manually right click on the walls. This is because your units will run into the wall if you right clicked on the statue first, or they will deviate and attack units in front of the wall if you just clicked the attack option.

A desperate attack by miners shouldn't be a stopping force for your army. Magikill with electric wall in conjunction with 3 castle archers will. If this is the case, kill the magikill first. If he has set up an electric wall, attack the statue from the side the wall isn't on. The archers should really only be able to bring your speartons to low health at that point. Consider bringing along a meric, though those will die easily amidst boulders and arrows.

The greatest counter to this counter is an intelligent opponent commanding his miners to continuously build walls in front of his statue as you destroy them. You can't target a wall as it's being built in the first second, so your speartons will deviate, probably. You can attack the miner, however, and from there, destroy the low health wall. No matter what, though, this play by your opponent will put more time in your speartons to get battered, and possibly end up having your attack fail.


I'll repeat the strategy I used when Giant Spamming and dealing with Spearton statue rush.

6 Giants in center with Tower Spawn II

Now what I'm saying next is does take a long time to make, but if you see them attacking all you have to do is press defend quickly. You should have at least 2 walls by then

2 Miner Walls

3 Castle Archers

As many SwordWrath as you can get with Rage. Kill your miners if you have to.

So basically, I feigned an attack with Giants, pressured my opponent to come attack my statue. SwordWrath with Rage + Castle Archers, 15 Spearton dead in 7 seconds. They didn't even get to destroy the 2nd Miner Wall yet.
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Jan 29, 2013 6:16 PM #866276
The best way to stop giant massers is to cut the source. You have to focus on early warfare and try to choke their economy so you can still build yours but at the same time harass theirs. Then overwhelm them before they can create giants because giants take forever to make.
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