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Old 12-10-2003, 03:44 PM   #1
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What you think of my gray formation? won many wit it

[][][][C][K][][]
[][][][][][][][][]
[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

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Old 12-10-2003, 06:38 PM   #2
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Sounds like my strategy.. Looks like my formation..
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Old 12-10-2003, 08:34 PM   #3
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Switch the Knight and the Enchantress, and also a Scout with a Pyro.
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Old 12-10-2003, 11:05 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 12-10-2003, 11:43 PM   #5
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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 .
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Old 12-11-2003, 07:31 AM   #6
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Better than a lot that I've seen but I think that you're too spread out for good support for your units.
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Old 12-11-2003, 01:58 PM   #7
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Ay yo

looks ok to me
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Old 12-13-2003, 08:51 PM   #8
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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:
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        [  ][  ][  ][C ][  ][  ][  ]
    [  ][  ][  ][K ][  ][A ][  ][  ][  ]
[  ][  ][  ][  ][P ][  ][P ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
[  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][S ][  ][  ]
[  ][  ][  ][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.)
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how do you do that code thing? and does it make it easier to write out formations?
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Use the <code> tags.
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Old 12-13-2003, 11:04 PM   #11
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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.
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Old 12-14-2003, 12:35 AM   #12
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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
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Old 12-15-2003, 06:25 PM   #13
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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.


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Old 12-16-2003, 11:03 AM   #14
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I use this formation whenever i play grey on Banff or Legends, seems to work pretty well.

Code:
       [C ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
   [  ][P ][P ][W ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
[  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][S ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
[  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
[A ][K ][K ][K ][L ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
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Old 12-17-2003, 12:26 PM   #15
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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
Code:
     _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
   _|C|_|_|_|_|_|_|_
 _|_|P|P|W|_|_|_|_|_|_
|_|_|_|_|_|_|S|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|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.
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