Warcraft 2 - human mission 14 - destroy portal - help
dwight woodard
initial forces get wiped out too quickly, and the orcs keep sending
out dragons to mop up my peasants?
Kenneth Tan
You'll need a swift and decisive, well coordinated, initial attack.
(I myself did it a dozen times or so to get it right).
Pack all your knights into 1 transport, and the rest of the footmen and
catapults into another transport.
Group all your ships and transports and head to the SW corner of the map.
(Then comes the part that requires a lot of coordination):
Select all the warships and attack 1 of the towers; unload the 2 transports
to take out the catapults and the other 2 towers.
If you survive this, you're safe. Pack your peasants into the transport and
start building your base (while the rest of them mop up the place).
Build groups of 3 guard towers to pick dragons out of the sky!
Automan
J.Y.Zhou
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> start building your base (while the rest of them mop up the place).
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> Build groups of 3 guard towers to pick dragons out of the sky!
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> Automan
Build the townhall, then the lumber mill, then start to build
the guard towers immediately.
J.Y.Zhou
Jason I. Hong
: >Can anyone give me some tips on the best way to start this mission. My
: >initial forces get wiped out too quickly, and the orcs keep sending
: >out dragons to mop up my peasants?
: You should be able to take your battleship and 2 destroyers and take
: out all the towers and catapults without any ground landing. I was
: able to do this after getting slaughtered 5 or 6 times trying ground
: invasions with the sea backup.
I sent in my attack ships first and dropped my troops on ground to help take
out the towers faster. The destroyers helped to fend off a few dragons from
the east (until they were sunk).
: From there, you'll need to establish a base as soon as possible and
: start defending against seemingless endless dragon attacks. Give that
: a try, and if you get to the mid game, check out my other post.
Guard towers help out a lot, but look out for the death mages. The computer
nails me _every_ time :(
Upgrading archers is important too (especially because of the dragons), so
that was on of the first things I did.
One thing to notice is that there is a mini peninsula right above where you
start. I left a ballista there after no more dragons attacked from the east,
and the ballista took out the ogre-mages just lying there.
If you can survive the dragons, then its just a matter of cleaning up.
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-Jason I. Hong (ho...@cc.gatech.edu)
Henry Houh
>Can anyone give me some tips on the best way to start this mission. My
>initial forces get wiped out too quickly, and the orcs keep sending
>out dragons to mop up my peasants?
You should be able to take your battleship and 2 destroyers and take
out all the towers and catapults without any ground landing. I was
able to do this after getting slaughtered 5 or 6 times trying ground
invasions with the sea backup.
From there, you'll need to establish a base as soon as possible and
start defending against seemingless endless dragon attacks. Give that
a try, and if you get to the mid game, check out my other post.
It takes a lot of time, but it's doable with the resources available.
Henry
Paul Spencer
>dwight woodard wrote:
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>> Can anyone give me some tips on the best way to start this mission. My
>> initial forces get wiped out too quickly, and the orcs keep sending
>> out dragons to mop up my peasants?
>Yap, I have tried thousands of times but still couldnt get it through.
>Finally , I cheated with 'This is a good day to die'.
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Nooo, It's easy honest, build lot's of GUARD towers not Cannon towers
as they can't shoot Dragons, once you have a few you'll find they kill
the Dragons long before the Dragons destroy the tower, then have a
Peon ready to repair before the next wave of Dragons appear. Later
when you've developed Mages you can 'pig-em', transform them as soon
as they appear.
John Tsau
The starting spells for mages are good, too. Two 100 spell point fireballs
can take out a dragon. Thats good for slowing 'em down.
Christopher J. Rasmus
than the dragons and you only lose a few archers every dragon. Later, I
built a ring of guard towers with an archer between each. I played a war
of attrition - they played out their mine long before I did mine by having
to buy 2500 dragons every few minutes. I ended up having around 50 archers
by the end of the scenario.
Brian Michael Scholl
Build nothing but archers, and keep your mages away anyone else.
Use your fireballs. I spread out my archers wit quite a distance between
them so they all don't take a hit from the dragon attacks. Also,
assigining them into groups is good too, then you can alt-select them to
attack the dragons.
After you have 30 or so archers, dragons won't be a problem.
Make sure they aren't all bunched up in little groups.
Go for the gold mine up north.
Brian.