Quote from Wyrmspawn

Actually, this works for me. I tested it several times.

Mid game, the enemy has 3 speartons, 3 archers.

You have nothing but a miner wall and level 1 castle archer and miners.

Make a spearton, send at the enemy, they will move all troops to kill your spearton.

The reason?

They can't send two spearton back to attack you, becasue the spearton left to attack your base will get killed by castle archer.

They can't leave the archers behind, because the next spearton you make will rush their unprotected archers. This works.

Why can't they send two speartons back to attack you? One spearton to tank while the archers go in and deal damage....archers with swordwrath/spearton tanking is a classic strategy...let's be honest, spearton soaks up level 1 castle archer damage like a sponge and water.

In fact, why on earth would you send speartons to attack the spearton charging in the first place? If it's a short map, it won't buy you much time...if it's a long map, then by the time he gets over to your base, UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY BAD AT MAKING UNITS, you should have a spearton in production that's almost finished/finished, maybe another unit.

Also, you assume that they will move all their troops to attack your spearton.

I don't pretend to be pro at this game; but this strategy just doesn't look like it would cut it to me.

Quote from Wyrmspawn

Actually, this works for me. I tested it several times.

Mid game, the enemy has 3 speartons, 3 archers.

You have nothing but a miner wall and level 1 castle archer and miners.

Make a spearton, send at the enemy, they will move all troops to kill your spearton.

The reason?

They can't send two spearton back to attack you, becasue the spearton left to attack your base will get killed by castle archer.

They can't leave the archers behind, because the next spearton you make will rush their unprotected archers. This works.

He can counter this by simply making a CA and miner wall. Look, he has Eco and army way ahead of you. Even if 1 or 2 miners of his die, it won't bother him much. He's waaaay ahead.

Plus, what if he storms your miners. Garrison will put you behind in Eco. They way I see it, the chances of this working is very, very low.

Actually fatty does this, but the conditions and timing are different. In early/mid game, When you have some swords and archers and are getting a spearton he does this to stall your forces out long enough so that he can set up his classic impenetrable wall of a meric, a wall, and spearton in shield wall. And he basically forces you to move away by attacking your archers, therefore making you either kite or die. Note the differences in the situations. He does this pretty early, and is not necessarily at a disadvantage when he does this. You also cannot just attack his miners, as you lack in the proper tech/ power to overwhelm his castle archer and spearton (which can just block your arrows). Also, due to this being fairly early game, his combination/welcome reception is enough to handle whatever you through at him (at least, long enough to get a mage and scare you off) whereas your doing this at mid/late game, so the spearton dies faster, and you do this when you are at a disadvantage (By then, you should just surrender :/) Also, any forces that you do manage to scrape together probably wont be enough to hold off his next attack.