Newcomer looking for tips

Games Halo Wars Series
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Hi, everyone.

I just moved from Halo 5 to Halo Wars 2 since i’m more a RTS guy than a FPS guy… This game looks amazing, just bought it yesterday and i’m really excited about it. I installed it during the night so today will be my first play. I’ve been Reading in the internet about some initial stuff of the game, read the wiki and some other pieces of information.

I’d like to know from the experienced players: how should i start? I’m planning in playing the campaign first then moving to off-line skirmish matches then multiplayer. I read that there are like 2 ‘factions’: UNSC and Banished. I would like to know with which one should i start and which leader should i go, considering that i’m a newbie and i need something easy to learn. Any links and topics are welcome for me to learn.

This is like a ‘Welcome post’ to all the HW2 community. Been Reading the fórum and found some good information but i just don’t know how to start and the basics. Just wanted some guidelines from you, guys.

Thanks in advance,

Kyltz.

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Play campaign on heroic til u beat it. Then again on legendary. Then play legendary ai’s in custom games then go to unranked multiplayer. Id start out as either forge or atriox both are pretty easy leader to use and have a lot of room for improvement with skill
Edit: oh amd welcome to the game

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banished are probably more forgiving for newcomers because their bases get shields and cloaks, easier to defend rushes

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Don’t touch campaign, just play multiplayer and disregard the opinions of 95% of the people on these forums and you should be well on your way.

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learn build orders and unit strengths. micro and macro, stuff like that

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Play multiplayer and heroic skirmish against IA. You will lose a lot of battles, but it is the only way my little friend.

“Victorious warrior win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

-Sun tzu

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Play campaign, then do skirmishing, then multiplayer VS AI, then standard unranked multiplayer. Also, Blitz isn’t a terrible game type, very fun and a good time killer. If you have any specific questions go ahead and ask as I am always happy to help. Also, you’ll see lots of stuff on the forums about nerfing and OP stuff, don’t let those get to your head.

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> learn build orders and unit strengths. micro and macro, stuff like that

This. Except if you’re like me, don’t worry too much about build orders and macro until you’re playing lots of standard multiplayer.

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Before you jump into multiplayer. grab a buddy and start playing around with units.
go over every unit, what they do, the cost of that unit and what that unit kills.
doing this will give you an edge over the next guy.
after doing that you should be able to tell me things like
build cyclops only vs marines
or
snipers take x amount of shots to kill a marine.
Or how much a tank cost etc.
After you do that just play multiplayer.
You don’t have to do campaign or play vs the ai because that wont teach you anything even if its on legendary.

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That’s great. Thank you all for the amazing answers… Gonna follow must of your tips and try to enjoy the game as max as possible.

Kyltz.