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To begin, start by creating one archer and one swordsman as well as setting your miners on the closer gold deposit. When your sword finishes position him near your miners, and wait untill your archer finishes before scouting. Send your archer AHEAD of your swordsman and go take middle. If they have the same unit composition, let your archer tank the first archer shot and then pull back and let your sword attack in front as a tank. Gain control of mid. DO NOT FORGET TO BUILD MINERS EVERY CHANCE YOU GET.


2.

Now you will be reacting to the enemy. scout with your archer leading and sword behind again, and scout out his mineral line. If he has no units and no castle archers take out a miner and harrass him effectivley cutting off his mineral supply, continue making miners. If he has castle archers, continue building miners. If he is praying, immediatly get castle archer and wall as he will be sending a spearton most likely. It is no threat however so do not waste money on troops, just set up your walls and keep those miners coming. I forgot to mention, @ 4 miners put your next one on your statue to pray.

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Now you really begin to go your own way depending on the situation you are in. You want to start training archers now, and at around 3:00 you want to have a spearton finished. Not a lot of speartons however, focus on archers and miners. Grab the passive upgrade all 3 times while you slowly expand on your troops. When you feel financially stable get both spearton upgrades and use whenever possible, this will keep you alive. You want roughly a line and a half (so 7 or 8) archers, 4 or 5 speartons, 2-3 healers, and 2 wizards. Get all castle archer upgrades and hold your ground until they attack. Use wizards to their fullest, use archer abilities and pick off the wizards, then healers, then archers, than the rest. Counter attack, win.



TIPS

1. Use the archers flame ability non stop to harass the enemy lighting them on fire or picking at their miners.
2. If you go for an early wizard be sure to harrass with poisen
3. If the enemy is clearly going giants and has middle, you need to start playing aggressive and stock up on giants.
4. Upgrade everything. Use every upgrade.
5. If the enemy is going mass speartons, grab some flying archers. They do great damage, can snipe off pesky healers and wizards, and are tougher than archers to kill.
6. If the game is drawn out for a long time and you have nearly everything, begin sacrificing archers/speartons for giants. Eventually you may end up with 4/5 giants, 4/5 healers, and 2 wizards. This will crush your enemy if you wait for the counter attack.

Also, if you are very good at micro managing grabbing 2 ninja's to take out 2 of their healers or wizards is not a bad idea at all. The stealth will kill 2 primary units almost guaranteeing a win if you are keeping up with your other units, and the dps alone will let them probably kill 1 or 2 more squishy units in the back before your opponent relies-es they have lost and kills them.

Haven't seen u here often. What's your rating?
By what you wrote you seem I have some knowledge however may be lacking in other areas. Sword/archer start whilst effective on short maps leaves you with little Eco. If you go miners after sword arch and your opponent goes an extra sword as usual you will be forced back away from Eco putting you behind and effectively losing you the game.
Walls aren't always necessary just so u know.
Magikills whilst good in areas where one is behind in army vs mass number of units using it without cause isn't always necessary. Early magikill is bad as if your Eco can support it you'll have little army and if you're army can support it you'll have little Eco.
If love to play a game with ya sometime.
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