undead vs night elves

V E R S U S N I G H T E L V E S

These are strategies that are particularly effective against Night Elves.

~~~BASIC TIPS~~~

-If your opponent is getting lots of spellcasters, get Destroyers.

-Keep a Shade with you so you don't run into a group of Shadow-melding Elves.

-The Night Elf heroes are all fairly weak (HP wise), so nukes deal lots of nice

damage. Fry them!

-Mountain Giants are annoying, but by swarming them and focus-firing you can

kill them relatively easily.

-When attacking there base use Meat Wagons to take out all the Moon Wells. If

you don't, the enemy will just keep healing.

-If you're fighting a Warden, keep your Necros' Raise Dead on Auto-Cast. The more corpses you raise, the less there will be for the Avatar of Vengeance! If you really want to annoy your opponent have your Death Knight use Animate Dead when the Avatar is summoned.

-When attacking the NE base, bring along a Meat Wagon or two to focus on wrecking Moon Wells. Otherwise, the NE units will just keep healing.

-Use ranged units to attack buildings while the melee units fight the enemy.

Those fighting trees will take damage.

-Obsidian Statues get killed by those annoying Faerie Dragons. The Faeries will burn the Statues EVERY TIME THEY HEAL. So have Gargs or Fiends pound the Faeries early.

-Be prepared to deal with the Beastmaster when facing the Night Elves. He's tough, so try to fast expand and out creep him if you can. Remember that when you fight, try to get the Huntresses and Archers out of the way , followed by the Beastmaster. Don't waste time trying to kill the summons, they're main purpose is to be meat, so don't let them.

~~~MY FULL STRATEGY~~~

For Night Elves you probably want to go with Crypt Fiends, and either Death Knight or Crypt Lord as your hero. Fiends do extra damage to unarmored Huntresses early game, so they're nice, and a Crypt Lord can be good for Impale (Night Elves tend to have lots of Hunts or Archers lined up or in packs). Death Knight can be good as Coil is good for healing Fiends (Just make sure to dance the DK, as the Night Elves will probably focus-fire on him), and Unholy Aura can speed up Fiends for chasing the Elves if they try to do some hit and runs. If you know that your brother likes to harass early on, consider building a Nerubian Tower by your mine, and build a Tomb of Relics early. If the Elves harass with Warden (Or Priestess, though she can't harass very well) and tries to Shadowmeld, just buy a Dust of appearance and try to kill her.

Try and rush the Elves early, but if you can see that you're not going to make it, back off or you'll allow your enemy to counter for the win. Creep-jack him if you can, or at least draw him out of his base, as Moonwells can be a pain. You don't have to win with the rush, just try and delay his economy. You want to avoid letting him tech to Mountain Giants, as they can be a pain. Once you hit tier 2, build a pair of Obsidian Statues, and get a second hero. If your first hero was a Crypt Lord, Death Knight is a good choice for Coil support. If you got Death Knight first, either get a Crypt Lord or a Lich. If your enemy is still using Archers, you can choose to get a Dreadlord, and tech to tier 3 for Abominations to rip through the Archers.

Now you really have to alter your strategy depending on what your enemy is doing. You're probably going to want to reach tier 3 fast, but decide what to get. If the enemy is going casters, you'll plan on getting Destroyers (Faerie Fire can be a pain, and it's always nice to Devour any Rejuvenation or Roars.),

if he sticks with Huntresses or Archers, get Abominations and a Dreadlord for Vamp Aura, if he has any Faerie Dragons, get some Gargs to rip through and stop

them from Mana Flaring whenever your Obsidians heal, and if he gets Mountain Giants, either try to ignore them and focus on the powerful but frail archers, or use Aboms to try and kill them. If he ends up with Chimeras, either Web them, or just use Gargs. Once at tier 3, either get a Dreadlord or Lich, depending on what he's been doing. And no matter what he does, remember that the Night Elf heroes are all fairly frail (Even their "tank", the Demon Hunter", can't stand up to as much as other tanks), so the infamous tri-nuke (Death Coil + Impale +Frost Nova), or any type of nuke, will waste them quickly. If he decides to use the neutral Beastmaster, either nuke him to death, or ignore him and go straight for the frail archers, dryads, or huntresses in back. If he summons, either use Devour Magic (If you have Destros), or just ignore them all together.