How to Use This Strategy Guide and Other Questions

Here I will explain the various notations I use to make these strategy pages easy to use, and answer a few frequently asked questions. If you are a veteran War2 player, just read the page instructions. If you are a beginner, you need to read the rest of the page.

Send everything right now! No? Ah, screw it, I'm surrendering.

--Shredder, Troll Axethrower of the Black Tooth Grin Clan

A Few Words About the Headers

I denote my strategies with specific headers to make it easier for you to read only what you need. If you are a really good player already, then you probably already know all of the fundamental and most of the veteran strategies. So feel free to skip right on to the "secret" strategies on these pages if that's the case. Although you probably want to go through the veteran strategies at your leisure just in case you are missing some of the knowledge.

Knowing the Headers:

denotes a fundamental strategy. You must know it to stand a chance against decent players. Learn this or lose to newbies. You definitely have to learn everything thus denoted by heart to stand a chance.
denotes a veteran strategy. This strategy separates the good players from the decent players. Learn this or lose to veterans. When you have mastered these strategies, you will have a chance against most players.
denotes a master strategy. This strategy is not widely known, even by the War2 veterans. It is a "secret" strategy. These strategies will give you the subtle edge you need to win more consistently against veterans.

A Few Words About Beginners

If you are a newbie, the best thing you can do is to follow the Beginner's Primer and then get some playing experience. Going through and reading all the strategies is too overwhelming. You won't remember to use most of the strategies during an actual game; and what you don't use won't help you. Take it slowly. After the War2 fundamentals have become second-nature, incorporate new strategies into your game while you play. Actually putting a strategy to use is the best way to remember it.

The Beginner's Primer:

Read the section on common mistakes.
Go to Shlonglor's Warcraft II Page and read the unit description section.
Go through my pages and read the rest on fundamental strategies.
Read the section on building orders.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Steve, what's the lumber bug?
Q: Steve, how do you build so quickly?
Q: Steve, why do you make me kill people?
Q: Steve, is it true that you can build ballerinas from chewing gum, rubber bands, and duct tape?
Q: Steve, when he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and her, with him to the station?

Frequently Questioned Answers:

A: I built more Peons.
A: I upgraded later.
A: I built eleven Peons, three Grunts, moved the stupid Grunts between your Town Hall and your Gold Mine, and that's all I did. Now stop bothering me! Go read a strategy page or something!
A: I drank Gatorade.
A: God made me do it.

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