good guide! partners should help each other out more, teams would be alot more successful.

Great guide for people who are new.
( Thank god you made this hopfully noobs everywhere who play 3v3 quick setup will see this and make my time palying esier.)

Gp combos:
Forest Fire on a Gaia Forest

I never thought about that befor thanks for mentioning it. I know usualy me and my friend play Thor and Gaia. This is probably a pretty strong god power. Since people groupe there buildings together you should be able to take a few out fast.

Great Tips.

you didn't mention my fav double sandshift villie rush
or one shits workers in the other shifts em back

What about set and possy. Lure and animals, archers and cavalry, one of the best combos I think.

I read the guide, nothing I didnt know. Good for newbs tho.

erm, I often tell my partners I am busy. Often, helping your ally is not as good as hitting the enemies. I guess it is a judgement call. If in doubt though, I would say hit the enemy rather than help your ally.

Dumb question: When you chat in a team game, does everybody see the text or just your ally/team member. I get confused about this.

@ flank... ok true but i wouldnt expect your ally to be calling for help unless he is screwed majorly, plus if u hit the ennemy whats your gaurentee u can win u dont know what he has for sure, no matter how good his scouting is, by helping your ally u know what you up against and you know u can quickly overwhelm it w/ superieor numbers and counters

Fanatics and husks sound great except for cheiroballista.

Sum of ur GP combos arent GP combos.

A GP combo is a seris of GPs used consecuetively that directly benefit off each others effects.

Fwinter+Fwinter, Double Meteor/EQ/Twista/Lighnin/Implode , Bronze + Flamer's weapons, Double Rain AINT NO GP COMBO.

So there arent "endless possiblities".

I disagree.

Bronze + Flaming weapons:
Flaming weapons boosts the attack, while bronze keeps those with flaming weapons alive longer. This is a legitimate GP combo.

Double fimbulwinter is better than using each separately, it will kill alot more buildings because it doesn't give enemy time to recover. Ditto for the meteor, earthquake stuff. Don't take semantics so personally.

I think the possibilities ARE endless. Team games are great! Right now my friends and I are doing Gaia's Forest + Forest Fire + Shifting Sands villie rush. Pretty funny, but it works too well so we might have to switch to something more fair soon

Teamwork can make an amazing difference, and not just in the use of GPs. I think there should be more discussion of team strategies on this site! Do all of you really play 1v1 all day? *Blech*

[This message has been edited by bischoje (edited 02-20-2004 @ 00:06 AM).]

doesn't fwinter block all other gps
so it would be impossible to double with it
not sure but thats what i thought

It does yeah.
Mabey he means one straight after another.

Here is another combo i find works amazingly well.

underground or tartarous gate (if you have TT) + vision(you can use a pegasus instead if you wish)

or

eclipse + ansestors (it might sound wierd but it works!)

another good combo is use nihog then right after fimbul winter. Or frost then fimbul winter thats a good combo!

frost and greek warrior - what you two are talking about definitely are not GP combos.

Ragnarok + Flamming Weapon and fimbul winter !

Game over ! :-D

You're a dumb bunny. A really dumb bunny. If you were a president you'd be called Dumberham Licoln.

My personal favorite combo is when my opponent casts nidhogg, and I cast bolt

Double fimbulwinter would suck royally (shudder). I'd like to see more posts on team games. Most of what is posted talks as if its a 1v1 but the same strat wouldn't necessarily work as well in a 2v2, or at least it wouldn't work the same.

Speaking of team strats, I got doubled real good recently with a RA rhino villy rush supporting a Loki rush! I was waiting for the Loki rush -- I saw his buildings nearby -- but that was my first experience with the Rhino. I was like "what are these villies doing here?" Put together and they dropped my TC despite all I could do. My partner was nowhere near ready to help. His lone MU showed up too late and only served to disturb the looters.

there's one thing u could always do. Especially if ur ally being attacked is a good enuf classical age playa. let him hold off the attacks. send him little help. tribute as much as u can allow. and then counter/raid the stronger of the two opponents. that should make them think twice about doubling up on someone. also use the time u've gained by not being attacked to boom and outclass ur opponents. most of the time- if u boom n ur a boomer, and if ur ally gets taken down, u will be more than enuf to handle the two on one situation, provided u'v done ur raiding.

On the other hand, if ur the boomer, and u get attacked, get ur rush-capable ally to help just a lil bit and get him to boom enuff so he can make a good counter-offensive into their base. if ur dead, n ur the boomer, don't waste time. tribute those resources n hang around in the map. u might just be able to rise from the dead and launch a seige counter offensive when needed.

Agains't good players, ur normally hunted down till ur last villager. so it doesn't matter how long u can run. i've seen comics wall their last villager into a corner. just admit ur a noob, say gg n watch out the rest of the game. it doesn't hurt to admit u were outclassed at that point. just means u now know how NOT to go about things.

"Bronze the norse guy then have him cast FW for the ultimate army"

What will this do?

In spite of team play's popularity so little is written is on the topic. If I may suggest a few of additions to your already nice guide:

1. Voice command. Obviously being able to use hands-free voice commands is a tremendous advantage for teams. The small investment for a headset can really improve your team play.

2. Isis partners should try to build monuments for their partners, especially in critical areas. Your partners will love you for the GP prevention. Most early doubles will be concentrated on the non-Isis player so placing a monument there is really disconcerting for the opponents. Alternatively if your Isis partner is under early aggressive attack, help them! Sending over a priest to heal your ally (if they don't have that power) is also good ally etiquette.

3. Realize that team maps do not always resemble single player maps! This sounds obvious but for someone use to playing single games, the team maps can be a bit of a shock, not just size-wise, but lay-out too.

4. Depending on the circumstance, it's good to let your buddies know you are grabbing a particular asset- for example a TC, a herd of animals or a gold pile. Nothing worse than an Odin player great hunting a herd, and going to it later to find your ally ate the food without telling you. Be courteous and share whenever possible.

Oh and BTW CrAzYrOxx, if you are want to know how to code your articles, if you see another article with some effect you like, click on the little edit button in the post and the code will be revealed. Otherwise see this link:

http://www.heavengames.com/forumfaq.shtml#bbcode_quote

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Umm, neither of those GPs affect allied units... so yeah. I guess if you each had an army it would sorta help... Use the bronze units as a meatshield while you have a ton of FU TAs whacking them and some jarls.

[This message has been edited by ca_aok (edited 04-21-2004 @ 04:47 PM).]

Whyd you bring up an old old topic...