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Building a Town

  • This is extremely vital.  First, you'll want to observe how your opponent builds his town.  If he is the type that likes to build his town before making defenders, take advantage of this.  Make many guys, go over, crush their few defenders, and win.

    On the other hand, if he make several guys, make sure to do the same.  Once you have a strong defense, then start to upgrade your town, and expand it.   Also, build priority buildings like Ogre Mounds and Temple of the Damned first.  You don't want the other player sending Ogre-Magi against you while you still have Grunts!

    Many, many Peasants are the key to multi-player.  Make at least 10, maybe more.  The object is to try to keep ahead of the enemy at all times!  The more gold you have, the faster you can expand, more guys you can make, faster you can upgrade, etc.

    Unlike the original Warcraft, you cannot "ban" units.  For instance, you cannot remove the creation of magic guys.  For this, make sure to have a bunch of those guys, and keep them well defended.  Also keep a steady supply of Ballistas/Catapults.