As FML goes on, I was thinking of organizing a small side-tournament for everyone who wishes to participate, with a set date and time, and a small monetary prize in the end.
However, it doesn't really make much sense in making it sort of like FML's round where everyone plays their usual thing and we get the typical games.
I want something cool/new/interesting, maybe map-wise, maybe rule-wise.
Additional sponsors welcome! The better we can fund this, the more exciting.
If you are interested, feel free to indicate so in this thread or on garena. If nobody's interested, obviously I'm not going to bother.
Now, I need ideas...
Here are a few of mine:
1. FFA with unit limit of 1 per player. So you cannot build more than 1 garg, 1 wyrm, 1 destro, for example. You can also not have any more than 1 building of any type except farms/burrows/zigs/moonwell, and not more than 1 hero. Sounds silly, but I feel like this could get some fun games.
of course enforcing this would be a pain, and of course a game is scrapped if someone cheats (even accidentally). Is there any way to enforce such limit via a custom map by any chance?
2. Everyone plays with a handicap of 50%. Things go down like WHOA.
3. Everyone has to get a Tinker!!!
4. Old school maps. Crucible, Feralas, Savage Storm, Rock Quarry, That underground map, Stormguarde, etc!
===Eshan of course. Magadansky's reputation precedes himself, while Eshan manages to keep low profile despite being such a happy person!!! Woohoo! Steppin and Darker, you guys are AWESOME (yay!), but unfortunately you have almost no chance against both Eshan and Maga in the SAME game! WOOT!
M2 Daselend Renaud UnholyDreadlorD QHKane
===Easy win for Dase. Renaud and Hydro will suicide each other like all FML mods do every time they get into a game together. QHKane is of course playing the underpowered race, and has almost no chance against the ORC GOD OF ORCS... Yes... (happy feelings, happy feelings)
M3 Humans7ar Ugrilainen Walking.TRL PinballMap ===Oooh, this one is tough! I'd say almost every player has about same chance to win here, but Walking has a bit of an edge due to being overall the most skillful player of awesomeness. HumanStar, the last season's finalist seems like an obvious candidate, but unfortunately for HIM, he now has lost his underdog reputation and will be soon facing the Quebec + France alliance. He will be WALKING (get it? get it?) out of the game pretty shortly, I think.
M4 Brainman Kajetan Q-veta Persuade ===Oh, yay!!! I hope Persduade draws HU here, and we have FOUR Humans in the same game. This makes it very fair, of course, as HU is the weakest, least represented FFA race, and would otherwise lose to other races, which is NOT GOOD (No, not at all!!!). With that in mind, after 4.5 hours and every corner of the map being covered in towers, Q-veta will prevail, obviously. NICE!
M5 dkh.Rain W8man Paterique L77 ===Happy feeling, happy feelings, what do we have here? L77, my dear friend, do you remember that Savage Storm game from about 8 years ago against me and X-Hunters? Of course you don't. That's why you are going to lose here. The stars have aligned for Paterique to win!! YAY!!!!!! Grats Pat!
M6 DarknessCallsMe Slythe Kruppe Dkh.Starshaped ===An easy win for Darkness, DUH! Starshaped will rush out Slythe while Darkness will surprise everyone by not doing his usual hero combo and picking Dark Ranger Shadow Hunter Tauren Chieftain instead. Nobody is going to be expecting it, and with the element of surprise on his side, the kittun master shall prevail... RAWR!!!! (woot)
M7 KING.WRECKTIFY PLZLEAVEDUCK Killyoself rygorych ===My clairvoyant mind tells me very clearly as to how the events will unfold here. Rygo will, of course tower up and go to 80 early to sit around and snipe trees. Offended by such callous disregard for nature, Killyoself will mysteriously forget the #1 rule of FFA, attempt to "tome" rygo, falling into a stalemate which will last generations. In the mean time. KING.WRECKTIFY will be swiftly defeated by Duck, at which point Duck will come to Rygo's rescue, quickly kill off both Rygo and Killyoself, and then sit in his chair, file his nails to perfection and observe his reflection in the screen of his monitor, quietly contemplating the meaning of life.
Happy feelings.
M8 y.zenchenko Rebuke[Skynet] JoHnY-BoY Red7z7 ===Yet again, here we will observe the alliance of the Francois Bloc, represented by the weakest FFA race, the Humans. Aided by Carla Bruni and zench's terrible ping and Red's decision to avoid attacking Rebuke, Johny will complete the circle by introducing a new human technique, called "Griffons, Priests and Tanks", combining a unique blend of previous underused units with a very rarely encountered hero combo of Archmage, Mountain King and Paladin. He will further shock the world by employing the Staffs of Sanctuary, truly revolutionizing the Human play.
...for asking me to reveal my smurf. If I didn't, I wouldn't be spamming these forums + ffareplays with self-contradicting trash/trolling or annoying people to the point they are 99% to suicide me in an fml game.
