Basic&advance Strategy FAQ on Orcs

Basic&advance Strategy FAQ on Orcs

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Basics
http://www.battle.net/war3/images/orc/screens/test-thumb.gif Research Spiked Barricades
Only the Orcs have the option to upgrade their buildings so they damage
melee units that attack them. Take full advantage of this by
researching the Spiked Barricades at the War Mill. This can help you
defend buildings that are attacked and can bring the enemy unit's
health down and sometimes kill off several units before the enemy
figures it out. If the enemy is using a lot of ranged units do not
bother researching these upgrades. However, if they are focused
entirely on melee units and are attacking buildings, research it. Watch
Towers vs Orc Burrows
Orc Burrows alone aren't always the best for defense. Typically new
players build a lot of Orc Burrows and no Watch Towers because they do
not understand their strengths and weaknesses. Orc Burrows are
primarily used for defeating early attacks and for adding defense to
other defensive troops and Watch Towers. Orc Burrows have 5 armor
compared to Watch Towers (which have 3 armor). Burrows also have heavy
armor instead of building (fortified) armor which makes them very weak.
Orc Burrows also need to be manned by Peons while Watch Towers do not.
Typically players build way more Orc Burrows than they have Peons to
man them. Instead combine Orc Burrows with about 2 Watch Towers. Build
buildings around the Watch Towers or place them next to trees to make
them more difficult to reach. Defending Expansions
Typically most players have no defenses for their expansion and simply
Teleport there or walk. You can also build one Orc Burrow and several
Watch Towers to defend an expansion. If you have more than 5 Peons at
your expansion build additional Orc Burrows. Use Orc Burrows to
Supplement Town Defenses
Fill each Orc Burrow with 4 Peons. Leave the Orc Burrows empty until
they are needed, then grab the Peons on Gold or Lumber to enter the
Burrows when they are attacked. Use Peons to repair the Orc Burrows
while they are being attacked. Remember to hit R or click on the repair
button rather than trying to right click on the Burrow which will
instruct the Peon to enter the Burrow if there is room. Build
additional Peons to help repair or man the Orc Burrows. Adding units
increases the fire rate of the Orc Burrows as the units inside throw
more spears. Build Orc Burrows for defense around the Peons mining
Gold. You can place lines of Orc Burrows on either side of the Peon
line. If they are attacked, place 4 Peons inside and surround them with
Peons using repair. Play the pop in pop out game. Have a Peon on the
outside repairing the Orc Burrow while it is being attacked. If the
enemy focuses on the Peon, have it get inside the Orc Burrow. When the
enemy focuses again back on the Orc Burrow, pop a Peon(s) out and
repair again. Make sure you get Spiked Barricades and Reinforced
Defense to make them stronger. Orc Burrows have a normal cooldown of 2
seconds and 0.8 seconds with 4 Peons inside. Place the Burrows in such
a way that their field of fire can cover your town. Also make sure to
put them near the Peons on Gold and Lumber so that they don't have far
to walk to get into the Burrows. Battle Stations
Pressing the Battle Stations button on a specific Burrow only calls
Peons to man that specific Burrow. If you want to fill all of your
Burrows group select the Burrows (you can double click on one of them)
and press the Battle Stations button. This will fill up all of the
Burrows if there are enough Peons. You can do the same to return all of
them back to work. Town Building
Proper Town Building is very important for Orc players. Burrows need to
be placed such that they are easy for the Peons to get to for repairing
and for battle stations. The Burrows also need to be able to defend the
Orc buildings.

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This Orc Town is nicely built. The Peons can easily reach the Burrows.

Item Usage
Two Items Orc players should regularly use are the Speed Scroll and
Healing Salves. Salves should be purchased to use on Grunts (or other
valuable units) after battle. Later on you can use the Shadow Hunter's
Healing ability combined with Salves. Allied units also might want to
buy Salves for their own units at your store. Speed Scrolls should be
purchased to use for escaping battles or during battles so that Grunts
or allied units can more quickly reach their targets. Spells and
Abilities <blockquote>Use Sentry Wards
Sentry Wards last 10 minutes! The Witch Doctor comes with this spell
initially, so build one and place Sentry Wards around key locations
such as Fountains, enemy towns, enemy mines, key traveling points on
the map, and your town, in order to spot invisible units. If you're
having trouble with Night Elves using Shadowmeld or Blademasters using
Wind Walk, the Sentry Ward is the perfect solution. Use Purge
Make sure you get Shamans with Purge to slow down enemy units and Heroes especially. Get Bloodlust!
Build Shamans and research their adept and master training so that you
can get Bloodlust. Turn it on and bring several Shamans along with your
army. Get Pillage!
Pillage is an excellent way to generate resources while attacking or
eliminating enemy towns. Make sure you always research it when using
Grunts or Raiders to attack enemy buildings.
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Advanced
Offensive Towering
The Orcs can create some really annoying offensive tower setups. This
is especially the case when they get Spiked Barricades and Reinforced
Defense. What you need to do this is some Grunts, Demolishers, Heroes
(obviously) and a pack of Peons to build and repair.

