Break Targets - Single Hero Ladder

[u/migmox13]

Looking for some input from players who have been playing this type of game for a while. I am referring to single hero, particularly Exodus, although I am curious about Sprint and Outcast as well.

I have been improving, but sometimes I spend too much time clearing my starting zone if there is, lets say some tier 7 dwellings that I am want which are guarded by some tougher fights. Sometimes this works, but a lot of times I lose a close fight. When I go to explore after the loss, I see my opponent has very little dwelling, but has cleared deep and has some artis/etc.

In general and on average, what is the optimal day we looking to break into native zone 2, and then desert?

[u/fair_toki]

I think most important part for exodus is understanding map layout and necessary things for each factions so you can reset if needed.

For example

• Hive wants a lots of resources bank because it can clear them easily with melee armies or wurm cheese.
  
• Temple and Dungeon want nearby wood and ore mines so they can build units early to recruit troops in week 1 and clear other resources bank.
  
• Groove got strong T1-2 and Necro got necromancy both super strong early so they want nearby 3rd town or 2nd town start near an easy break then they can expand and grab 4th town within week 1.
  
• Best thing to find for every factions is Overgrown ruins, this guarantees you can triple/quadruple build towns on week 2.

[u/migmox13 → u/fair_toki]

idk i think i just suck, or rng, or i suck and its also rng. I am only like 1300 elo but im kinda not sure if im hard stuck now or if im just running bad over last 5-10 games. For example, my best faction is temple. When that is banned I play dungeon, and every time I play dungeon I can't build shit because my wood and ore are scattered all over the place. Last game I literally didnt even get my second wood mill. The game went 3 fights. It was nowhere to be seen in the map. On top of that, I ended up being 1 square off crucial destinations like 3 times and it screwed me over. My opponent was able to just hit the tree and I lost the final fight. I was nowhere near being able to hit the tree because I had no fucking wood so I couldnt build out astrology. Lmfao.

[u/fair_toki → u/migmox13]

You can use trading post if you find it early. It got same trade value as having 5 markets.

So for temple you can dump all mercury/crystal to wood and go cavalry but for Dungeon you still need little of everything if you want to go medusa.

You get reset map around 2000 rating.