Quote from isgood

I rage start myself, as it beats many starts on medium and medium-small maps. But then about 60% of the time my opponent does the same start, and I have 2 choices: give up middle and turtle, or do a rage fight. My turtling skills suck, and from my Experiences rage fights are almost entiringly based on luck. I mean how do micro through a sword madness? The rage fight usually doesn't start until we both have about 5 or more swords, and attacking onE by one doesn't work if your talking about over 4 swords. It's really frustrating so please help! :)

Quote from neckromorph

easy, castle archer

Quote from THEFORCE

Bad eco...

Quote from DragonFrost

Bad Eco: bad economy, meaning you don't enough miners to have a decent economy

Quote from jli

There are tiny tricks you can use to nudge the outcome of a rage on rage battle in your favor. One thing THEFORCE mentioned was to get a group (minimum of 3) of archers, but that sets you back on sword production, so that only works if you have excellent macro and kiting skills.

Quote from THEFORCE

OK. That might work. What concerns me that I saw a replay of someone who sword massed with rage and then got it low on swords and a bit higher on archers. He had the opponent back for a moment. But the opponent won.(Note: The opponent was rage massing too.) But to be fair, he only won with a giant. But that doesn't mean his start got beaten. That mean that getting archers after swords is a good idea. To make it more specific, The guy who lost had like 4 archers and queuing 2 more. while the other one had only 3 archers but masses of swords. Weirdly, The one with sword mass gone for the swords instead of archers. And he lost all of them. But if he gone for archer, It could have been a different story. It might work. But I'm unsure.

Quote from jli

The thing with archer massing is that if the sword masser is smart and gets just ONE spearton your plan is foiled.

Quote from jojamajo

I get this alot on small maps, and thats the thing i dont like about them. Therefore, my starter for the game is usually training three miners. After they are all trained, sometimes the opponent might send out a few swordies, or maybe at the start the sword-archer combo. I usually cancel out any training for the miners, and build castle archer as soon as possible. One time, i was too late in canceling out a miner, and i couldnt afford a castle archer, and since he kept attacking, not letting me get gold, i lost the game. i was so annoyed cuz i only neede like 50 gold, but castle archer IS VITAL in small maps pretty much. most of my losses (14) are against chaos. i have 69 wins, and am on the top 100. CASTLE ARCHER IS A HAVE TO ON A SMALL MAP.