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When you see a group of Peons like this, they are up to no good. It's likely they will offensive tower.	Yes they set up towers outside an Undead base. The towers are backed by Demolishers (Gruntapults), Grunts, and two Heroes.

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Combos
Bring a Kodo Beast
Kodo Beasts have an aura that enhances the surrounding Orc units'
damage. Build them and bring them along. They can also Devour enemy
units. Make sure you also research War Drums to further enhance the War
Drums Aura. Get Tauren with Pulverize
Tauren are very powerful with Pulverize. They are the most powerful
ground melee unit. If you are facing advanced melee units such as
Knights or Druids of the Claw, you need to move up to Tauren to combat
them. Use Raiders
Raiders are needed when facing air units and for attacking enemy towns.
You can also gain resources with their Pillage ability. Raiders quickly
destroy buildings so build at least 4 of them and use them to sneak in,
destroy a building, and run. You'll find Raiders are often better than
Demolishers for killing buildings. Use Spirit Walkers
Spirit Walkers have various purposes, they best work in combination
with Tauren. In fact if you plan to use Tauren, they're a must have.
They can also be used for their Spirit Link ability which helps your
units to survive longer when they are under focused fire, and they are
great for scouting while in ethereal mode, which could also help you to
buy items from shops that are still guarded by creeps if you've
researched the backpack upgrade.

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Deafeding orcs
Kill The Burrows!
Burrows are the big weakness of the Orcs. If you can get in and kill
their Burrows they will no longer have food to build their army. This
will also reduce the defenses of the town. Ranged units work the best
such as Archers with Improved Bows. Any unit can work but it can be
more difficult with melee units if the town is built correctly.

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Cast Faerie Fire on the Tauren and Grunts. This can make them much easier to kill.

Units and Heros respectively

Heroes
Farseer: Still one of the mainstays, you really can't go wrong with
Farseer first. He can harass and creep, and maintains some
effectiveness later on. Recommended skill build is Wolves/Chain until
6, then Earthquake and round off with Farsight. Careful though, he's
pretty fragile

Blademaster: Gaining popularity pretty quickly, the Blademaster is best
used first against Elf. Use him to harass creeping, steal items, and
kill Wisps. Wind Walk and Critical Strike are the skills of choice,
with his ultimate Bladestorm picked up as soon as possible. You can use
him solo for some quick leveling, or grab a second hero to creep with
while you continue to pester your opponent non-stop with this quick
hero.

Tauren Chieftain: The most common second hero, and often used to creep
with your army while your primary hero continues to harass.
Shockwave/Endurance aura are your skills of choice usually, but War
Stomp should not be overlooked if you are massing air vs Undead for
example. Always get Endurance Aura though, since he does not have the
manapool for two spells.

Shadow Hunter: The second hero of choice for Orc mirror and a popular
hero versus Night Elf. Use Hex/Wards/Wards/Hex/Wards for your skills in
this matchup. When used vs Elf, the same skill build is used to pick
off Huntresses quickly.



Units:

Grunt: Can be used in every single match-up, Grunts have high
durability and a pretty respectable damage output. You can't go wrong
adding these into your army. Just remember to get Berserker Strength at
tier 2. Otherwise, they're pretty poor units.

Head Hunter: Used very rarely because of their low durability and short
range. However their damage output is pretty respectable and their cost
and build time is low. This is the unit of choice against Hippogryph
Riders and Dragonhawks.

Demolisher: While it's lost some popularity recently, it's still useful
agaisnt Night Elves who have a lot of Unarmored ranged units (Read:
Druids of the Talon en masse). If you do have these in your army and
you reach tier 3, the Burning Oil upgrade makes these useful against
units with Heavy and Medium armor as well.

Raider: These units have been popular for quite some time, but limit
their number to about 3. Ensnare is an excellent skill for ganking
units that are nowhere near their army, and also stops workers from
repairing in the case of a base-race.

Wyvern: A unit that hasn't been used quite so much recently, they still
have a high damage output and a lot of mobility. They are used vs Human
and Undead most, but you will need good heroes to make them work. Their
tier 3 upgrade is usefull, but not necessary.

Batrider: These are good anti-air units, but once the enemy gets 3
armor upgrades, these units become almost worthless. While great
against light air, Chimaera, Gryphons, and Frost Wyrms will require
Wyvern or another form of damage output. They are also great for taking
out town halls with Liquid Fire.

