So What I plan to achieve with this series of articles is to cover topics about the Chaotic battlefield from specifics like today's topic, Tactical positioning, to much more vague things like plain ol' movement. The idea is give players, new and old, more things to think bout when playing.
So tactical positioning (I'm going to shoten it to TPing, for now xD) is basically my strongest virtue when playing chaotic. Basiclly the idea behind TPing is to line up your creatures to force you opponent to move somewhere they don't want to, or to attack with a creature they'd rather not attack with. It is also used defensively. A huge example is warbeasts an conjourors. You have be able to move your warbeasts so they can defend your conjourors AND attack your opponents at the same time. This is a bit of a challenge, but trust me after losing a dozen or so matches in a row, you begin to learn tricks that help not only with a Wabeast deck, but every other deck too. If you have ever played against one of my warbeast decks, you may notice how I move all of my creatures nearly every single turn. This is because I am trying to keep my Conjourors (or Mugicians in some cases) Whilst keeping the pressure on you to defend your own
So lets put a scenario up (This is something that I may do with each article as well)
Keep this map, per-say, in mind
__A__
_B_C_
D_E_F
1_2_3
_4_5_
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You are playing a powerful Warbest army and your just won the first battle descisively, defending your spot as it was their turn. The creature in one of the D,E or F spots is coded. So now it is your turn and you move one of the Warbeasts in Spot 1,2 or 3 to attack one of the two creatures left in your opponents front row, you win leaving one more of their front row creatures left. Now you have a choice you can take another warbeast from your front row and and put on the pressure by having 2 warbeast on the offense and 1 on the defense, or you can leave it as is with 2 defending and 1 attacking. Which do you think is smarter? Answer in the comments below please.
So I hope you enjoyed this article and I plan to cover many topics about playing Chaotic with new and different ideas. If you have any suggestions on topics you want me to cover, once again leave a comment below.
-Kerb.
Interesting article, though in you situation it really depends which creatures have been destroyed from D, E and F. Basically, I'll keep as many defenders on my front row as is necessary to protect my backline. If one is enough, I'll send two attackers up. If I need two, then one attacker will be up front. It also depends what is more vital at the time. If you have a Muge with no more MCs and can no longer be of use, you may want to use that creature as bait, as well as a means for your opponent to deter his focus to something unimportant.
ReplyDeleteYou have some good points, it all really dependes on the position of your creatures and theirs, but generally you will want to have more defenders, unless like you said, the situation is controllable with only one defender.
ReplyDeleteDo you mind revealing your username, or do you prefer being anonymous?
~Kerb
I think I'll stay anonymous for now. :)
ReplyDeletekewl can't wait to read about it! It'll probably improve my decks xD
ReplyDeletehave 2 war beasts left in in spots 1,2, or 3 and one on the offense in any of the d,e, or f spots 1 creature cant defend 3 spots
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you posting again! This brings back memories of your legendary TPing. When I was just a newb you totally told me how to do it. I still use those lessons in like, every match, especially when using my mirage cards.
ReplyDeleteTPing IS important XD. Nice to be back. I went offline for about 2 months causa' summer, and its nice to be back with a brilliant new topic like this one! And i dont know if u know this but im a warbeast lovin psychopath(lol a bit over the top but...), so mentioning them in the topic filled me with joy :P.
ReplyDeleteNice to see u back kerb!!!!
Love the post
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