My 3 men army

[NoEscape]

I plan to have 3 clerics, 3 witches, and 3 knights, and one good unit of any, u think u can gimme hints?

[monkus]

I highly doubt that formation can truly act effectively. First, anything more than 2 clerics tends to not be very effective, unless you use them as a destraction, as I saw one strange formation do. If you have to heal that frequently, you will only have 1 out of every 4 turns to act. Otherwise, you are just wasting a valuable spot on the team. 1 cleric is standard, while some formations make use of 2, but 3 is truly excessive.

Also, witches will be killed quite easily, even with constant healing. If I hit a witch of yours with a scout, it will be reduced to 10 hp. Even if you heal it, it'll still die from a Knight strike or a witch burn attack. Plus, the witch's very long recovery time means it won't be running very soon.

Every unit has its faults, which is why the makers of TAO blessed us with a variety of units. Clerics are extremely important in most formations, yet you don't see a formation with 5 clerics, because the disadvantages of clerics, namely their inability to attack, and their low hp and defense, means that it's not wise to have many of them. Witches are very powerful, yet if you use 3 of them recklessly, you'll see them die before they can inflict enough damage to make up for their spot (I say recklessly because occasionally a formation with many witches can work, just it is not a standardly used formation). If you create a formation with a variety of units, each can input its uses, and one can make up for another's weaknesses.

[Shadowfury333]

My formation makes use of 0(zero i.e. none) Clerics. Since I don't use them enough they aren't exactly worth the cost of an offensive unit.

Edit: I've started using a cleric again.

[wbwgr]

I played someone that use 2 clerics, 3 witchs, a scout, 3 knights and a LW. He had a knight rush in the beggining to kill most of my stuff making a point of taking out the cleric. once he had kill/lowered the hp of all my units, he came in with the 3 witches to finish me off. in the end, i was very much dead, and he was very much still alive...

oh and btw i was playing him with a grey accout...not a gold.

[Bottle]

How would I deal with that? Kill the witches with my knights, and the knights would be frozen by my chanties. As stated about, every unit has it's weakness.

My favourite grey form has 2 clerics, 3 knights, scout, LW, 2 chanties and a BW. It has taken down many good golds when I had opposite sides. Use the knights one at a time, with scout support to prevent them being frozen, and use the old attack-heal-attack-heal technique. Continue until all rnged attackers are dead, then freeze the dragon and any leftover units with the chanties, sacficing one if necessary and making liberal use of the barrier. But you HAVE TO KILL THE SCOUTS EARLY.

[xyxaxyz2]

Which is near impossible against a gold of any skill if they have a stone and cleric in their army....

[Bottle]

Well, it's been said before... the best grey cannot beat a good gold.

[JC86]

depends, unfortunally this server doesn't realease mud drops, but it depends, but i agree with you

[Bottle]

I presume you're from legends, then. Well then, you'll quickly find how useful the extra scout is against any opponent, it really does make it hard for a grey to win. I look forward to playing you then, and sorry about my comment earlier ;)

[JC86]

hey sorry about my comment, i was a lil rude, i know about the extra scout is quite nice, and i found a friend of mine lend me his gold account, i'm sure if you were to face me you could very possibe win, since i'm not use to the dual scouts but i hope to get more acquainted to it, by the way nice meeting you

[xyxaxyz2]

the best grey cannot beat a good gold.

I disagree...from personal experience...if the conditions are right, I can beat most good golds.

[Bottle]

Oh and nice banner too, but it really slows down my computer...

[JC86]

Originally posted by Bottle
Oh and nice banner too, but it really slows down my computer...


funny my apologies

[BlackSyphon]

xyxaxyz2, what is the first unit you try to kill against a gold, do you use a chanty, will you share your strategy? All of you statements and feats you have preformed are both remarkable and intriging to me. Will you share your thoughts?

du:)