Kodo Beast: These are most-used in Orc mirror because of the high cost
of Orc units. Raiders with Ensnare will keep these units from eating,
so be careful of them. Once armies get large, having one in your army
simply for its aura effect is very useful.

Shaman: I do not recommend using these early on, just add them once the
enemy summon heroes get much higher in level. I would never use them
against Undead, and some people have found Bloodlust useful in Orc
mirror, but this is one of your less-used units. They're useful vs
Human for Lightning Shield and Purge, and good against Beastmaster
summons, but hold off in favor of Raiders for a little while.

Witch Doctor: Probably the best caster for team games, the Witch Doctor
wards are extremely useful in almost all situations. In solos though,
the investment in the training is usually not worth it.

Spirit Walker: Underrated casters with some useful spells, you usually
see them when countering Necrowagon. Spirit Link is strong, and can
cause Spellbreakers to lose mana stealing it for what it's worth, but
it also fuels Destroyers. Ultimately, not very useful outside of AoE
dispel and the occasional use in Orc mirror.

Tauren: Used more in teams than in solo, Tauren are the best melee unit
in the game from damage to durability. However they require tier 3 and
their own structure and additionally cost a lot. But with the cover of
your teammates, pulling out a lot of Tauren can turn many a game

Strategies/Harassing with Heroes

Blademaster

There are a few methods of harassing with a Blademaster. The "Wind Walk
and Run" is the most effective, but it's not the only one.


Wind Walk Biatching: Have your Blademaster run into the enemy base, and
immediately begin to attack their worker units. A number of things can
happen from there.


Orc Burrows: If you're playing against someone who's new to the game,
often their first reaction to harassing is to have all peons flee to
the burrows. This, of course, is exactly what you want them to do. Once
they've burrowed, run away from the base, Wind Walk, and return. Wait
for him to send his peons back to work, and then continue to the
assault. If the player brings his hero and other units to stop you,
Wind Walk out of there. During the harass, you may Wind Walk from time
to time to get that bonus damage and quickly kill of a worker. If you
do this, pay close attention to you mana. Nothing like getting stuck in
an orc base with no mana, and all the burrows firing on you, and a hero
and some tier one units cornering you.

Militia: Rushing a Human base can be a bit more difficult than rushing
an Orc base. The only thing stoppin your blademaster from choppin the
peasants would be the irritating Arcane tower, however that can be
dealt with quite easily if hit in the start (as he would have to waste
resources repairing etc) On top of that, you'll probably end up killing
a few of his workers. It's usually a good idea to harass a little, Wind
Walk out of there, and then return. Don't worry about losing your hero
in the process; when you take into consideration the damage you've done
to his gold stockpile, you come out ahead in the game.

Undead: Undead is great to harass with the BM. All the acolytes can do
is run away like pansies. Unless there's some Spirit or Nerubian
Towers, or they're teching and they get a Halls of the Dead quickly,
you're free to go Acolyte Hunting. One thing to watch for is the Undead
Heroes
and the Ghouls. They can easily corner you by the gold mine the point where
you can't escape; if that happens, your hero's basically dead
(windwalking out will help but focus with tower and coil can be gg).
Remember that you can Wind Walk for bonus damage, but don't do it too
much. It's usually best to just Wind Walk the hell out of there as soon
as you meet resistance.

Wisps: By far the most effective and fun harassing to do in the Game.
All you do is load up go and hit whatever wisp is a little away from
the moonwell. A good base build will prevent you from hitting any wisps
(like hiding inside the 2 tree formation thingy..) however such a
building placement would leave moonwells to be hit with, once the wisps
come to repair them slash them. If you find that none of that
happening, then go and hit the heros or steal items with last shot
kills and/or take out the low hp archers instead.


Mirror Image Creeping: Least used unless your planning to do the
creeping more than the attacking, in which case its better to get a Far
seer. However if you insist on using him and his Image, then set up
image and hit creeps then use blademaster to diss the damage. When you
cast image the previous image is lost and a new one is got (at level 1).


Critical Strike: Players will often choose Critical Strike as the
second ability for the Blademaster, since it makes him a more efficient
creeper. However, this can also make him an effective harasser. But
good players generally go for the windwalk for the extra bonus damage
which is a good compliment to the ww.This doesn't mean Critical Strike
is the worst ability for harassing. If you can creep quickly enough and
reach level 2 with the Blademaster, having Critical Strike and Wind
Walk at the same time can lead to very good results.


Harassing NE: Harassing a NE base is difficult. You can't hinder their
gold income, and you can't take out their hero or supporting units due
to the Moon Well. The best course of action is usually to just Wind
Walk strike the lumber harvesting wisps and dispatch as many as you can
before met with resistance. Once a hero unit and some archers are
firing your way, it's best to just Wind Walk your ass out.



