What really grinds your gears?

[Slugger]

What I really hate is when people spam urbans.

And I also hate when Im paired with a teammate who forms noob box who tells me its an effective strategy.

[dacder]

an ally who lacks communication skills.

[Gigantus]

Let me be preemptive so I don't have to come back: as long as this is a general complaint thread everything will be fine with me. If it starts getting too close to a rule break you won't have time left to complain further.

[avesta]

1) People who quit before the game starts. They waste everyone's time.
2) People who have no teamwork skills and won't coordinate attacks with their teammates

[caesar_37th]

An ally who requires everything to be planned out.

[Magic_8_Ball]

I find it kind of annoying when a loser has to make sure the winner knows he played "his worst game ever" every single time he loses. I'm well aware that people make mistakes, and I myself sometimes find the need to say "lolfail" when I screw up, but there's no need to emphasize that you played bad every single game.

[|Sith| Max]

Well one of the most important things to learn is how to take a loss like a man. I don't lose often, but when i do, i fight on till the last unit goes down, and i say gg. (if it was a gg ofc)

[Magic_8_Ball]

[|Sith| Max]

[Bringer Of Storms]

I can't stand when the opponent does the noob box after routing my missile units. then its time to charge from all sides... Yay..

[dacder]

hedgehog....not noob box.

[Bringer Of Storms]

hedgehog....not noob box.

Hmm. Never heard hedgehog before. But i like it.

[|-HoS-|-Zeke]

I am always willing to play with a noob as my ally, but when they give me advice it's annoying.

[Facemelter]

Haha, well, if I had to choose, it would be the spamming of Archer Calvary, one of my main pet peeves.

[Lord_Of_Da_Emo's]

I hate when i have to fight against spammed urbans/praetorian cavs/cretan archers/cataphracts and specially chariots.But I take care of it by kicking out these spamming noobs =D

[Facemelter]

Having to kick em' out can be dissatisfying at times as well.

[dacder]

or when they call you a noob.

[Domen123]

And I also hate when Im paired with a teammate who forms noob box who tells me its an effective strategy.

Noob box is not an effective strategy but it was used in real history (!).

For example Seleucid Phalanx & Silver Shields used what we call "noob box" in the final phase of the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC. There were also 22 Seleucid elephants inside that "noob box". Romans and their Greek allies did not attack that box directly, but started to spray it with a rain of pillas, javelins, arrows and stones (slingers).

As the result Seleucid elephants - hurt by javelins and arrows - started to rage and panic, trampling and disorganizing their own Phalanx "noob box":

Magnesia:



The battle ended with a slaughter of Seleucid infantry. So yes - it only proofs that noob box is not a good strategy.

BTW - in the battle of Magnesia king Antioch was a "total noob" - he lost control over his army after chasing the routed Roman left wing with his cataphracts instead of "rolling" and routing the rest of the Roman army. Then he also wrongly deployed his chariots and shortly after attacking the Romans, those chariots (horses drawing them) started to rage, turned back and massacred his own cavalry and Galatian infantry - it was yet before that "noob box".

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BTW - corner camping or red line camping is also not a very good tactics:



But it will be harder to find examples of "corner / red line" camping in real history.

Perhaps at Thermopylae Spartan "noob" Leonidas applied "corner" camping. And Spartans were slaughtered by Persians in the end too.

[Domen123]

2) People who have no teamwork skills and won't coordinate attacks with their teammates

I noticed that there are actually some people who probably think that it is perhaps "not honourable" to interrupt when 2 other players fight.

They probably have a wrong concept of what a team vs team battle is...

[|Sith| Max]

I am always willing to play with a noob as my ally, but when they give me advice it's annoying.

Yeah but luckily you can steal their kills.

or when they call you a noob.

Yeah but luckily you can own em after the current match.

Noob box is not an effective strategy but it was used in real history (!).

For example Seleucid Phalanx & Silver Shields used what we call "noob box" in the final phase of the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC. There were also 22 Seleucid elephants inside that "noob box". Romans and their Greek allies did not attack that box directly, but started to spray it with a rain of pillas, javelins, arrows and stones (slingers).

As the result Seleucid elephants - hurt by javelins and arrows - started to rage and panic, trampling and disorganizing their own Phalanx "noob box":

Magnesia:



The battle ended with a slaughter of Seleucid infantry. So yes - it only proofs that noob box is not a good strategy.

BTW - in the battle of Magnesia king Antioch was a "total noob" - he lost control over his army after chasing the routed Roman left wing with his cataphracts instead of "rolling" and routing the rest of the Roman army. Then he also wrongly deployed his chariots and shortly after attacking the Romans, those chariots (horses drawing them) started to rage, turned back and massacred his own cavalry and Galatian infantry - it was yet before that "noob box".

==================

BTW - corner camping or red line camping is also not a very good tactics:



But it will be harder to find examples of "corner / red line" camping in real history.

Perhaps at Thermopylae Spartan "noob" Leonidas applied "corner" camping. And Spartans were slaughtered by Persians in the end too.

Wonder if they did teabagging back then.

I noticed that there are actually some people who probably think that it is perhaps "not honourable" to interrupt when 2 other players fight.

They probably have a wrong concept of what a team vs team battle is...

When your allies need your help, steal their kills instead. Zeke, pic plz.