Lately I don’t really know what I’m doing against elf, and I’m kind of back in the ‘test and tweak’ process.

First game: 4tw.slayer(i think)

This game was played after the next one, but I want to talk about it first since it’s closer to what I used to do a long time ago. It’s similar to the old level 3 AM Sky push, but some minor creep pattern differences, and I got an arcane tower. Right at the start, something I will do differently next time is not build the arcane tower until after you tier so my naga is not so late, and also build it a little farther back so he can’t just shoot it down from outside. Its main purpose is to help with the skelly harass.

I kind of thought I would beat him really easily so having such a difficult time really bugs me. Rifle push vs elf never was easy, and it is definitely NOT getting easier. From now on I’m just going to dual sanctum + mortar if I decide to not expand, and come what may. Rifles just do not push bases very well.

There’s some mistakes I saw. Probably won’t play human much longer anyway.

Game vs 21 aka g3.revelations

If you’ve known me awhile, you should know that I’ve never been fond of fast expanding unless it’s necessary. But lately, it’s becomes necessary, so been using it even though I’m not very familiar with it. Really in this game I just want to talk about 1 or 2 mistakes. First when expanding, you should not leave your home peasants open the way I did. Next time, I would build an arcane tower the way I explained in 1, and perhaps completely wall the base so there is no entrance - then DR and archers cannot walk in. Also, with a delayed tech, I think you should just try to tank. The critical mistake was really losing so many peasants at the start.

So as you can see, arcane tower placement should be such that it is difficult for opponents to take down, and where it can protect your workers. Since I mine from the lower trees, I would place my tower accordingly.=) Hope that gives you something to think about and try. Let me know if it helped at all! or didn’t help! The way I see it, you can get strats from replays of pros who are much better than I am; but you may not always pick up subtleties, and they definitely aren’t the only ones who have tricks. :O there’s my justification for pretending to write about strategy but really not, haha.