Far Seer

The Far Seer, is one of the best heros of the orc game. Feral Spirit
and Chain Lightning are both great harassing abilities, but if the
player takes a defensive stance and burrows or calls arms, you're in
trouble. While not as capable as the Blademaster, the Far Seer can
still harass effectively. He outdoes the Blademaster in creeping,
however, and Chain at higher levels can own the little hp units.


Feral Spirit Harassing: Harassing with the Feral Spirits can be
effective or completely useless. They're not very strong, and if the
player takes advantage of basic base defenses, the wolves will drop
pretty quickly especially with the mass XP that the wolves give when
they die. It's best to focus the attacks of both the wolves and the
Seer on one worker unit. Always seperate your wolves when hittin an NE
base because one deto can take out level 1 wolves in a jiffy.

Build Orders

The orc build order is of 2 types generally.


Two Grunt tech:

This is by far one of the most used Build orders of the game.

i) You start with one peon out of the starting 5 on altar, the other 4 on gold.
ii) First one out builds burrow.
iii) second one out builds a barrack
iv) Third one out goes on to the Gold mine (making a total of 5 on Gold).
v) From then on take about 6 to Wood. to ensure a good economy supply.
Always use this Tech if your on a small map, coz your liable to be rushed if you dont have any units.


Fast Tech:

This BO works good if your going to hit WindRiders or Fast tech to Tier
3 (not done mostly..). Where the Build order is almost same as above,
But instead of getting a Barrack up you just put 7 peons on Wood, 5 on
gold and take Hero out to harass. On hitting Tier 2 get the 2
Beastiaries or whatever your strategy is from here onwards..


Fast Tech (with Late Barracks):

Exactly same as above, upon Teching once you hit 50 Lumber, build a
barracks, and then the next 40 lumber build a burrow. Keep pumping
Grunts as you can afford them.

Items

Healing Salve - The best
source of healing for Orc early on and most likely throughout the game.
Take advantage of these as much as possible, excellent for creeping and
harassing.

Clarity Potion - Heals mana over time, good when you just finished a battle or during a harass.

Speed Scroll - One of the best items in the game, great for moving
through the meat units and hitting the back. Also useful for surrounds,
catching up to units, microing units that would otherwise die. ONLY 50
GOLD!

Potion of Healing - Heals health. Learn the hotkey for this, if you can
do it fast enough when your hero is low HP and being focused, it can
save your game. Also great vs. UD hero nuke.

Potion of Mana - Heals mana, stick one on your TC if you find yourself with extra gold lying around.

Town of Scroll Portal - Try to keep one on you at all time in case something bad happens. Teleports you to your base.

Orb of Lightning - Second best Orb in the game, potentially purges
units. Great on Blademaster or TC if you need extra Anti-Air. Costs a
lot.

Mini Town Hall - Makes a town hall really fast.. don't really suggest
using it unless you have a lot of gold lying around. Very situational
item, best used when you need to expand really, really fast

Blademaster/Mass Raiders and Batriders strat

This strategy involves the
use of raiders and bats to completely demolish the enemy’s buildings
wile using towers and a blademaster to defend your base and creep jack
the opponent. This strategy is the one popularised by the infamous
nc.dude.

Build Order
Start with the standard orc build
--4 peons to gold
--1 peon to alter, rally to wood
--6th peon to burrow, rally to wood
--7th peon to gold
--8th peon builds barracks, then rally to wood
--9-12th peons all to wood
--Summon the Blademaster on completion of the Altar
--When you have 40 wood build another burrow
--Get grunts, preferably around 2 first
--Hit the stronghold upgrade one resources allow
--Get the Voodoo Lounge up
--Build another burrow
--Build a tower
--Build 2 bestiaries upon reaching tier 2
--Add 2 more peons to wood
--Build more towers and burrows when necessary
--Research pillage (for that wonderful extra gold when hitting enemy buildings)
--Tech to fortress(try to do before you build towers so its fast)


Harassing/Creepjacking Tips with Blademaster

Once your BladeMaster is out. You should have scouted the enemy's
position by now. To do this, you should use the peon that comes out of
the Townhall just before the Altar is complete hence giving you
sufficient time for scouting. IF the map is a large one like Gnoll wood
then i'd suggest using the peon as well as sending the Blademaster in
the opposite direction of the peon-scout so as to quickly locate your
enemy. Alternatively, a grunt could be used to scout, but be aware that
the creeps/pathing might result in losing the grunt which is a definite
nono. Use the grunts and the Blademaster to hit the opponent and delay
his income of resources as much as possible (detailed in the Harassing
with BM Section). Using Grunts not only aids your harass, but also
makes the opponent presume your goin for mass grunts along with
blademaster. On reaching tier 2 build the beastiaries and start pumping
raiders and bats (around 4 or 5 raiders and 2 or 3 bats, and get
ensnare).

