laudablepuss wrote:

FABIO wrote:

Enemy cavalry? You HAVE to build pikemen. Archers? You HAVE to build cavalry.

You do, huh? What game are you talking about here? You can even fight your way the wrong way around the circle if you can come up with the sheer numbers required. Or if, in the case of EEII, you have some special power that you can use to even the odds a bit. (In EEII, that'd be military crowns.)

But here's the thing: only an idiot would deliberately try to use guys with swords vs cavalry. Or pikemen vs archers. That needs to be reflected in the game. Instead of having to make archers aim, just give them a bonus when shooting at tight, slow-moving formations. Instead of forcing the player to line up his cav and send them charging, just have cavalry get a bonus against units that can't withstand that sort of attack anyway. What's the problem? It's not inaccurate per se.

In starcraft, if someone jumps me with battlecruisers I can try using goliaths, catching him with cloaked wraits, using ghosts to lock them down, have a defiler cast plague on them, have ground units hide under a dark swarm, have an arbiter cast stasis on them to divide and conquer, have a templar cast psi storm, have a dark archon cast feedback or mind control, use mutalisks & devourers, use scouts or corsairs, use dragoons, use scourages, or use a couple other available tactics that I'm probably forgetting. The AoE makers would probably force me to use the ONE anti-battlecruiser unit, only they'd call it the Light AstroAngessonator just to make sure it's 100% unintuitive.

According to SB's crazy desperate defense of his l337 skillz though, that WAS starcraft.

I have to admit here that when I only played Starcraft a handful of times way back a long time ago. I should probably pick it up again. So while this example sounds good to me and it appears that SB is retarded (a conclusion I'm predisposed toward anyway, so that any argument that makes this claim gets an RPS-style 1.5 damage multiplier), I really can't comment on the specifics.