stick to topic and dont question peoples strategies until you try them or have a serious question.
i have a few i've been testing. ive been toying with undead more in depth recently(thanks to rosa), and learned that ghouls pwn with force field, unholy, and chimes, even with no attack upgrades. so i'll give a numbered guide to the way i play them and maybe a replay later. 1. get your build, force field, unholy, sleep, wards, and get out of skill pick fast 2. upgrade 1 attack, ask for pool(if received just keep upgrading attack), hotkey the base, and grab some foots 3. hotkey hero and foots and take wards level 1 and enter the team with least attentive players, or no heroes out of pick yet 4. usually your allies will be out by this time, so ask them to help you and repeat beginning of step 2 until mass. you should have 2-3 attack by start of mass. 5. at mass upgrade wards and unholy till lvl 5 and get sleep at 5. ask for pool during mass for auras so that you can tech afterwards. with your hotkey'd base you should be upgrading foots during mass, even using all your gold(dont reserve ANY) 6. spam wards obvs. as soon as mass breaks on even 1 side tho(u shud be lvl 5 if u broke it), start getting to the other side of the break and wasting heroes' tps(sometimes there will be stupids that dont tp and thats just extra gold). 7. if you can grab enough hk's, tech to ghouls fast as possible(you shouldn't need pool). 8. throughout game upgrade mainly wards and unholy, and harass all heroes that enter middle without their whole team(dont worry about their units). when forcefield is ready take ur 11 ghouls and ur hero and go into lowest level team and in the front of base, use forcefield and wards. attack move your ghouls for massive uk, and if u catch enemy heroes, kill them obvs. 9. stay ghouls till 10 attack and 3 defense upgrades then go berserkers(what i do), or continue undead(just testing it currently). after you hit level 13 start killing teams off. 10. if you cant finish teams straightoff, just stockpile ghouls, use force field and scroll and bk(wards would be for distractions mainly by then).
please post replays if you choose to try this, or if you tech undead, tell us how you did it so we can try it.
Added (2012-02-23, 1:19 AM) --------------------------------------------- i know cheesy, biki, sound, and steve have some cool ones. although unless requested, please dont do the one using wards, devo, veng, and impale/nova with human tech(im pretty sure we all know this one?).
Added (2012-02-23, 1:49 AM) --------------------------------------------- got the replay now and an example of how much pool would be nice(cut it in half tho, my allies pooled me too much for auras). also if you cant see in replay, i had massive lag at mass start and could barely play.
I shall be re-editing this to post replay but this is my tech strat. [If you have stacked team, instead of upgrading footies bfore mass, buy a ward]
1. Dont ask for pool throughout the game 2. Code on 3. Pick Nova, Serpents, Summoning Stone, pheonix 4. Upgrade Footies attack to 1 (Unless your team is stacked, then get POOL and get ward) 5. Upgrade Serpent Level 1 6. Go attend mass 7. Spam Serpents as you keep upgrading attack all throughout the game (You shouldnt even think back of what your doing) 8. Upgrade Nova at Level 2 9. Upgrade Summoning Stone Level 3 AND KEEP SPAMMING THEM DURING MASS 10. At Level 4 (Mass ends), you should have Serpents: Level 1 Frost Nova: Level 2 Summoning Stone: Level 1 11. Go kill pet and rez it if you do not have control over it 12. Buy a shockwave (if you cant afford, keep nova-ing then warding footies [Camp in enemy base] 13. Buy a rat (Check which bases have most footies) 14. Go wave in that base and quickly tp back base 15. Buy tome of level 16. You should be by now: Serpents: Level 1 Frost Nova: Level 3 Summoning Stone: Level 3 Pheonix: Level 1 And Attack Level around +11
17. Go MASS RAID with all your army to one base (pet follows u) 18. Use summoning Stone there and keep summoning (NAGA SIRENS MOST IMPORTANT CAUSE THEY HAVE OPPED ATTACK THAT SUMMONS SH3Z [better than d arrow if you have high upgrade] (Also spam Frost Nova and Serpent Wards) 19. Camp in the base (Buy Potion if you have to) [Attack should be around +14] with you level 10 (CAMP TILL ENEMY DIES) 20. Buy another shockwave and AIM at a base 21. You should be level 12 (if you failed mass raid, if you didnt, around level 14) by now: 22. Go tp home and tome AGAIN 23. Spells now: Frost Nova: Level 5 Serpents: Level 1 Summoning Level 5 Pheonix: Level 2 And Attack Level around +16 24. Go run in another base AND SPAM NAGA GUARDS (upgrade net ability 150 gold) 25. Since ALL nagas have cleave w/ high damage, mass armies should be just feed (especially with Frost Nova level 5) 26. By now you shall be Level 14 (AT LEAST) and buy endurance aura and owl 27. Use summoning stone to make 4 Naga Guards and (3 turtles if you are of level) and Naga Sirens (For Ice/Poison Arrow Effect) 28. Hot key ALL UNITS to #1 (Control/Command+1) 29. Hot Key 4 Naga Guard to #2 (Control/Command+2) 30. Go camp in mid and everytime you see a hero, do this IN ORDER
"1", "N", "2", "E", 1.5 Second Pause, "E", "1", "N", "W", "2", "E", "E" What this does is Nova => Net => Net => Nova => Ward => Net etc.
31. If you have OVERFLOW of gold, START TECH NOW! (Attack Level 19 to UP) ***Overflow means over 2.4k gold 32. Upgrade STRAIGHT to troll beserkers and only HP and (some defense) 33. While your teching, you should have gotten ALOT of HK cause you were camping in mid 34. Hero should be AT LEAST LEVEL 16 by now: Frost Nova: Level 6 Pheonix: Level 3 Ward: Level 2 Summoning stone: Level 5 (Level 6 if there is alot of aoe and your pissed at level 10s) [Level 6 has unlimited mana shield spell with NO CD]
35. Go just BK WITH BASE with both TROLLS and Summoning + Serpents (Level 6) + Pheonix 36. Say JAJAJJAJAJAJA 37. Never play the same game style to the players since they may learn of Jammy (Jammy is counterable throughout the game. Buy a mana dragon and in hold near the base and hotkey as #3 ("F" for mana burn))
38. Enjoy. This build NEVER failed me recently cause there are no pros when I play