OK, here's the new deal then.
I will be nice to everyone from now on, still suck at this game, but can you guys be nice to me too? Pretend I never talked shit before.
Or do the Q rounds count in as well, e.g. there will not be a normal deathrose (yay) or silverpine (nay) round? Semis and finals of course get chosen by players.
Everyone knows how much I hate HU. While not so OP on the single battle level as orc, but just plain ANNOYING with their effing towers, mk/pal, tanks, gyros, griffons, slow, 3 food mortar, hawks, breakers and inner fire... and 4000 hp castles. Should all die in a fire.
So, HU is #1 race at winning FML... how do we beat these cheesers?
Top offenders: w8man, rebuke, humanstar, pateriqe, mrsparkle, wrecktify, johny boy.
Even more popular than orc and about 10 times more annoying. Specific strats vs specific players are greatly appreciated.
My personal strat is a bit cowardly. In the mid game, ward up/patrol all the gold mines the hu might take soon, and as soon as his peons show up to tower up, let them and kill it all, making him waste the gold. Do this regularly. When he shows up for payback, run off and hide behind towers. If he camps his new expo, try and manip others into hitting his base (shouldnt be hard, humans are fucking op). Someone hits main - he tps - you kill expo. Repeat this until hu starts crying and manip others against you. Counter manip by stating that hu is op as shit and won like 11 FMLs.
If Hu makes you the target, hug towers, dont meet the motherfucker in the open. Hu got plenty siege abilities, so make sure you have a shitton of towers. They might get overconfident with tanks/hawks. Cc hawks (silence, hex, or plain snipe with ud 3 nuke) and make him back off. Cry for help in chat. If you have a TC, respec that shit to lvl 3 shockwave imo, good vs tank harass. I mean, face it, you're not hexastomping shit against hu cheap shit divine shield/heal/staffs.
I thought I'll put all of top orc abusers into a single post to make this easier.
OK so we know that while orc is not the top race to win any given FFA, it is quite cheesy/op in terms of single battles. Often times orcs are rushed out/teamed against for this particular reason. The race op synergies + brutal micro of the top players = pretty much nobody stands a chance in an even battle.
So, here are the 2 scenarios.
1. You are in the top right corner position near Darkness on Market Square. He is sandwiched with 2 other players beneath him. You don't need to scout to know that he will go DR+hh, grab a quick expo and then mass his usual cheese. You don't need to scout to know that YOU are darkness's #1 target to break out of sandwich. You use whatever race you use. What do you do?
2. You are sandwiched on Twilight. DasElend lucked into the best position across the map from you, all alone. His typical play is fast wyverns, creep as much as possible, gear up his BM and then dominate vs anyone. You use whatever race you use. What do you do?
Me: 1. Any race -creep as much as possible, mass towers and fast 100. Camp base or expos - wherever he goes. Yell at other players to hit him before he gets lvl 7 DR from toming me. Pray. Seriously, I don't want to spawn near a sandwiched Darkness. I will go into a zakazulu mode and just scream at everyone until they hit darkness or kill me so I finally shut up.
2. Try and manip others into realizing that Das is all alone and hoarding 40k If they don't, screw it, throw everything at him. If they hit me or each other in the mean time, they are too dumb to win anyways. 3v1 rice style and not let him rebuild, ever. Top player in lucky position = auto team imo. Try not to get lucky next time.
So, TLDR, the strat is this: 1. camp to avoid feeding them high heroes. 2. never fight them in a fair battle because you just cant beat something so imba 3. hardcore team 4. if they cry about being teamed, point them to numerous replays where they've won vs team, so they should probably stfu 5. if it comes to the point where the orcs are fed+mass gold, go into zaka zulu mode and all out harassment rage and pray that the remaining players have half a brain to do the same
Anyone got good replays to watch involving top orcs? Especially where they get actually beaten?
Seeing how the league is pretty intimate, I was thinking, would it be difficult to open up a new forum with a thread per league player where anyone can contribute to the following:
-their experience against that player -how to deal with this player -what to watch out for -specialty tricks the player uses -links to good games that display the player's prowess
I thought this would be a cool way to start off the playoffs, since there is a full week or so before the qualifier round 1/2 end and everyone is bored.
Here's an example I can do for Marn:
He plays UD only... same combo every game, dk/dl/lich. He will typically mass garg from the start and maybe add a few frosties later on. I've never seen him do an early rush. He will sit back and hoard. Don't trust him when he says he has no gold... he always has gold. He always types in caps. If you type back in caps he gets furious and often suicides. Also he is in jail now.
Don't need to write essays... pitch in a few lines if you can.
Not sure if anyone else thinks that'd be entertaining. My thinking is that if everyone knows everything about everyone, there will be more experimentation going on, so people get a little less predictable (I know I will try to be).
Anyone found a way to customize them? Watching some of the top players abuse staffs: are you guys seriously that fast in using them without some sort of special hotkey?
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