07-14-2004, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2004, 02:29 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Ah, but your TC reviving in the middle of an enemy army can still do a LOT of damage. Sure, there are times when you wish that it would not get used, but it only increases the time it takes to revive him by a few seconds - in the meantime, War Stomp, and Shockwave can decimate armies. High level TCs and MKs win games. It's simple as that.
The problem with your concept of massing weak units, is that, simply put, third tier melee is more cost efficient then first tier melee. 4 tauren will pound 6 grunts into the dust, yet they cost less gold. (265 * 4 = 1060), (200 * 6 = 1200). The situation is even worse with humans, because footmen aren't even on par with other Tier 1 melee. If you are going melee with human, and it's late game, you must have knights. Unless you want to be torn to shreds by AOE, pulverise, and the highly-cost-efficient third tier melee. Undead can redeem the case with skeletons, making ghouls viable later in the game, although completely useless against air - in which case you would need gargoyles. For Night elves, you need hippogryph riders if you are serious with getting archers as your late-game strategy - they go down against third tier melee faster then a zergling against a bunker full of firebats.
I do not go for super-unit flyers. The only fliers that I ever get are:
Hippogryph riders, if I am massing archers.
Gargoyles, if I'm going ghoul/garg, because ghouls cannot attack air.
Wind Riders as Orc, if I need to win the game before Tier 3, and I am not massing grunts.
A few Dragonhawks as human, for stopping air hit and run harassment, if the game comes to it.
I dislike Gryphon riders/Chimera/Frost Wyrms because of both their high cost, and their extreme vulnerability to ranged units - but I will build the respective anti-air units for each race, if I am going tier 3 melee.
The problem with your concept of massing weak units, is that, simply put, third tier melee is more cost efficient then first tier melee. 4 tauren will pound 6 grunts into the dust, yet they cost less gold. (265 * 4 = 1060), (200 * 6 = 1200). The situation is even worse with humans, because footmen aren't even on par with other Tier 1 melee. If you are going melee with human, and it's late game, you must have knights. Unless you want to be torn to shreds by AOE, pulverise, and the highly-cost-efficient third tier melee. Undead can redeem the case with skeletons, making ghouls viable later in the game, although completely useless against air - in which case you would need gargoyles. For Night elves, you need hippogryph riders if you are serious with getting archers as your late-game strategy - they go down against third tier melee faster then a zergling against a bunker full of firebats.
I do not go for super-unit flyers. The only fliers that I ever get are:
Hippogryph riders, if I am massing archers.
Gargoyles, if I'm going ghoul/garg, because ghouls cannot attack air.
Wind Riders as Orc, if I need to win the game before Tier 3, and I am not massing grunts.
A few Dragonhawks as human, for stopping air hit and run harassment, if the game comes to it.
I dislike Gryphon riders/Chimera/Frost Wyrms because of both their high cost, and their extreme vulnerability to ranged units - but I will build the respective anti-air units for each race, if I am going tier 3 melee.