So I’ve posted lots of replays of my human versus orc on Terenas Stand, but I don’t think I’ve ever done an official walk through. So here it is! XD

This is from TFL qualifier versus qD. I play some 300 apm orc who is pretty decent (or so I’m told, don’t know him myself really).

Game one on Terenas Stand

Base build. So a lot of times with human it’s helpful to completely wall off your base. Some people like to keep an opening so they can run their Archmage in, but I’d rather run around the map if a hero is chasing me.

When you creep the lab, you want the wizard to cast lightning shield on your archmage. Use the lightning shield to finish creeping faster; speed matters. (I usually build my altar closer to where I plan on creeping when my hero comes out. Not always however, because being predictable might hurt. People expect humans to creep the lab on TS though.) Remember: if the wizard’s lightning shield kills the creep, you gain no experience points.

I didn’t creep it very well in this replay.. but it should do. :) Here’s how you creep it.

With the Archmage standing in front of the camp, place footmen/militia close to him and attack the Wizard creep with Archmage’s fireball of doom. The Wizard should cast lightning shield on your Archmage. Move your militia/footmen in a sort of circle around the two melee creeps in front to attack the wizard. The two creeps in front should attack your Archmage. Summon a Water Elemental.

In the replay, I could have had my Archmage a little further top so that I can run my militia & footmen around the bottom, OR I probably could have had my militia & footmen on the top side of my Archmage and run them above the two melee creeps. Both should work. Just practice and tweak until you can do it correctly. You want to call your militia just at the right time as well, neither too early nor too late. Too late is worse though, as it will take you longer to finish creeping.

I use my third footman to scout. Check out what the orc is doing, try to make him chase my scout footman, etc.

If my opponent doesn’t harass me early, I like to creep the mercenary camp. This is why creeping the lab quickly is important. Even if my opponent expects me to creep this mercenary camp, if he chooses to creep his lab before harassing I still have time to creep. If my opp. get’s to me before I’ve started creeping, I’ll just return my militia. It’s not good to force creep it. Later you can use two footmen, or militia to pull the creep out and hire the mercenary priest and berserker. I would only get the priest if my opponent went Far Seer. Priest is kind of free experience for Blademaster :)

Anyway, after you finish creeping the mercenary camp you still have to creep one more green for level three. If you creep the green next to the shop, you can get an item.

Buy dust if your opponent went Blademaster. Sometimes I get boots as well. I felt like I didn’t need it this game.

After you get level three you can hit the orc’s base. In this game I teched to tier two, but a lot of times I’ll opt to tower rush at tier one instead if I get level three with mercenaries.

Okay that’s all for now folks, hope you enjoy. Sorry for poor writing, etc. :)

So I searched on Westfall a bit before trying West.. before giving up to just search on Asia.

The game wasn’t as epic as I would’ve liked.. but it’s not terrible I hope. I wanted to go tier 3 for gryphons =[

Not as fast as I used to be, etc. etc. etc.

Anyway, enjoy? =]

Game one was on Terenas Stand. I scouted with a footman and found him creeping to level 2 with blademaster. I’m thinking, “great. I can creep the mercenary camp and a green for level 3 and tower rush with mercs.” So that’s what I did.

A couple things to watch for:

1) I used the wand of mana stealing on the green wizard creep. This is a great way to refill up on some of your Archmage’s mana after summoning water elementals to creep with. The wand of mana stealing item is otherwise not very good versus blademaster or other heroes anyway.

2) I sold my Town Portal for dust and boots.

Game two was on Lost Temple. This game the orc spawns next to my natural gold mine so I chose not to fast expand. Instead I teched to casters and Mountain King before putting up a tier 2 expo.

A few things to watch for:

1) At the very start, I sort of waited on the ramp next to my natural a little before going down to creep it. I was thinking that maybe his Blademaster would think I decided not to creep the gold mine creep camp and would go try to find me at the greens in the center instead. I had heard of some German human player doing this against FoCuS (I didn’t actually watch the game), but yeah, maybe it’s worth trying?

2) As usual, I close off my base at the beginning leaving no entrances for grunts or heroes.

3) You might notice I use my Mountain King’s storm bolt and thunder clap to creep a lot. I actually learned this from watching Storm vs ToD on Turtle Rock for WC3L finals ages ago. It is really worth using the mana to creep faster.

4) Notice my tier 2 creep pattern. I don’t creep all the camps that are next to each other.. but I go for the starting spawn location gold mines, the goblin shops and lab. These camps can drop very good items as well as tomes of experience. They are just much more worth your walking time and creeping time on Lost Temple.

2:3, close spawn:non close spawn

Start with standard build and Mountain King as hero. If not close spawn, expand and tower up and et cetera.

Close spawn? Cancel Mountain King before he finishes training and hire a Firelord to tower rush right away.

Feels nice to be a human player!

Better scout the right way though >.> or hope your opponent scouts the same direction you do.

Ladder game vs early, rank 2 orc. Nothing too special. Just standard play vs orc who creeps.

WCG game vs mini on TM. Pretty clean, I was worried when he got level 2 and I was in an awkward spot, but it was fine when he didn’t know where I was.

Here’s a supposedly funny game Caff vs Pesu. I haven’t watchd it yet, but it looks like he did some shredder stuff on TS in mirror.

Expect a post on elf soon!