Few days before, my friend introduces an online web-based game for me. The game named "Three Kingdom Online" (热血三国 <-- Click it!). This game is great but it gives me a lot of sadness. There is a special feature on this website game in which I can give commands to my army during a battle. I can control them to move forward, stop, or move backward and attack which troop on a battlefield. The ability of controlling army greatly influence the battle result. I may win a battle without losing a unit. If I forget to control my army, they may stupidly go to die. This is a headache that I always miss the chance to give command for my army. Why? Because when I want to attack a land, it needs time for my army to move from my city to the battle destination. If the travel time is too long, I will go to do other thing to wait for the battle begins. Sometimes, I may totally forget the battle and the whole troop heroically die on the battlefield.
Training a unit spends much time and resources. For my city, training 100 archers needs more than 6 hours, training 50 light horse rider needs more than 4 hours. But I can get a lot of units very quickly since I have 5 barracks in my city. Thus, I can have 500 archers and 200 light horse rider after 10 hours something. According to this training speed, I should have a great amount of units in my city. But, there are a lot of funny cases causing the number of my army unable to reach higher. Those sad cases are unforgettable in my heart.
I brought my army to commit many wonderful wars. Thanks to myself as a genius commander, my army was able to eliminate all of the enemy troops on the battlefield without losing a unit. Archers made a great effort in battle because they were the only ranged attackers in the early game and had the benefit of long attack range. They could attack enemies in a long distance and prevent the enemies from going near my troop. However, the good matter never last long. I still remember the amount of loss in my army. I lost 900 archers, 200 light horse riders, 120 shield carriers and 89 spear soldiers on my first defeat. Why I lost? Because after I sent out my troop to fight, I did my Final Year Project (FYP) while waiting for the battle. I was attracted on solving a problem in my game programming work and absolutely ignore the battle without intention. After I solved the problem, I felt the bad thing and then I suddenly remember the battle. My concern was too late. The battle ended when I wanted to control my army. Then, I opened the report box to see the result. What a "good" news for me that all of my army was wiped out. Nothing could be done after the fact happened. The only one thing I could do was training my army for several hours again.
The second case was damn funny. I played with full of braveness to challenge a high-level land. I brought 1600 archers, 400 light horse riders and 200 shield carriers to conquer the land. In my impression, the defender approximately had 5000 basic soldiers, 600 spear soldiers and 370 shield carriers. I was very scared of those melee enemy units which are able to go near my archer team. The life of an archer was as low as an ant, he was so easy to get killed by the enemies. In strategically, I should attack the enemy units with highest movement speed in the first and kill them in efficient way such as dealing a good damage according to their weakness. But I made a "clever" decision to kill the hardest enemy units in priority, that was attacking the shield carriers although I knew that the attack damage for an archer against a shield carrier was only 70%. Finally, I eliminates all of the shield carriers in 3 rounds. But the scary thing happened, the 5000 basic soldiers and 600 spear soldiers was already standing very near with my troops. They just simply wipe out my whole army in one round by dealing a huge amount of damage. I lost in this battle due to my stupid mistake.
The third case was the greatest loss and I had nothing to say with this. The war happened in my own town. A strong player came to bully my army while I was playing DotA. After that, I saw the army status tab was blinking. It gave me a bad feeling, what would the matter be? I saw the winning of the attacker in a battle but lost 100 something light horse riders, I thought that the attacker was me and my army went to die stupidly again without my control. But the problem was, I remembered that I did not send my troop out for battle before I played DotA. Then, I read the report carefully. Damn it! The attacker was not me, it was another player. It meant the losing defender was me. My pitying 1900 archers, 73 light horse riders and 357 shield carriers were gone in this war. I thought that I sent my troop to conquer a land and I forgot to recall them back to home after winning the battle. I left them to stay outside and they were killed by others. But when I looked at the battle location carefully, it was my town location! The wall around my town was hard and there was a lot of arrow turrets and traps in surrounding to prevent them from entering my town. I wondered that why my turrets and traps did not work. The attackers could be easy to go into my town and kill my people. After I continued reading the battle report, Oh My God, it mentioned that my stupid army went out from the protection of my town and fight with the attackers at outside instead of staying inside to defend behind the wall. After I told my friends about my army's funny action, he said that it was necessary to set the defense type at somewhere in order to make the army staying inside to defend. I had nothing to say with this. I made my town defense to be so great, but it was useless, my army was damn smart to fight with enemies at outside and got rid of the protection of my town. They liked to commit suicide when I did not pay attention on a battle. I really did not know I should laugh or cry. Because of this defeat, I lost a great amount of army again.
After I successfully trained a lot of army, they died. I trained again, they died again. I was unable to gather my army step by step in order to make a huge army. Some bad matters must be happened to me when I had a good number of army. It was so bored with this cycle.
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