How do i improve?

it takes me roughly 30-60 minutes to beat the computer on easy, is there any way i can improve against AMAI? here is a link to my replay.

http://www.freewebs.com/blazer78/BlackStar.w3g

Nice replay, =). I don't see any real way of you improving against AMAI, it could just depend on coincadental happenings. By the looks of it, I think that AMAI should improve! =)

i've seen all these 1337 tft players and they seem to be able to pwn computer easy in less than 10 minutes...

btw, is your avi from gaia?

hmm... wait a minute... isn't the computer supposed to use teleportation scrolls and retreat when their hero is like weak? hmm.. perhaps i installed AMAI incorrectly? i'm using the NYE simple edition of AMAI.

Your replay was against stock AI, not AMAI. AMAI will have named opponents and chat a lot.

Any way you can improve?

Stop playing on EASY o_O that only teaches bad habits. Easy AI basically camps at home waiting for you to show up, only tossing in a few token offensive attacks.

What I noticed from your replay:

1v1 on a big map. Why? Improve your game rapidly by playing on small ladder maps. Tighten up opening build orders, hero harass, creep and counter, mix it up early and often. Small maps lead to intensive training, large maps lead to bad habits and luxury tier 3 armies.

Always be on the move. Creep, harass, attack bases, expos, always be on the march. Far too much standing around. Remember to rally point production buildings to your heroes.

Spend your resources. You were sitting on 1000 gold at 4 minutes. Normally that would have lost the game for you. Also spend your mana. At many points your heroes were running around with full mana. Spend, spend, spend to win, win, win. For almost the entire game, the easy AI had a larger, albeit timid non-attacking, army.

No scouting. Bad. Although on a big map festered with mines, you can count on Tier 3 air coming at you. Which even easy AI promptly did. You didn't counter build against that. A few frosties added 30 minutes to the game because you only had a few rifles at each encounter. Breakers and knights are not a good counter against Tier 3 air. Always scout.

You bought upgrades before there were sufficient units to justify upgrades. Examples; two priests then master training? animal war training before the first
knight was out?


And you are supposed to as well! You lost your entire army twice, lost heroes constantly. Retreat your low HP units and heroes away from the battle. Retreat your entire army when the tides of war are against you. Use TP to save your army or at the very least your heroes. Never enter a full battle without a TP scroll. You neglected to buy a single healing potion the entire game. You must keep your heroes alive. Not so much because of the cost in gold, but the cost in time. A high level enemy hero will own your army and your base, unless your high level hero is around to stop him. Under normal conditions, an AI or human player could have stormed your base unopposed at several different points.

You built six towers in base. They never fired a shot. This due to easy AI being too timid to enter your base. But bear in mind that three frosties and two meat wagons would take down any amount of towers you cared to build. Towers have their place, this game was not one of them.


/end constructive criticism. On a positive note, you showed decent surround moves. If that was combined with a faster paced, more agressive game you'd be much farther along towards improving your game.


GL HF ^_^

thx for your comments =) i was wanting lotsa negative comments like that to help me...

i just have to figure out how to get amai installed... the simple version doesn't seem to be working... i might try standard edition.

It wasn't all that negative. Most games, for both bnet and amai play, run from 12 to 25 minutes. Shaving precious seconds off build orders, creeping and expanding will leave you much better prepared to win and better enjoy your games.

Please let us know if you still have difficulty installing AMAI.

i installed the player edition and it works now, i'll have a whack at easy again ;)