all this talk of shades is idiotic to me.
Get a teleport staff on ur dk and run around coiling wisps while you creep with lich.
You dont even have to be creeping, just send dk on a little adventure...
shades are a totall waste of time and wood. if you really make shades you cant be higher than lvl 10.
shades just dont fit into any real kind of build order. that fact is proven by philbot,fury,madfrog, ect...
What dosent make sense to me is this, if you scout an expo by ne and you know he's gonna tp and fight for it... why not attack him in the first place????!?

Heres a gosu strat for u.
Tower up your base and mass shades k? now creep a goblin creep but thats it! dont want your hero to lvl up too much you know.
Now every time you see an expo go up, send out a few snappers to take it out k?
NE will be so angry of your "maphack" that he will just leave.
GFG