Many people think swordwrath is weak and useless in battles, but they can unleash their true power if they have good cooperation with other units, however, swordwraths are quite weak in late game, (I know :( ), so do this in mid-game

Now let me introduce two specials uses of swordwraths

Situation 1: Camper! And you need to siege him!

They have a castle archer? Camping? No problem! Just get some swordwraths and ONE spearton! Research shield mode and rage


Now, get your spearton FIRST into the castle archer's range, and activate shield mode


So while your spearton is eating arrows, storm to the enemy's base with your swordwraths


Now, the enemy's stupid castle archer is still shooting your spearton, your swordwraths are safe from the castle archer now! Happy pwning!


Situation 2: Albowtross mass! They have fucking speartons killing my archers! My giants ain't fast enough to kill them!

First, get some archers and some speartons and some swordwraths behind, as the picture shown


Second, you go and kill those fucking albowtross, the enemy's speartons may wanted to kill your archers


Third, when the enemy's speartons passed your speartons and start killing your archers, move your swordwraths and rage on them, so you can be fast enough to kill those speartons and save your archers from extinction lol, do this behind your speartons, your swordwraths will be save from enemy's albowtross arrows rain


Situation 3: Enemy massing archers! They are coming to capture the middle!

Step 1: Get a spearton (archers is optional) and some swordwraths behind


Step 2: Select all your melee units and attack/aim ONE archer only


Step 3: If they run away, keep chasing them, remember, always aim ONE archer, and aim the lowest hp one


Note: If they go behind walls, and they have enough archers to kill your swordwraths, retreat, and get some archer+speartons shield mode to destroy the walls, then call your swordwraths to chase those archers with rage

Example replay: www.stickempires.com/play?replay=replay2244297&version=1.70



So that is all for my swordwraths noob tutorial! If you have any other interesting swordwraths tactic, feel free to post them here!

Now Buddy the magikill comes! I have to rage quit! D:


P.S. Raging is perfect for retreating XD

After learning how to USE swordwraths, you may want to learn how to stack up their numbers to gather their power
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?79289-Swordwrath-starting-tactics&p=1134020#post1134020

WOW...not bad ;) you are really a swordwrath general ;)
And nice pics, love them ;)

*Sprays Poison* "Good Luck getting back to garrison" :p

*Swords Die*

*Ninja comes* "Oh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" QUICK!, to the fictional BuddyChoppa

*Buddy controls the Choppa* "Phew, That ninja can't get me up here"
...
Hello there buddy (Evil Bomber Voice) *Buddy turns around* "WyzDM! OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" *Wyz the bomber blows buddy out of the choppa*
...
Wyz: "Termination Complete"

Yes as many of you know I like to make stupid joke stories and that^ is another one of mine :P

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*Sprays Poison* "Good Luck getting back to garrison" :p

*Swords Die*

*Ninja comes* "Oh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" QUICK!, to the fictional BuddyChoppa

*Buddy controls the Choppa* "Phew, That ninja can't get me up here"
...
Hello there buddy (Evil Bomber Voice) *Buddy turns around* "WyzDM! OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" *Wyz the bomber blows buddy out of the choppa*
...
Wyz: "Termination Complete"

Yes as many of you know I like to make stupid joke stories and that^ is another one of mine :P

More like:
*Sprays poison*
*Azxc the Swordwrath General commands the swordwraths to run diagonally upwards, avoiding the poison*
"Awww."

:p

But on topic, this is a very informative thread, some people (ahem: Gale) refuse to acknowledge the power o' swordwrath.

Your missing just one incy little precaution needed, shadowrath. They cut through defenses like no other, they may not be very good tower destroyers but when that magikill comes in you gonna need him. Giants are your friend so archidons may not be the only thing needed to take down those pesky albowtross, and what happens if the enemy decides to micro and send his archidons OVER your speartons, or cut the albowtross in half so their is a couple in front of the speartons and behind them? That way he is getting both sides forcing your speartons to un shield or just try your best to get them to safety by sacrificing swordwrath. I await your reply..... (NOTE I am only in the 1400's but I've been as far as 1600 but then the second great lag wave came and brought me down majorly.

If your enemy managed to get THAT many albowtross's with blazing bolts then chances are he would micro them.

Above 2200s, swords are very good and its a must on ice hills, forest, and gates. On other maps they suck.

Hmmm, maybe I should make a tutorial about shadowrath too...

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Your missing just one incy little precaution needed, shadowrath. They cut through defenses like no other, they may not be very good tower destroyers but when that magikill comes in you gonna need him. Giants are your friend so archidons may not be the only thing needed to take down those pesky albowtross, and what happens if the enemy decides to micro and send his archidons OVER your speartons, or cut the albowtross in half so their is a couple in front of the speartons and behind them? That way he is getting both sides forcing your speartons to un shield or just try your best to get them to safety by sacrificing swordwrath. I await your reply..... (NOTE I am only in the 1400's but I've been as far as 1600 but then the second great lag wave came and brought me down majorly.

If your enemy managed to get THAT many albowtross's with blazing bolts then chances are he would micro them.

Firstly, you said giants can replace archers, yeah, they can, but too slow to kill albowtross, I plenty sure that 5 archers kill faster than 1 gaint
Secondly, you said "enemy decides to micro" (lol) and send his archers OVER my speartons, that is surely suicide, I will call my speartons to kill those archers
And for other points I don't quite understand, can you tell me more, or tell me more clearly?

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Hmmm, maybe I should make a tutorial about shadowrath too...

lol, this tutorial is inspired by Buddy's magikill tutorial :P

Well nice to know my Magikill Tips had some Influence/Inspiration for you Azxc :)

P.S. Did you see my joke post on this thread? :p

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Hmmm, maybe I should make a tutorial about shadowrath too...

That would be really great :) And not only shadowrath, a tutorial about other units would be really great too...

It looks like it would be great to make a tutorial thread for every single unit in stickempires. But not really. It's a sacrifice; you must be respected to make a thread like that. If you're a player like Wyzdom and you made a thread on any unit of order or chaos, nobody would dispute you. But if you're an 1800s player, and you make a thread about something, even if it is your best unit, you're going to get laughed out of the forums... make a thread like that at your own risks, guys. Just saying.

Well, when it has pics i am always looking at it ;)

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It looks like it would be great to make a tutorial thread for every single unit in stickempires. But not really. It's a sacrifice; you must be respected to make a thread like that. If you're a player like Wyzdom and you made a thread on any unit of order or chaos, nobody would dispute you. But if you're an 1800s player, and you make a thread about something, even if it is your best unit, you're going to get laughed out of the forums... make a thread like that at your own risks, guys. Just saying.

Well it depends on the thread being retarded or not.

And it clearly is good to counter turtlers, even for somebody sbove top 50

Definitely. But a magikill, like the tutorial said, pretty much ends all the fun.