What you think of my gray formation? won many wit it

[Fatb0y]

[][][][C][K][][]
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[S][][][][][E][][][][][DW]
[][][][P][][][][P][][][]
[][K][][][][LW][][][][K][]

Thats basically it usually sent my scout up or pyro's up a square and do some damage and then knight to finish it, later enchantress pops out and helps out :)

Tell me what yall think

-Fatty-

[ALF_hates_you]

Sounds like my strategy.. Looks like my formation..

[Dragonslayers]

Switch the Knight and the Enchantress, and also a Scout with a Pyro. ;)

[Haelix]

See my other posts about Defensive formations to see justifications for what I think. Basically, I think that I could beat that formation.

It's far too spread out. You can't concentrate firepower in a small area, which you need to do to kill units that a cleric is healing.

If your pyro moves up to attack, it leaves itself open to be hit, and I heal up your pyro's damage.

[ReNeGAdE]

my grey formation is totaly pro, but im not gonna advertise it. you can see it as you get your ass kiked by it. its a corner formation and i can beat golds with it most of the time :).

[Choi]

Better than a lot that I've seen but I think that you're too spread out for good support for your units.

[Caanon]

looks ok to me

[Drazil]

While I don't agree with the people who like to clump all of their units into a corner, you still don't have to use up all of your side of the board. I'd recommend you pull in some of your outlying units a bit to improve defence.

Here's my formation, if anyone wants to critique it: [ ][ ][ ][C ][ ][ ][ ]
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[ ][ ][ ][K ][ ][LW][ ][K ][ ][DW][ ]The positions of my scout and witch vary a bit from server to server, but they're all in that general area so that I can sneak in behind a bunch of units with my witch, then finish them off with my scout (or my right-side pyro, if he's not otherwise engaged.)

[ReNeGAdE]

how do you do that code thing? and does it make it easier to write out formations?

[Drazil]

Use the <code> tags.

[Ri'Orius]

Originally posted by ReNeGAdE
how do you do that code thing? and does it make it easier to write out formations?

It makes all characters an equal length. Thus, you can make a grid using different characters but will stay in line.

As for the formation, I agree that it seems a bit too spread out. I use a clumped formation on one side. Thus, if I were playing against you, half your army would be too far away to be very useful.

But then again, maybe this works better for your playstyle.

[Macabre]

not to be mean, but your formation seems kinda spread out making you easy to be killed piece meal.

try to learning some principles of war about mass and overlaping layers of fire/support

[Fatb0y]

Well, i dont use taht formation anymore cause now im gold. But to thoughs who think it was spread out to much, i beg to differ ,lol, becaseu i was 20 0 1 with it beating 2 golds and losing to 1. The two golds i will not mention for there sake.


=P

[LondonJack]

I use this formation whenever i play grey on Banff or Legends, seems to work pretty well.


[C ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
[ ][P ][P ][W ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
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[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
[A ][K ][K ][K ][L ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]

[Choi]

Originally posted by ReNeGAdE
how do you do that code thing? and does it make it easier to write out formations?

You surround the text that you want to display in fixed width characters with [ code ] and [ /code ] (remove the extra spaces).

It makes it much easier to end up with a readable grid like

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_|_|P|P|W|_|_|_|_|_|_
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|A|K|K|K|L|_|_|_|_|_|_|


I just you notepade to edit the grid, since it always uses fixed width characters but you can use any editor if you pick a fixed width font, like Courier New.

[Hashish_Scout]

Choi posted this in another thread in the strategy forum. Really cool. i think every1 should use it:

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