Once your raiders and bats are done, use them to hit the enemy’s key
buildings. This would be buildings such as the Barracks (of all races)/
Caster production buildings and the Shop (which drops very easily.). Do
not hit the main Townhall as that would be difficult to take out,
Ensnare any repairing workers. Destroy any towers if possible (if they
are surrounded by buildings or inaccessible, just let the raiders take
damage as they have resistance to pierce.) nce your enemy TPs in, run
away, you should’ve successfully destroyed at least one building and
wasted their TP. Keep pumping raiders and bats after you started the
tech to tier 3. Your Blademaster should be creeping with the Grunts
(yes this strat involves a lot of micromanagement).

At tier 3 get the awesome Liquid Fire upgrade for the bats. Then take
your whole army consisting of the hero/grunts/grunts/raiders and bats
to hit his townhall. Use a speedscroll to furthur increase attack
speed. If you have a decent number of units, you can destroy it before
he TPs in. If you almost killed it and he just TP’d in, then keep
attacking and tell your BM to TP out, hopefully if you timed right you
would’ve destroyed it by the time you TP’d out. If you destroyed the
hall before he TPs in wreck havoc in his base. Scout with a bat for a
possible expo and get that too if you can. A good thing to do would be
to use the bats to attack the expo while the raiders clean up his main
base, as bats with Liquid Fire prevent repairing of the buildings.
Build a tauren totem if you want one and get the fortified armor
upgrade for towers.

This strategy involves good usage of micro and smart decisions and is
an alternative to the mass Air Strategy involving the same build order
(barring building raiders)..


Blademaster/Mass Air strat

Involves the use of Wind Riders and Batriders with a quick tech to tier
3 with the Venom/Liquid Fire upgrades. The build order followed would
be the same as detailed above, with the exception of you skipping
raiders and going wind riders instead. Setting up an Expo away from
your opponent is a good way to ensure your resource supply.

Alternatively, the Barracks can be skipped totally and a shop built early along with a warmill.

Orc Strategies Detailed vs each race

Orc vs Orc


Farseer/ Shadow Hunter/ Grunts/ Raiders/ Kodo Beasts:

One of the most useful heros in the Orc mirror is by far the Shadow
Hunter. The reason is that his spells are all useful in an Orc mirror.
-- Healing Wave to heal low hp units.
-- Hex to trap/prevent units from escapin and allowing for easy focus fire as the unit cannot hit you back.
-- Ward (you get free towers for so little mana, you shouldn't be complaining).

--Get an early barracks since every single grunt does matter a lot in
the early game of an orc mirror. The player who builds a late barracks
tend to lose out to early pressure.

When to use what spell combo?

- Healing wave + ward for grunt + kodo
(since ward's piercing is good against kodo's armour)

- healing wave + hex for grunt + raider
(since ward's piercing is weak against raider's armour)

- ward + hex is for mass grunts
(since hex can help you to stop retreating units and wards are good)

- A lot of the pros use hex + wards. Perhaps the logic behind this is
that these 2 skills are cheap (mana) yet effective. The Shadow Hunter
is almost always able to cast serpent wards since they cost only 35
mana.

Grunts + Grunts > Grunts + Raiders > Grunts + Kodo > Grunts + Grunts

(that is if the raiders ensnare the kodobeasts to prevent them from devouring)

1) 4 peons to goldmine
2) 1 peon to build altar
3) 6th peon to build orc burrow
4) 7th peon to goldmine
5) 8th peon to build barracks
6) 9th-12th peons to harvest lumber
7) Build an orc burrow with 40 lumber
Train 2 grunts
9) Tech to tier 2
10) Build a beastiary and a warmill (you can choose not to if you are
getting raiders but a warmill is needed to get demolishers and build
defensive towers in case you get towered)
11) Summon a Shadow Hunter

I feel that you should always play defensively, and creep. This is
because level 3 is very important for both your heroes, where you get
level 2 wolves and level 2 wards. If both of you play defensively and
creep, you should try to get a creepjack after your farseer reaches
level 3. Scrolls of healing and protection are also very important
(like the night elf mirror).

When you have a good advantage, you have two options to make the best
use out of it. The first is to finish off your opponent. Send 3 peons
to start towering outside your opponent's base. Do not build it too
close or else your opponent would be able to destroy them. Try to do
this when your opponent is creeping elsewhere, so that your towers go
up without interference. Start getting demolishers so that you can hit
his buildings while hiding behind the towers. You should also train
kodo beasts instead of raiders, since you can devour and run behind the
towers. If you are getting towered, start building defensive towers and
get demolishers too. Use them to attack the towers or the opponent's
demolishers. Do remember to repair them. The other way is to get an
expansion and research upgrades/buy expensive items like scrolls with
the additional gold. You might want to research pillage and use hit and
run tactics on your opponent's base to get a little bit of resources
and waste his gold (use a scroll of speed to run more quickly when he
TPs home). As long as you have the hero advantage and the item
advantage (scrolls), you should most probably win.

