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Strategy Central - Home
 Last Updated November 20, 1999

There are currently 16 strategy guides below, not counting the Preface of course. Right now I have simply indexed these strategies here, but if these guides should grow and new guides should be added, I might devise a new way of indexing them and displaying them for convenience. Enjoy:

A preface to my strategies

I strongly urge you to read this before going to any of my other strategy pages. It should help you understand my philosophy on strategies, and their importance to various levels of players!

Basic strategy guide

This is a basic strategy guide that touches on many of the basic and intermediate techniques, with case studies on various situations and strategy for different stages of a typical game, rather than just a list of helpful tips.

Submitted strategies

See strategies from around the world from people that have sent them in. Submit your best strategies too with the submission form!

The WarCraft II Hotkeys

If you are always beaten to EVERYTHING and you still a "mouse player", come on in and learn the hotkeys to greatly increase your skill and speed!

Land strategies

Has all the basics- general tips and guides for building, attacking, and defending on land maps, and some more advanced techniques as well.

Sea strategies

Contains basic tips for success on sea maps, such as help with ships, invading, and good defense, and advanced naval strategies to help you claim the sea.

Rush/build orders for land

All the best ways to claim early victory are in here, complete with build orders and my opinions. Check out my High resource build order!

Rush/build orders for sea

This guide will help you become more aggressive at sea maps, with build orders and tips to succeeding at early sea invasions and be more successful in longer campaigns as well.

Invasion orders and tips

Learn the best ways to take your enemy by using the right invasion orders and tactics! Also has some miscellaneous invasion tips. Useful if you intend on beating other players!

My ultimate strategy

These are my masterpeice ideas for both of the races, showing my opinions and techniques to use when playing as the Dreaded Orcs or Noble Humans.

Individual unit strategies

Has characteristics of each unit, complete with a strategic description of each.

Spell strategies

In depth look at each spell, its weaknesses, strengths, and associated strategies.

Rules for winning games

A more general guide to winning with rules you should follow if you want to be more victorious.

Reasons why games are lost

To be read after losses, this can help you find your mistakes and correct them.

Single player mission strategies

A guide with strategies for each of the single player missions found in Warcraft II for both races.

The tower controversy

Which towers should you use? Besides common sense, check this out for a side by side comparison.

The race comparison

The races aren't entirely alike, and in this guide you can get a run down of the differences in each of the two races during and throughout different stages of a game.

 

Copyright ©1999 by Matthew A. Butcher. 

this site is no longer active so I have

 activated my backup of the site

here is the old url

http://warcraft2.blizzardgames.com/strat.html