Quote (dude150 @ Sat, 6 Jun 2009, 19:12)
if you're 1v1ing on echo isles, mass ghouls + tinker with clockwerk factory is a free win
absolutly not ...
Quote (DeathDeception @ Sat, 6 Jun 2009, 19:38)
ted style fiend?
TeD is a korean undead player. He recently re-popularised the combo of DeathKnight + Naga + Lich (in that order) with the unit combo Fiends + Ghouls + 1-2 frost wyrms.
You basically focus your fiends + a lich with an orb of corruption on the dryads, your ghouls on archers and the wyrms on bears.
With 3 strong nukes (death coil, lightning and nova) + the slowing power of frost arrows and wyrms breath, you can very easily focus down heros, especially with the armor reduction of the orb.
Ghouls get insane movement speed with frenzy and DKs aura, so you are very mobile and can sourround quite well (which is a technique you should either be able to do, or learn asap).
The problem for new players is that it is fairly micro dependant with different types of units, both melee and ranged, very fragile units (ghouls in general and fiends vs bears) and a tri hero combo. You should always have healing scrolls on you to counter Area of effect spells and keep your ghouls alive.
Also you cant really afford losing units earlygame, as you need atleast an equal army. But if you handle your 50 supply army well, you can keep pressure on an elf player on 60 or 70 supply, which allows you to bank up to 1000 or 2000 gold and then quickly pump out 2-3 wyrms and a good army of fiends.