During early battles, try to kill the feral spirits since they give
lots of xp in this patch. Of course, this will be at the expense of
your farseer's health, so I suggest you get a voodoo lounge right after
you tech so that you can heal up.

Fighting casters: Grunt raider kodo is definitely no match for tauren
casters. You should either rush (with demolishers if he has towers or
get casters too and expand).

--You should never use windriders, since orc has the best anti-air
against low hitpoint air units. Using them would mean that you are
plain stupid or brave or gosu (if you do have skill in using them after
all).

-- As for map specifications, just creep with the same old creeping
patterns, hang around the goblin merchant especially on Gnoll Wood to
buy scrolls since there are 4 of them.



Other Alternatives

Blademaster/ Shadow Hunter / Tauren Chieftain / shamans / witch doctors / taurens/ spirit walkers:

Certain players are not used against fighting tauren casters. Also,
controlling only one hero throughout the early stages of the game is
even easier than DoTA. If your opponent tries to launch an early attack
on you with demolishers, you can try to purge and hex and windwalk the
Farseer to force a teleport. If he loses his hero but continues the
invasion, then I suppose you should take down the demolishers (after
all how many can he get?)

1) 4 peons to goldmine
2) 1 peon to build altar
3) 6th peon to build orc burrow
4) 7th peon to goldmine
5) 8th peon to build warmill
6) 9th-12th peons to harvest lumber
7) Build a voodoo lounge
7) Tech to tier 2
Build a watchtower and a burrow, followed by another tower and burrow
9) When your blademaster is out, buy 1 healing salve, 2 clarity potions and a scroll of speed
10) Run towards your opponent's base and prepare for a fight (windwalk
to weaken the Farseer, then kill the Farseer with a scroll of speed if
you have no more mana for windwalk).
11) At tier 2, build 2 spirit lodges and summon a Shadow Hunter (with healing wave + hex).
12) Tech to tier 3 for a Tauren Chieftain (War Stomp + Endurance, since Shockwave is ineffective on grunts) and taurens
13) Start training adept shamans and witch doctors. Start creeping and
place a sentry ward at every location you creep, thus spamming the map
with sentry wards. This is as good as a maphack (the best form of
scouting in the whole of warcraft).
14) Get an orb of lightning for your Blademaster, to assist against any
air menace (get a beastiary for bats if your opponent tries to get
windriders and a kodo beast for the command aura). You can also get one
for your Tauren Chieftain too.
15) Research the master upgrades for all the casters. When you have master walkers, you will never lose a tauren again.
16) During battle, autocast bloodlust, cast 3 statis traps and 3
healing wards (2 in front and 1 behind). Cast wand of lightning shield
on the Blademaster and start attempting to slay the Farseer with
windwalk + hex + warstomp. Cast spirit link on the heroes too. GG!


Beastmaster/Firelord with grunts + raiders:

The beastmaster is the good old anti-orc hero. Just use him with the
skills quilbeast + hawk or bear + hawk and defeat your enemy with your
powerful summons. Basically since you force the enemy to go casters and
reduce the hp of his army, you use the mass summons strat against him,
Goin summoned units to force the easily killable casters

Orc Vs Human

Far Seer / Tauren Chieftain / Grunts / Shamans / Spiritwalkers or Demos (if needed).

-- Maps for this matchup
i) Lost Temple
ii) 2 rivers
iii)Turtle Rock

--This is a matchup that was viewed as in the Orc's Favour for a long
time in 1.17 however with the buff on the Arcane tower it is quite
balanced in my opinion. The standard human army will always go
Archmage/ Mountain King/ Rifles and Casters to slow and focus fire
grunts. Hence the main strategy would be take out the annoying slow and
also to use the Deadly Chain Wave combo to polish off the lower hp
units of the Human Army.

-- Another push that is done on tavern maps is the infamous
Archmage/Beastmaster/ Mass casters skipping rifles Strategy, which is
also quite effective but can be taken out in the following manner.

-- Tier 1 is where orc dominates with wolves and grunt harass, note to
win you must end the game before the human reaches tier 3 and also to
prevent fast expansion or deal as much as damage while that is set.

-- Always get adept shamans for the deadly Lightning shield that can
wreak havoc when put on the TC or grunts. Good positioning is a must
and purging of the heavy hp water elementals will ensure good
experience bonus for the heros. Add in demos if the caster army is
rather large (which you should prevent with early game harass).

