General DiscussionTinker, March of the Machines positioning?

If you march facing the creep wave the range creep will take almost no damage.

I think the best position is diagonal.

If you face away from your opponent you almost gauruntee a little bit of harass on them. It's probably best to go 45° from facing your own tower in either direction because of this I think. You balance both worlds.

if you march diagonally all units take damage, if you march in the direction of the enemy movement only the units at the front of the charge take damage, anyone behind doesn't because each robot only deals damage once before vanishing after making contact with an enemy unit.

if you cast it 90 degrees to the creep wave (perpendicular), most of the robots will just hit nothing, and the closest melee creep will protect the other 3 melee creeps beside it from taking march damage.

important on the mid lane when you're punishing people if they go to last hit, and when pushing because just the direction of the march can determine whether you kill the creep wave with a single march or not

if you want the march robots to move as far as possible, you will need to cast forwards
an example of this is using march to stack radiant ancients
http://i.imgur.com/ed2WQxb.jpg

• green circle is 1200 units
• march cast range is 300
• robots start 900 units behind where you cast, and end up 900 units in front of where you cast

if you cast 300 units closer to the ancients i.e. facing the ancients like in the picture, the robots will end up 900 units in front of the cast point, which is 1200 units in front of you, and hit the ancients

if you cast march facing towards the mid lane, the robots will spawn 900 units behind your cast location, which is not enough to get them to spawn on top of the ancients and therefore won't damage them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsfjZ0K2G0 watch this.