miner/archer seems best for me on short maps like castle and desert.
your enabled to obtain your second archer a few seconds earlier than the opponent and easier to press ahead into spear.
as long as your not stupid enough to lose your archer you can kill his arch before it can retreat by using sword kiting or forward kiting with archer.
ps: sword kiting is something that i started doing to catch kiting archers that are low on health. not advisable on full health arch.
with miner/arch youll constantly be 75 ahead should you play correctly. deciding whether to buy a sword/miner/ or arch should be a matter of common sense. if your opponent goes into army and neglects eco buy units to be only slightly ahead to win the standoff. if you obtain tower youll have a little bit more leeway to go into miners without falling behind in army size.
ps: try to buy the spear before you go for tower spawn. a definite spear is always better than hoping the upgrade loads and losing plus you can get the tower spawn at any point in time. if you cant buy a spear with your eco it makes little sense to hope you dont get attacked. cant stress this enough

i get (on ALL maps except the 2 longest ones) 1miner then 1 archer and i never sacrifice tower, even when they get sword archer. Also if against SA sword archer and you get miner archer fight till ur dude has low health and then hide him behind ur sword as some player will stop aiming at him

Miner/Archer < Miner/Miner/Sword. Gives a better economy, and you can stream miner/sword and get archer later, leaving you with a larger army (and a larger economy).

miner/archer seems best for me on short maps like castle and desert.
your enabled to obtain your second archer a few seconds earlier than the opponent and easier to press ahead into spear.
as long as your not stupid enough to lose your archer you can kill his arch before it can retreat by using sword kiting or forward kiting with archer.
ps: sword kiting is something that i started doing to catch kiting archers that are low on health. not advisable on full health arch.
with miner/arch youll constantly be 75 ahead should you play correctly. deciding whether to buy a sword/miner/ or arch should be a matter of common sense. if your opponent goes into army and neglects eco buy units to be only slightly ahead to win the standoff. if you obtain tower youll have a little bit more leeway to go into miners without falling behind in army size.
ps: try to buy the spear before you go for tower spawn. a definite spear is always better than hoping the upgrade loads and losing plus you can get the tower spawn at any point in time. if you cant buy a spear with your eco it makes little sense to hope you dont get attacked. cant stress this enough

Games generally shouldn't be lasting that long so you can tech into spears...if that happens, players aren't aggressive enough on a short map. Miner/archer is a valid strat, but they actually can get the archer faster than you because they have a stronger economy when they have tower (3.5 miners > 3 miners). Sometimes an archer/sword/sword/archer can work in favour of a sword/archer start.

Neglecting eco =/= going army. On short maps, you literally stream sword/archer -> sword sword sword (maybe an archer here and there), unless you need to catch up on economy, but by then you've lost if you've dropped that much economy and can't pressure him for going miner heavy.

Castle leaves no room for Archer/Miner.

Go Sword/Archer on castle-swamp and maybe desert.

You have room for Archer/Miner on H'ween-Desert (Desert being the best map for it)

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Castle leaves no room for Archer/Miner.

Go Sword/Archer on castle-swamp and maybe desert.

You have room for Archer/Miner on H'ween-Desert (Desert being the best map for it)

^_^ finally someone with the same opinion as my ^_^ I also think archer-miner on castle is bad cause of this very little map size ^_^