Ok so because of the beautiful beautiful patch I am now allowed to...flex my strategy a bit more and I came up with this seemingly solid strategy (that could easily be screwed by swords but what are the odds of that?) anyways
short map- get sw+ ar combo and attack, if he has units there, Kite them to death, if not keep going, leave archer there to capture mid, sword to go scout/harass/distract enemy, if there's a defence send archer and knock it down, if no defence call in archer but keep him out of castle archer range and have sword harass, if he gets castle archer, run, more defences, call in archer and destroy defences, if defence to strong then kite and keep getting miners simultaneously (18 pop taken by miners, put 1 on mana, then get miner hustle) then get some spears, if he doesn't make a castle archer keep attacking with sword, if he gets castle archer, run back and stay in the middle, get a couple more archers (to Harass) at least have 3 then get some speartons as a Meat shield and keep harassing, keep making whatever u want till u think u can destroy his statue

-big map, pretty much the same except start with 3 miners and keep pumping out miners, till u have 18 pop then put 1 on mana, get archers till the miner on mana finishes getting 100 mana, oh and while ur doing this send archers to middle and kite whatever defence they got, then get miner hustle and so on

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Ok so because of the beautiful beautiful patch I am now allowed to...flex my strategy a bit more and I came up with this seemingly solid strategy (that could easily be screwed by swords but what are the odds of that?) anyways
short map- get sw+ ar combo and attack, if he has units there, Kite them to death, if not keep going, leave archer there to capture mid, sword to go scout/harass/distract enemy, if there's a defence send archer and knock it down, if no defence call in archer but keep him out of castle archer range and have sword harass, if he gets castle archer, run, more defences, call in archer and destroy defences, if defence to strong then kite and keep getting miners simultaneously (18 pop taken by miners, put 1 on mana, then get miner hustle) then get some spears, if he doesn't make a castle archer keep attacking with sword, if he gets castle archer, run back and stay in the middle, get a couple more archers (to Harass) at least have 3 then get some speartons as a Meat shield and keep harassing, keep making whatever u want till u think u can destroy his statue

-big map, pretty much the same except start with 3 miners and keep pumping out miners, till u have 18 pop then put 1 on mana, get archers till the miner on mana finishes getting 100 mana, oh and while ur doing this send archers to middle and kite whatever defence they got, then get miner hustle and so on

Comments, constructive stuff, and yeah all that good stuff

HM, seems like my strategy. BUT. I keep getting screwed by swords. I can't kite cuz all they do is get rage quickly :/ and mass swords...

Really!!!??? -fan girl scream- my solution to dat. Is turtle and either magikill or garrasend surprise albows

Actually, I learned this from Pero567, but it's easier if you go 2 miners, and 1 sword. Get 1 more miner when first gold comes in, and if you see them get archer/sword combo, get another sword, and then an archer, this way, u have more eco then them, and one more sword. This would overpower them for a little bit, at least for you to get more miners and a spearton.

hmm...ill have to look into that. thanks krazy