) 4 peons to goldmine
2) 1 peon to build altar
3) 6th peon to build orc burrow
4) 7th peon to goldmine
5) 8th peon to build barracks
6) 9th-12th peons to harvest lumber
7) Build an orc burrow with 40 lumber
Tech on 180 lumber.
9) While teching, set up a shop and another burrow.
10) hitting Tier 2 get a TC, adept shamans, either powercreep tc to
level 3 while constantly harassing with farseer (watch out for bolt
stun surround so buy a staff of teleportation when harassing)


Far Seer / Tauren Chieftain / mass Air

--This is a strategy that was popularised of late by constantly
harassing the Human player and preventing the Blacksmith as well as the
expansion to go up. This would then allow you to put up dual
beastiaries for wyverns and after about 5-6 wyverns are got, you can
hit the peasants and the stop economy, thus almost ending the game
there.

-- maps for this
i) Gnoll Wood
ii) Twisted Meadows
iii) Possibly Lost temple.

Orc Vs Undead

FarSeer/ Tauren Chieftain / Grunt / raider /Windrider

When it comes to this matchup, The undead can go 2 ways.

a) Death Knight/Lich Fiends to Aboms/Destroyers
b) Death Knight/Dreadlord/ Ghouls/Gargs/Destroyers.

-- Always note that you have to hit the Undead early before their heros
level up and they reach researched tier 3 units. If that happens, you
might as well quit or have Grubby's micro to be able to snag a win.

Either way the only real way to beat Orc as undead would be to get
those terrible destroyers. I would suggest you download 2 of Uruk's
Audio Commentaries, where he has detailed how to deal with either of
the options that the undead uses. Banshees are more popular this patch
with the reduced build time on them, but die in a single hit (well
almost) so you wont see any undeads going that. For the silly Mass
necrowagon strat, just get 3 walkers and your fine with 600 mana on
each of them.


1) 4 peons to goldmine, 1 peon to build altar
2) 6th peon to build orc burrow
3) 7th peon to goldmine
4) 8th - 12th peons to harvest lumber
5) Tech when you have 190 lumber
6) Build a barracks when you have 50 lumber
7) Build a burrow when you have 40 lumber
Build a voodoo lounge
9) Creep and send the nearly dead wolf to a goldmine to scout
11) At tier 2, summon a Tauren Chieftain and build a beastiary (2 if he goes ghouls)
12) Start training grunts and raiders.

Undead that go Ghouls/Gargs strat

--Orc's best chance is to go windriders, since they deal quite a lot of
damage. You still need about 4-5 grunts though, since they have a lot
more hp than windriders. A couple of raiders would be very useful to
ensnare fiends (which any sensible undead would switch to). You should
make sure you take out the statues in the battle , coz they are very
help ful to the undead units. So priority wise.

--Statues > Fiends > rest of the army. The Death Knight is always
a good target with the reduced armour but watch out for pots and
scrolls on the undead.

--If the Undead go Aboms, you WILL need Kodos to devour and also
walkers for the awesome spirit link. Don't stick to grunts/heros alone
to beat their tier3.

-- Always activate scroll of protection and scroll of speed at the
start of the battle. Ensnare as per the equation 2 tips above and hit
out as many chain wave combos as you can. Then ensnare the fiends and
try to focus fire on them with everything you have. Devour the aboms
from the army and rinse repeat.

-- Towering is a good option by setting towers on outside at night.
Fiends will beat the tower push, but ghouls/gargs would find it very
difficult.


Undead that go fiends

Grunt raider combo is your best bet, with forcing the undead player to
switch away from the slow fiends to ghouls with frenzy or aboms, in
which case you switch back to mass air (riders+bats). This is a game of
counters. So it would be good to get an army of mass grunts and some
raiders for ensnare (once again, if there is no ensnare, the undead can
micro his fiends away and you will lose out in the long run).

-- Constantly make use of scrolls

-- Keep creeping and creeping and creeping and level up the TC's wave or Stomp (either work very well against fiends).

--Set up your own expansion when you are at 50/50 (this is the only
reason Orc Ud matchup is biased towards orc, enabling you to set up
your expo really quick.)

--Destroyers beat most of what orc has to throw at them, so the best
way to beat them, is to make sure there arent' any destroyers, this is
not always possible with the good undead base defence, hence its
imperative that you get 2 beastiaries with mass air and 2 bats for
every unupgraded destroyer. otherwise research attack and hit different
destros with concotion so as to effectively make use of the splash
damage. Watch out for orbed destros as they just shamlessly walk all
over the horde.

