NE~How do you counter rifles ?

[TheS|leNTAssass|N]

I tryed Hunts ... dryads .... but those riflemen are still alive ?! I focus fire on one and until it's dead I lose 2 hunts ... cuz they focus fire on the hunts and ..... and I get easily owned ... ((

[Ntrik_]

bears + mgs + dyrads
and 2 heros.

[TheS|leNTAssass|N]

thankz ... I'll try that

[MELON]

hi there i'm not so good to give u advises but i'll tell u why hunts die so fast versus rifles.Hunts are unarmored and rifles' piercing attack does extra damage to them.Same with dryads.You can try one mountain giant and ar4ers(medium armor)This is from me u can try it and remember kill them one by one with all the arcers u've made.

[Ntrik_]

hunts are only good for harassing in tier 1, nothing more.

and dont use archers, why? low life = gay ness

plus dyrads > archers cuz of slow poison and abolish.

and remember HU users wont totally mass up rifles, they will combine with knights and priests. Thats why u need dyrads to abolish innerfire, slow etc.. and MG to tank, DotC to heal mgs and heros.

and DOtt can cyclone those knights, and FF those rifles.

[TheS|leNTAssass|N]

Yay! I finally beated a human! ) This one wasn't massing rifles but was playing for sorcceress and knights ... it was a good game. Watch the replay. He's lvl 9 and I'm lvl 7...

[Dopple_Of_Stalin]

Hunts are good. 3/3 + Glaive. That is about 4 targets per hit + aura if you have Potm. Hunts are usually my second tier, followed by Chimera's or Bears. Bears work good with roar and the rejuvinate the hunts so the don't die.

[CrouchingTiger]

for rifles i normally go mg's and dryads. with resistant skin or w/e the rifles only do like 10 damage and then there damage is reduced even more by the mg's armor. and if they focus on the dryads, then the mg's will tear them apart. if they focus on mg's, mg's and dryads will tear them apart. dotts help alot too but thats becuz no one ever just masses rifles so u can ff the knights and mg's and dryads can kill em.

[Andrew]

archers and bears

[CrouchingTiger]

ok nvm i just played a game a couple hrs ago were 2 people massed rifles and thats it.

[Aragorn7]

Unfortunately for NE, rifles work extremely well at owning most NE units. You either have to do one of two things:

1. Out micro
2. Tech

[Ntrik_]

T hence this strat

Originally posted by N_LeGeNd)
bears + mgs + dyrads
and 2 heros.

mgs got medium armor, normal dmg and that dmg reduce upg. So they > Rifles

bears got healing and roar and heavy armor which isnt affected by pierce dmg, they also have high norm dmg too, so they > rifles

Dyrads can abolish WE, any slow or innerfires and they can slow enemy down as well.

[Theroy]

bears and dryads.

I didn't think humans had a counter to this but some one found one I think only one person has ever used it on me the only human loss I had for a long time.

[Andrew]

bears, dyrads, and archers

bears have roar and good tanks with rejuv, dyrads dispell his summons, archers are also good vs rifles

[WiZ_h4x0r]

Yea Rifles>Hunts. So go Archer+MG.Maybe Dryad for anti Slow.

[Andrew]

Originally posted by WiZ_h4x0r
Yea Rifles>Hunts. So go Archer+MG.Maybe Dryad for anti Slow.

That would work, but you might also want to add in Bears to rejuv the MGs.

[TheS|leNTAssass|N]

Yeah ... yeah. Thankz for the answers! :P

[Andrew]

You are welcome, sir.

[AHappyChineseBoy]

Mass archers, they dont die verse peircing, remember? they have that special ability

and get a good tanking hero or a kotg for entangle ; )

i rarely ever have trouble with rifles unless its a team game

[Andrew]

You know the guy could always switch to footies with defend. They aren't expensive.