I just wanted to post this to show the effect a top10 player has on a game with average players and even lesser advanced players involved. This match just happened this week and I think we will see similar results from
PrettyWoman is a friend of mine I would classify as intermediate at best. She is not very aggressive and is not a good rusher. We did not know BowChicki and this is why people don't play with people they don't know, he either had a bad game or just wasn't very good.
Brain Slicer dropped upon launching, I was next to Brain shaker, Bow was in the pocket, and pretty was next to sheriff. Me and slicer traded lots of tool pleasentries with ships and this continued deep into bronze. Sheriff rushed Pretty and then Bow who then begged for resources and pretty and I acknowledged where we could. Pretty was able to run and rebuild but Bow never was able to get going. Now I understand the power of Sheriff, he could take out 2 players with one rush and even had enough to send some to me, disrupting stuff and I relocated slightly. B/C of my battle with brain, he knew that would be enough and didn't chase me down completely. He boomed in the time it took me to handle his cas.
My compies took out his Sheriff's CAs and my peons put me into enough wood that I won the naval battle with shaker. I tranied behind him during battle and wiped out all but a few peons by building behind him. He then ran into sheriffs base. Pretty was now rebuilt and I had ironed so I started to think we had a chance at this.
Sheriff had used the time I took to take out brain's base to go big time booming iron. He then began to methodically clear the board with hcats and has. I tried to help pretty and bow but pretty was wiped out going into sheriffs base and bow seemed to just ask for resources and never helped. Sheriff pretty much wiped out both Pretty and Bow now and then threw all his HA and hcat weight into me since he saw I was only real threat left. I did ok with it for awhile but wow, he just kept on coming.
In the end I just couldnt handle all that sheriff had, but I enjoyed learning from it. I would love it if I could play Staffa now since I know he is awesome also!
I have put together 7 screenshots showing how sheriff built his bases. All i can say is wow! I have the economy, military and timeline as well. Later I did notice that sheriff did have 2 tcs in his original location, that makes me think of not always building my new tcs in forward building locations. Good job to Sheriff and I hope to play more with him in the future.
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They take a little time to load but...you will want to see sheriffs configurations of seiges, towers, and tcs. I normally have a lot more peons, but when you fight nonstop from the 10th minute, it is hard to accumulate Thorfinn, I am sorry to snap on you but to come in here and criticize me as a rookie who "reads" strat posts is wrong. I tried to tell you to back off but you came on harder. If you put this energy into your gaming, you will be a great player in your own right someday. If you want to talk about the Palmy thing later we can, but some positions are not able to be walled especially when the opponent has already built behind you and you do not know it. If you have read my manifestos you would know I was an early waller and still use them when they will be effective. forever misunderstood and a little short recently... king_highlander