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07-13-2006, 07:48 PM
Beast Rider Stratergy
The Beast Rider (BR) is, by far, the least used unit on all of TAO. This is rather unfortunate, because, as you’re about to learn, its prime era has long passed, even during which it wasn’t widely used. Still, it maintains a certain level of usefulness, plus, its relative lack of use means you can easily surprise an opponent with skillful BR use.
I’ll start with a basic summary of the BR, then a little background on the BR in relation to the time periods of TAO, and then explain its uses in detail.
First, I’m going to make a general assumption here that everyone knows how the BR works. If you don’t, read the unit description.
Now, the BR is a very unique unit, mainly because it’s the only “ranged” unit with 1 recovery. This means you can rapidly attack people, even those that are blocked by other units, and still have tons of time to get out. The BR doesn’t do a huge amount of damage, but 19 does mean that a muddy quake will finish off a cleric. For the most part, don’t view the BR as a powerful unit; view it as a unit that can infiltrate. (people). It’s extremely fast, so it can run around from hot spot to hot spot to deal with trouble. This is all basic knowledge, for the most part. If you read the unit description or the other review(s), this is about the full extent of the information you’ll receive.
The BR has an interesting history with TAO. Upon its release, it didn’t have much popularity, but a few people did rise to prominence with it. Aro23r gained a huge amount of fame with it, and to a lesser extent so did Lord Achilles. The problem is, though, that the BR came out before even the Furgon and muddy quake were created. He was created for a time when infiltration was a necessity, because otherwise all you had were two equal armies bashing each other. The rush wasn’t popular, and when the Furgon came out, infiltration was the only way to go. This is where the BR was fit; it had the speed and ability to do a job that led to victory, something many units could not do.
With the mudquake, the BR became a little less needed, because you didn’t need to infiltrate, you could just quake and run in. The BR began to lose the little appeal it once had. Carefully planned attacks of specificity and cunning were losing their value as a simple smash and attack job fit the scene better.
Now, with the rush in the game, the BR has almost completely lost its appeal. Nobody simply infiltrates a defensive formation, they bust into it with all their strength.
With all this said, the BR might seem to have lost a huge amount of appeal. However, don’t lose faith yet. While small, the BR still has some use in today’s TAO gaming society.
Ok, if your going to use 2 beast riders I would use them in a turtle.First you need to stone your units stone golum will give 30 armor to beast riders.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6990/beast32vd.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beast32vd.jpg)
Second, Click on the beast rider whenyou are going to attack try to go for 2 units not 1 because the beast rider canattack 2 units.
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9987/beast25ou.th.jpg (http://img109.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beast25ou.jpg)
Then Click on the red box and attack.
Well Thats the stratergy for today have a good day.
Thank You Monkus for the help.
The Beast Rider (BR) is, by far, the least used unit on all of TAO. This is rather unfortunate, because, as you’re about to learn, its prime era has long passed, even during which it wasn’t widely used. Still, it maintains a certain level of usefulness, plus, its relative lack of use means you can easily surprise an opponent with skillful BR use.
I’ll start with a basic summary of the BR, then a little background on the BR in relation to the time periods of TAO, and then explain its uses in detail.
First, I’m going to make a general assumption here that everyone knows how the BR works. If you don’t, read the unit description.
Now, the BR is a very unique unit, mainly because it’s the only “ranged” unit with 1 recovery. This means you can rapidly attack people, even those that are blocked by other units, and still have tons of time to get out. The BR doesn’t do a huge amount of damage, but 19 does mean that a muddy quake will finish off a cleric. For the most part, don’t view the BR as a powerful unit; view it as a unit that can infiltrate. (people). It’s extremely fast, so it can run around from hot spot to hot spot to deal with trouble. This is all basic knowledge, for the most part. If you read the unit description or the other review(s), this is about the full extent of the information you’ll receive.
The BR has an interesting history with TAO. Upon its release, it didn’t have much popularity, but a few people did rise to prominence with it. Aro23r gained a huge amount of fame with it, and to a lesser extent so did Lord Achilles. The problem is, though, that the BR came out before even the Furgon and muddy quake were created. He was created for a time when infiltration was a necessity, because otherwise all you had were two equal armies bashing each other. The rush wasn’t popular, and when the Furgon came out, infiltration was the only way to go. This is where the BR was fit; it had the speed and ability to do a job that led to victory, something many units could not do.
With the mudquake, the BR became a little less needed, because you didn’t need to infiltrate, you could just quake and run in. The BR began to lose the little appeal it once had. Carefully planned attacks of specificity and cunning were losing their value as a simple smash and attack job fit the scene better.
Now, with the rush in the game, the BR has almost completely lost its appeal. Nobody simply infiltrates a defensive formation, they bust into it with all their strength.
With all this said, the BR might seem to have lost a huge amount of appeal. However, don’t lose faith yet. While small, the BR still has some use in today’s TAO gaming society.
Ok, if your going to use 2 beast riders I would use them in a turtle.First you need to stone your units stone golum will give 30 armor to beast riders.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6990/beast32vd.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beast32vd.jpg)
Second, Click on the beast rider whenyou are going to attack try to go for 2 units not 1 because the beast rider canattack 2 units.
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9987/beast25ou.th.jpg (http://img109.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beast25ou.jpg)
Then Click on the red box and attack.
Well Thats the stratergy for today have a good day.
Thank You Monkus for the help.