3ICE's Fastest Map Possible 3.7

My name is Daniel, I was born in 1990, I'm a student and I live in Hungary. I got my first computer 4 years ago. I bought Warcraft 1 year ago. I spent the first half year playing, and the other half map making. I'm famous for my maps and mapping tutorials (found on http://www.3ice.hu/). People call me the best mapper on the world, but thats not true. I just know all triggers and my maps are written 100% in JASS. Which of course makes me special because I am the only pro map maker who still cares for the RoC community. Everyone switched to TFT. By the way please just call me ice.

http://www.3ice.hu/ is a website in English, about map making, Blizzard games, my maps, and a lot more. It has FAQs, tutorials, a nice forum and of course all my expertise, experience and helpfulness. Visit: http://www.3ice.hu/ (There will be advertisements on the site. If you click on them, I get some money. You know what to do :) Thanks.)

This map was made for RoC, and I do not plan to make a TFT one. TFT units, heroes, shops and upgrades were removed. Even if you play this on TFT you will not get global XP, and your heroes will gain XP from towers' kills.

Build order: Start off with an Altar and as many farms as you can. Workers: 5 on gold, 10-15 on lumber (So you can use the woodcutters for building). (Elf players get at least 30 wisps) Early game: Make 6 or 12 Barracks and upgrade to Tier 2. Mid game: Make 6 or 12 Tier 2 Barracks (Like Spirit Lodge, Arcane Sanctum, Ancient of Lore, Slaughterhouse) and upgrade to Tier 3. Late game: Make 6 or 12 Tier 3 barracks (Like Beastiary, Gryphon Aviary, Chimaera Roost, Boneyard) and now just fight. Tips: • Don't forget heroes! Get the first one as soon as your Altar is ready. Get the second one as soon as Tier 2 is ready. Get the third one as soon as Tier 3 is ready. • Set the rally point of all your Barracks to the hero. This way you don't accidently have idle soldiers while fighting.

Control Groups arent secret woodoo magic... Use them! (CTRL+1 the hero, CTRL+2 the Tier 1 Barracks, CTRL+3 the Tier 2 Barracks, and CTRL+4 The Tier 4 Barracks) Always cycle through these control groups, and if one of the buildings are idle, train something! • Never queue up 7 units in the same building. If you have so much gold, make more Barracks.

Don't mass air exclusively. If you don't have ground units, your hero will get owned. But expect that your opponents will mass air. The only way you can effectively fight it is by massing Anti-Air units. (Undead: Gargoyles with Level 3 Vampiric Aura and fight on Blight, Human: Gyrocopters, Night Elf: Hippogryphs and Archers (Do not mount!) with Level 3 Trueshot aura and Fight by your Moon Wells, Orc: Level 3 Shockwave (Tauren Chieftain) and Level 3 Chain Lightning (Far Seer))

The more food you are using, the more gold you get. Heres a table: 0-50 food: 50 gold 50-100 food: 52 gold 100-150 food: 55 gold 150-200 food: 57 gold 200-250 food: 60 gold 250-299 food: 62 gold 300 food: 65 gold Tips: • If you are at 299 food, make an extra worker, or kill a worker and make something that costs 2 food. • You can keep yourself at 300 food all the time, even when you are fighting. Simply re-training lost units instantly. • It is best to rush to 300 food while still in tier 1 or 2, instead of waiting until tier 3 is ready and then starting to mass air. No strategy is better than getting extra gold. And you can always suicide your tier 1 units into an enemy base.

Workers are built two times faster. Peasant 8s, Peon 8s, Acolyte 8s, Wisp 7s. (s=second). Workers gain 500% resources. So instead of +10, you will get +50. Lumber is the same, except undead players will get +100 (Because ghouls get 2X normal wood by default)

Buildings are built two times faster, except towers. They are as slow as in regular games to prevent tower rushing. Undead Spirit Towers are further crippled. (See "Spirit Towers" for description)

Undead buildings don't require blight in this map. This makes the undead a perfect tower-rusher. It had to be stopped, so I made Ziggurats upgrade into Spirit Towers very slow. I am sorry if this affects your defense, but keep in mind that Army > Towers.

Heroes summon more units than default. Far Seer: 2/3/4 Archmage: 1/2/3 Keeper of the Groove: (No trees required) 2/4/5 Dreadlord: Infernal is buffed to compensate. Additionally, the following hero abilities were buffed: Mass teleport (40units,1000AoE), Resurrection (12units,1000AoE), Bladestorm(300AoE), Earthquake(350AoE), Animate Dead(12units,1000AoE), Inferno(100damage,350AoE,Double Stun Length)

Every time I needed someone to help debugging the map script, Captain Griffen of wc3campaigns.net IRC was there to give useful advice. (irc://irc.wc3campaigns.net:6667) This map would not have been possible without the powerful JASS editor, JassCraft. (http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=80051) This map would be twice the size, without Vexorian's Map Optimizer. (http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=79326)