V0.40
Alliance Farm System Remade!
New Raider and alliance heroes
Alliance's Defensive builder now has traps!
Mechanic replaced with forge <- With new techtree!

New Tier system, as well as mercenaries, Races will be included, expect more spells and heroes and items.
New siege tech-tree for raider
Better balancing for different number of players
A new Last Resort
More items and Recipes!

Alliance Tactical Stronghold is a game of strategy, as its name implies. Units are used widely in this game, but heroes play a part. Players (Player 1 - 8) build their bases, and train units to fend off the invading orcs (Player 9), and his assistant dark green (Player 11). Light Blue = Dalaran Ai, and Brown = Raider Ai, which can be activated or deactivated at the start of the game. (Ai currently disabled) Red is the King, and Blue is First Defender, and start with more units and structures than the other 6 players which are Generals. Playing the right strategy will affect the game. Raider has sub-classes, undead and demon, which will affect his tech-tree.

http://s1128.photobucket.com/albums/m498/RadiaNSh9t/DTS - Screenshots/Will be updated

Game is relatively simple. If you are 1 of the Alliance Defenders (Player 1 - 8), there are a few strategies.
Red: Having a king is a big advantage from his spells. His spells will help lots to bring victory or change the tide of a battle. Send your starting units to blue early, and support with strong units.
Blue: Being first defender is risky, but full of adventure! Having many starting units, and gold, start by building quality units and some clerics, move the units near your headquarters into position. Be sure to cover the 2 blind spots on the wall where Warmogs of the raider (siege ladder like), can unload units up.
General: Being a general, is slow at first, but grows to be a strong power if left alone for a while. Building farms first and sending your units to blue will help. Build units like archers to get some War Points for your structures. When you have a steady income, support one another and push the raider out!
Raider: You need to be quick, having starting units that are strong, take down blue's scout-post infront of the castle to blind them. Use any tactic necessary to get into the castle and over the walls. Try to sneak units past blue and wreck havoc on the unsuspecting generals, but avoid Red as he has towers. A fast and swift victory will be required, or doom could await if the generals get strong. Your food is limited by the number of defenders so choose Quality > Quantity, if u can afford it.

Normal Guide, Advanced Guide, Strategic Guide, Combat Guide

Normal Guide

Alliance: Start by building up to 20 farms, and make an Infantry Barracks, send your starting units to the main passageway at blue's base to help him out and score some kills. Build farms until you reach around 40% of your food cap used up, than start upgrading them slowly. Save some money to train some crossbows and request that blue trains some clerics to heal them, seeing that they require War Points. Get around 5 - 6 farms to farm 15 as soon as possible, to get a high income, before you go on to combat.

Raider: If Ai is enabled, follow his lead and take the fight to blue's base. There are hidden meanings in your starting units, so read the strategic guide to find out some of them. Train alot of ranged units and a few underlings to build up an early army, and aim the weaker Foot Soldiers of the alliance army to score some kills and get valuable War Points. Upgrade your tier and continue massing strong units, make good use of your hero to harass enemy heroes, or the game could turn ugly in time.


Combat Guide

Alliance: Training an army is an expensive and long process, so training the right units to suit your budget is important. Training higher quality units in a small group beats a mass of lower quality units, which will just be food to the raider. Units have ranks, which give them extra health, evasion, critical and damage, which is very valuable. A smart way would be to last hit with your valued units and heal them often, repeat for many different units and you'll find yourself with an elite army that can score you many kills.

Raider: Training an army is hard! If ai is enabled, you can use him to your advantage, read AI Guide for this. Training ranged units is not effective, as they are expensive, weak and paper. A well placed nuke from enemy spellcasters could have your ranged units dead in no time. Train a strong tanking army, before you move on to ranged. For advanced, read the Strategic Guide. Mounted units which have high movespeed, should go for the lower health ranged units of dalaran, which if massed is deadly, but can still be brought down one by one if a few units make it through.


