Fox Plays: Warcraft 2 Beyond the Dark Portal Human Campaign Episode 3~I Love WC2 AI

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[@redwings13400]

Nice job figuring out this level. Honestly I think it’s one of the most difficult levels in this entire campaign. Your starting gold mine is just so tiny, orange gets so insane if you don’t deal with them quickly, and resources are at a premium here. If you find yourself in a situation without a ton of resources, mages with blizzard are actually a pretty good way to get a lot of value from a few units. They’re tough to use but extremely strong, good at destroying towers and dealing massive damage to charging enemies, so you can get really efficient if you use them well.
Red does eventually attack regardless of whether you build a shipyard, but sometimes their ai can get confused when you take out orange quickly. I’m pretty sure that transport in the back of their base was trying to attack your town hall in oranges base, and just couldn’t pathfind around the islands, so it got stuck. That happened to me a couple times too in my challenge runs lol.
As for other useful things you could do, holy vision is actually a good spell that I haven’t seen you use. It reveals a ton of the map, so even if you don’t feel like sacrificing a couple flying machines, you can reveal the entire map with a couple of paladins as soon as you get them for free pretty much, which just generally helps. Learning the levels really is everything here, once you know what’s coming they get easier.

[@LaBarBQ]

There are a lot of mage spells that I hesitate to use because I can usually barely handle telling troops to basic attack lol. I do need to use blizzard though.
Holy vision is a good idea. I'm usually a little panicked by the time I'm making paladins and forget they have anything other than heal lol.
Also that poor ship. The pathfinding just amazes me because one second a dragon is bypassing all defenses to hit my base and the next a ship is, well, doing whatever that was lol

[@redwings13400]

@@LaBarBQ mages have a lot of spells, but not all of the spells are equally useful :D. Blizzard is the best spell, it’s just a ton of damage on ridiculous range in a giant area for a long time, it’s basically just a better ballista once you have tech. The ai doesn’t play around it either, they’ll just suicide charge everything at your mage through your blizzard and take even more damage because of it. Polymorph is also just hilarious fun, you don’t need it to defeat dragons, but it’s always fun zapping them in to sheep. The other spells are pretty meh in comparison (or at least much harder to use effectively) and I pretty much never use them, but blizzard by itself makes mages op.
I honestly don’t know if this game even has dragon pathing on some of the levels. Like, sometimes the dragons move via logic and will attack certain areas, but in other levels I’m convinced it’s completely random. Don’t cite this as a fact, I don’t know for sure if that’s true, but that’s certainly what it feels like, with dragons just popping up in the most random places lol.

[@LaBarBQ]

I wouldn't be surprised if none of the movement is coded properly. Troops are whacky, ships are whacky. But noted on the mage stuff, I need to play with it a little. Should make things interesting.@@redwings13400