Ok, sorry. That is the late game army. Usually the mid-game army is like a couple of spears in shield wall and 2-3 rows of archers. I guess seeing those archers in mid game made me overreact and call it an archer mass, even though, if I survive to late game, they have a balanced army.

To rekt mass archers pick them off one by one. Order takes shitloads of efforts to keep archers alive. Trust me.

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To rekt mass archers pick them off one by one. Order takes shitloads of efforts to keep archers alive. Trust me.

Poison spray is way faster.

Use crawlers with all the upgrades, and some jugger knights, and bombers, that could work, it works for me sometimes

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Poison spray is way faster.

No it isn't. You are stalling their approach. In a non laggy game they are typically smart enough to stop and run back.

5-8 rows of archers with CA3 = gg order

with chaos, you just need to stall and pull off making 8+ bombers

then rush and kill his archers

the pattern of arrows movement and archer/bomber placement thingy causes the arrows from kiting to not kill all the bombers
all you need is 3 bombers to kill them all

Ahem Ahem.. I think me, being the order player I am, should give advice on how to play chaos. (Because that makes sense lol). Alright... Archer mass is probably almost the most painful o v c situation to be c in. However, There are a couple of ways to counter it. You could A. Get a giant or two paired with deads and just force the player back all the way, then throw down a venom flux so they cannot get passed their second row of gold (if walls) or statue (if no walls) as well as stone facing the spellcasters. You could B. Get some marrowkai action, get like 3 or something and just start reaping them 1 by 1, reap any ninjas that want to shinobi you. You could C. Attack all in with giants or a bunch of jugs for tanks, deads, and keep 4+ bombers behind until you find the right moment to strike, efficiently destroying the archer army, you can throw in a little venom flux to increase the likely hood of actually clapping the archers. You could D. Prevent that from happening in the first place by pressuring eco, or you can do the all popular version E. Lay down and die, then ask how to solve the issues in a Chaos Empire Strategy Forum. ;D

Marrowkais and Bombers

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Marrowkais and Bombers

Wait.. are you saying I shouldn't even bother with ranged units or meatshields or even crawlers to fight for tower? Thanks for this amazing strategy I will try it out right away.

Marrows + Bombers + Juggs + Deads works decently.

The marrows eat down archers gradually and bombs force archers to stop constant firing while they dodge, so the Juggs don't get so badly mowed down against Spears and Archers.

I can find a replay of me doing in in a prep if you want.

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Marrows + Bombers + Juggs + Deads works decently.

The marrows eat down archers gradually and bombs force archers to stop constant firing while they dodge, so the Juggs don't get so badly mowed down against Spears and Archers.

I can find a replay of me doing in in a prep if you want.

What do you do if opponent has ninjas picking away your marrows?

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What do you do if opponent has ninjas picking away your marrows?

You reap them dumbass

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You reap them dumbass

Then you wouldn't be reaping the archers, isn't that the whole point of the marrow's? At least that is what the earlier posts said. Plus, shinobi ahead of time or just wait out the reap. For example, bait the reap and run back as much as possible, so you won't go as far. Then boom. Shinobi.

why are you reaping archers

that's what you do in a normal spear archer situation. you don't want to tempt spers onto your deads or marrow you remove the dps from order by reaping them and using hell fists (which probably need a range buff)