Orcs

## **Introduction:**

> Welcome to the Introduction to the Orc race of Kingdom Wars 2 : Battles. Orcs are the most Aggressive race using cheap units early game to swarm their enemies. However, they are also one of the hardest to to maintain their ranks as many units must be built from pre-existing units of Laborers and Marauders while some units units must cycle through several buildings, increasing micro need. They also have a hard time making units they need because counter units are made across many building types.
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## Pros and cons

**The pros:**

- Cheap units and free units. Making it possible to rush and stay aggressive.

- They have some of the best late-game units.

-Can turn economic units into military units.

-Start off with an inner and outer wall, allowing them to safeguard their important buildings easily.

**The cons:**

- Cheap and free units are not always a good thing. They can die faster with a squad consisting of many units. Because of this, the enemy can get veterancy faster off orcs than other races.

- Don't have any infinite outside food. Even food takes population and requires the population to continue to gather food, making it a double-edged sword against their max army size. Once they choke. Usually means the end of the game. Usually, later in the game, they must leave the safety of their stronghold to gather resources. Thus making it easy to pick off their laborers, causing Orcs to choke.

## Units

Orcs are an interesting mix of "zerg" style units and higher cost units like ogres. All of the orc style units(i.e. not goblins or wargs) come from either a laborer or marauder unit, both of which spawn from the Great Hut. To create a slayer for example you would build a slayer hut then double right-click the laborer or marauder to the war hall. Then after a short time, a unit of slayers will emerge in place of the laborers/marauders. To create berserkers requires a tier 2 unit such as impalers or slayers to turn into berserkers. Ogres are built straight from an ogre pen. Cavalry units are created from their walking counterparts, the slayers or impalers. Once again select a unit of impalers/slayers then double right click on the warg pen. To create orc siege gear build the armory then send a unit of laborers or marauders into it, making sure you've researched the appropriate techs there to allow for each type of siege weapon you want to create. Goblins are spawned by building goblin tents and then setting the spawn to either raiders or prowlers or no spawn. The more goblin tents you have the faster the goblins spawn. On that idea, the more huts you have the more pop room you have and the faster your marauders or laborers spawn.

### Melee Units:

* Goblin Raider
* Slayer
* Impaler
* Berserker
* Ogre

Goblin RaiderSlayerImpalerBerserkerOgre
### Ranged Units:

* Goblin Prowler
* Marauder

Goblin ProwlerMarauder
### Cavalry Units:

* Beastriding Slayer
* Beastriding Impaler

Mounted SlayerMounted Impaler
### Siege Units:

* Grinder
* Tosser
* Siege Catapult
* Siege Ladder
* Siege Ram
* Siege Tower

TosserGrinderSiege LadderSiege TowerSiege RamSiege Catapult
### Misc Units:

* Laborer
* Warg

LaborerWarg
### Hero Units:

* Player
* Warlord
* Shaman

Player CharacterWarlordShaman
### Naval

* Rowboat
* Privateer
* Bireme

RowboatPrivateerBireme