Mass Summons Strat

--This would be Crypt Lord/Tinker strat with mass summons, skip the
second beastiary and go Spirit Lodge with adept walkers for taking out
those pesky beetles. The most important thing is to set up your expo.

Orc vs Night Elf

A NightElf player has many options that they can throw at you and early
scouting is a must to find out what strat they use. Generally its
broken down like this..

i) DH / Archers/ Beastmaster/ Talons
ii) Beastmaster/Firelord/Dryads/Talons/Hunts

Basically its either the massing hunts or no massing hunts strat. Of
late the Orcs have 2 strats open to them and the more popular one is
definitely the Blademaster strat.

FarSeer/Tauren Chieftain (or Shadow Hunter) / Grunt / Raider strat

--Of late the Farseer is almost never used due to the heavy experience
given out by the wolves and the quick death suffered by the Farseer.
and if a Night Elf can set up expos your almost as good as dead. This
strat involves the heavy use of harass and hitting the Elf early using
the Orc's high hp tier 1 units (namely grunts) and constantly harassing
during the day, retreating at night and attacking again. A best (cheesy
maybe) strat i usually employ is a Tower rush with 3 peons and dual
barracks for Grunts/Demos. The Gruntapult in other words. However a
skilled NE will tear that apart as demos are really slow, so switching
to raiders with a single beastiary and towering would seem wise. Never
tower at night and right into the ne base where the NE can make use of
imbalanced moonwells and ancients to destroy the rush.

--Towering is advised for all hero combos except the beastmaster who can take it down pretty quickly.

-- In that case get more grunts and a Tauren Chieftain against an
archer + dott army and get demolishers and a Shadow Hunter against a
hunt + dryad army. 1 barrack + 1 beastiary is better than 2 barracks
because you can get a kodo beast for command aura and the raider's
ensnare is exceptionally good for surrounding weak heroes like the
Warden and the Keeper.

-- The Shadow Hunter works best against massing hunt ne players as well
those that stick to unarmoured, with wards as level 2 resembling towers
in damage, you are going to dish out a lot of damage to those units.
Add in a good mix of Grunts + Raiders + Demolishers and you should be
well on your way to beating the towers.

-- Always take hex first if your not rushing the NE as the SH's first
skill which is very good to take out hunts and other unarmoured in the
beginning as well as heros to prevent harass.

Build Order is the same as before

1) 4 peons to goldmine, 1 peon to build altar
2) 6th peon to build orc burrow
3) 7th peon to goldmine
4) 8th peon to build barracks
5) 9th - 12th peons to harvest lumber
6) Build an orc burrow when you have 40 lumber
7) Tech when you have 190 lumber
While teching, get a Voodoo Lounge, another orc burrow and a Warmill (if you are getting demolishers)
9) At tier 2, get a Tauren Chieftain/Shadow Hunter and build a beastiary

--The elf has the upperhand through out from Tier 2 (imo) so the best
way to really beat elf is to stick to Grunt/Raider/Demo combo with hero
spells and Scrolls to keep your army alive. Forget teching to Tier 3
for casters as by then, the Elf's army would be double yours and with
the summon heros, you'll hardly stand a chance.

Ciara Troll Rush Strat

On maps such as Twisted Meadows and Gnoll Wood, i have seen a very
successful strat of MYM]Ciara wherein you creep the camps after getting
your second hero and buy troll berserkers. These mercenaries really do
a lot of damage and will be well protected behind the powerful meat of
the grunts. Add in demos and tower to ensure you have an upperhand
throughout the attack period.

-- For Mass summons its better off to get shamans instead of raiders.
If you use the Tauren Chieftain with a wand of lightning shield
properly, you should have no problem destroying archers with shockwave
and chain lightning. Get more of them if the 2nd hero is a firelord.
Your first priority should be to purge the hawks, followed by the lava
spawns. If you do have spare mana, then purge the quilbeasts. If he is
getting a lot of talons together with mass summons, then I suggest
getting spirit walkers to disenchant everything.

-- Another strat recently used by DayFly was the mass Grunt/Walker
strat which i have seen him use to a lot of effectiveness with upgrades
on armour makin it very very tough to take out the Orc units. However,
this requires very very precise timing and is not advisable for a
beginner to the race.

Build Order for Towering the Elf

1) 4 peons to goldmine, 1 peon to build altar
2) 6th peon to build orc burrow
3) 7th peon to goldmine
4) 8th peon to build barracks
5) 9th - 12th peons to harvest lumber
6) Build an orc burrow when you have 40 lumber
7) Build a Warmill and another burrow
Send 3 peons to your opponent's base and start building towers while you beat the crap out of his archers or moonwells.

Blademaster Strat

--Detailed in the sections above, where instead of Farseer you go
Blademaster for early harass on wisps and also to creepjack the
opponent before the talon abuse.