Mar 23, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - The Lanna is focused on cutting the defense slack. You are the Osgiliath to your fellow defender’s Minas Tirith.  Floating around the middle of the map, she is focused on destroying incoming enemy assaults, providing the last hope for stopping a runaway flag, and creating a kind of buffer base between your opponent’s base and your...

Mar 19, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - Meet the Gadfly, so named because he’s primarily concerned with being the biggest nuisance imaginable – a real jackass actually. No one sees more rage quits then a successful Gadfly, testing the opponent’s defenses, getting cheap kills, and destroying as many special buildings as she can. The Gadfly will force your opponents into...

Mar 8, 2012

The Flashy Review is proud to present a brand new feature on the site: For the Swarm, a lower league Zerg player’s attempt to understand the various strategies of the game and fight his way up the ladder. There are a lot of similar features out there written by pros or those heavily invested in the game, but I am neither.  Instead, I am a casual silver...

Feb 29, 2012

- INTRODUCTION - I’m confident the strategies I’ll lay out here will help you, the lone player without need of team, dominate in Capture the Flag and other objective based games.  Most importantly, these tips will weather the current and future rounds of patches that are addressing some of the flagrant balance issues.  When the dust clears, these...

Jun 7, 2011

Let’s get one thing straight: peak combat effectiveness is achieved by pausing the action and issuing orders.  In Nightmare difficulty you’ll probably run into circumstances where micro-ing to victory is an inescapable reality.  But consistently embracing this model of play will force you to miss Dragon Age’s most unique feature: the tactics system...