Advanced Guide

Alliance: The raider gets both gold and war points from killing your units, so you must beware to not spam useless units. Make ranged units and position them on top of the walls, retreat them if the raider climbs up to attack, even if its still far. The top and left pathways across the moat, is important. Position stronger ranged units to attack the warmog and kill him within 4 seconds, as melee units below will only fall prey to the raider's ranged units. If the raider does an early rush, do not panic! Calmly retreat to the inner walls where blue's towers will take care of them.

Raider: Blue has strong starting towers, which have limited sight. Use your catapult to knock them down, while defending the catapults with ranged units as the catapults can be positioned in a way that they cannot be seen from above the walls. Wyvern positioning, helps too, as trees block ground unit sight, you can position your wyvern to give u valuable sight on the walls of the stronghold, where u can attack the archers who think they are hidden in fog! Warmogs make good siege ladders, so attack the sides of the stronghold with your stronger units to make them panic, and attack the main gate with your ranged, so while they are distracted you can slaughter their ranged units and pillage some farms.

Strategic Guide

Alliance: Starting units, play an important role. They defend, they protect you from wyverns, they kill. They can be your strongest asset early game if used right. Cavaliers are strong tank units, which if positioned in a line, would fend off any early raider attack that might come. Food cap for the raider is just as limited as yours, so persuade your allies to make lots and lots of quality units, keeping them out of view, and if the raider's army is defeated, attack his base! Destroy all his structures except his headquaters first, as there is still the Last Resort. After destroying his base, retreat most of your melee and some ranged units, and harass the raider's base. He will last resort, and after that, crush the summoned army when out of range of the aura, and defeat the raider.

Raider: The warmogs you start with help as siege ladders, which will destroy blue's archers and towers easily early game. The executors, can be loaded onto walls and run past them to crush the blue's farms and buildings, and if possible run loose into the generals' bases to cause some havoc, making them keep in their bases in fear, not being able to support blue, do not attempt red as he has a strong array of towers to keep any ground unit out. Wyverns. have very slow attack speed of cooldown 20 seconds, but an incredibly high damage. If you could hit-and-run the archers. towers, farms, buildings, the dalaran would be forced to position random archers all over the map depending how well you harass them. Wyverns have high regeneration so they can repeat the same thing over and over again, like an assassination.

Headquatersl : Red XIII
Orc Upgrade Center: Mephestrial
Fortress Model : Mr.Bob
Castle Model: Mr.Bob
War Points Icon: Elainiel
Dalaran Barracks: Skrab
Dalaran King: Tranquil
Dalaran Blacksmith: Lord_T
Dalaran King Icon: kola
King's Guard Model: HappyTauren
Sword Iconer: Elainiel
Crossbowman: HappyTauren
Longbow: Frankster
Shortbow: supertoinkz
Crossbowman Icon: SeW
Grunt: Tauer
DemonStronghold: Gottfrei
UndeadStronghold: HappyTauren
Raider Camp: Red XIII
Raider Barracks: Red XIII
Longbow Icon: Pike
Spear Throwerr: Radagast
Skirmisher: Frankster
Ghost Hunter: PaulH
Warmog: NightWolf
Wyvern: olofmoleman
Raider: Lord_T
Executor: frostwolf
Cavalier: wingednosering, Icon: Muoteck
Smasher: Wojia10502
Goblin's Reprive: Frankster
Howizon Tank: ikillforeyou
Mystic Knight: Model: Devine, Icon: Juan_Ann
Advanced Tower: Tranquil, Iconer: Unknown
Magonel: Deolrin
Trebuchet: olofmoleman
CatapultV2: Kitabatake
Forge: takakenji
Archery Range, Stables and Mages Guild: Mr.Bob
Bloodelfpheonix Archer and Crusader: Frankster
Arrow: Deorlin
Pikeman and Crusader: Elenai
SteelPledge: HappyTauren
Lightning Blade: Kola
Captain: HappyTauren
Hydrowave Trap: Vortigon