Outrageous Gaming Tactics

[Grand_Poohbah]

While playing my friend in a game of Starcraft I decided to use a very strange strategy. Instead of building units to destroy him, I constructed 367 pylons (I was the Protoss). It was a huge wall of purple pylons. I was hoping my friend would surrender in despair of having to destroy that many buildings. Unfortunately he is stubborn as a mule. At the 25 minute mark in the game he discovered my wall (a third friend was playing and was knocked out around the 22 minute mark). It took him until the 1 hour mark to finish destroying my master piece.

What are some downright outrageous tactics you have used to attempt to get your friends to surrender, cry, or implode?

 

[quack35]

On Left 4 Dead. At the No Mercy finale my friends and I decided it was a good idea a to send one person up to answer the radio and the rest just wait at the bottom of the ladder.

It didn't work very well.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

In brawl I would just teleport around the map as meta knight, I would never get hit but i didn't deal all the much damage.

 

[Epifols]

In Deus Ex, when playing with no items/skills/augs/anything the weighted cubes become your best friends. (I'll just use the Portal terms)

Basically you use the metal boxes to trap a person, then you throw them on their head until they die. Usually this involves them having to go through all their ammo...

 

[Bobkat1252]

In halo I once drove a scorpion into and up the windmill on Last Resort so I could get a shot over the wall at the beach (the gate was sealed by objects). I did this over and over until I finally hit the stupid mongoose that was driving around out there.

 

[PuckFuppet]

C&C:3. won a tournament game by packing up my MCV at the start and redeploying it outside my enemies base then proceeded to build a ton of engineers and capture all of his buildings

I think he got about three Riflemen built but by that time my engineers had captured most of his base.

 

[Shadow Law]

While playing halo wars 3 vs 3 all three of us had commander cutter who can get the ODST upgrade. we all build up tanks and hornets and send a fairly large wave at the opposing team, while they think they can take on the tanks we drop every last ODST right at their base. In case you don't know each player gets 9 drops with 5 units in each drop so do the math and it comes out to be 135 more units they have to start worrying about very quickly.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I do remember one of my mates making 'the invincible army of conscripts' in Red Alert 2... as well as my Tanya which killed every single one. That'll show him.

In starcraft one of my cousins would constantly send 'variety buckets' featuring as many different unit types as he could possibly think of. Whilst not dangerous, the fact we kept on laughing over the KFC reference made it somewhat hard to concentrate...

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

In brawl I would just teleport around the map as meta knight, I would never get hit but i didn't deal all the much damage.

As Samus, I would drop bombs everywhere.

 

[Woe Is You]

A fun way to play Warcraft 3 is to thoroughly abuse the capability for night elves to uproot their buildings and use those to attack the other player. Nothing quite like having your whole base and an army of 100 ancients knocking on the enemy's door.

There's a hero amongst them spamming starfall, of course.

 

[Good morning blues]

I have only ever played one multiplayer game of Homeworld 2 in my life, against two of my friends on LAN. One of them sent an attack at me, but I dispatched it pretty easily and sent my entire fleet toward his base and destroyed almost every ship he had. Three of his ships managed to get away without me noticing, but none of them were capable of producing new units or harvesting resources. He didn't want to lose to me, since I was so new to the game, so he decided to simply hide at the top of the map (which is 3-dimensional in Homeworld) until the other guy inevitably destroyed me. The other guy ended up winning, but not before I found those three ships. I thought it was a pretty bizarre and boring strategy.

 

[Trivun]

In Dawn of War: Soulstorm, I always use one of two strategies on Kasyr Lutien when online. First is Eldar, I simply build up a small base quickly and a second one in the safety of my allies bases as backup, then use the Webway Relocate ability to move my small base and troops closer to the enemy, but in a corner where no-one goes. Then I teleport my Bonesingers behind the enemy lines and build a Webway Gate there, so I can attcak from behind (right on the very edge of the map) while my allies attack from the front in a pincer movement. The other strategy is when playing as Imperial Guard. I simply build several bases all over the map (linked by the tunnels between Imperial Barracks), and so my troops can pop up from anywhere. Couple that with the Imperial Guard tenacity when holding the line and it makes for a very tough defense to counter... ;D

 

[Neverhoodian]

I tend to build sentry guns in weird places when playing Team Fortress 2, banking that the other team won't bother checking there. One time I built an entire base (sentry, dispenser, and working teleporter exit) at Red team's right spawn exit on Gravelpit. They were so busy defending point B that they didn't even notice until I had upgraded everything. After some of my teammates teleported in and began spawn camping, they finally figured it out. Eventually an ubered Pyro came out of spawn and destroyed my stuff, but the distraction was enough for us to capture B.

I also like ninja capping points as a Spy. Just yesterday I was on a team that couldn't get to the last point on Dustbowl. The enemy team had practically pushed us back to our spawn, so I switched to Spy and ninja capped the point. The server had alltalk enabled; consternation ensued on Red team's line.

 

[Zersy]

What are some downright outrageous tactics you have used to attempt to get your friends to surrender, cry, or implode?

COD4 Sabotage

"Yo lewi i'll get the bomb while you cover me"

Died as soon as i got with 4 meters of the Bomb

"Okay lewi lets try the old fashion way"

(Run after bomb, move it a little,die and repeat)

Worked like charm

 

[Muphin_Mann]

Halo 3. Being chased by a guy kitted out for short range damage. Drop a bubble shield and run foreward ot throw a grenade(spike) on the wall ahead of me a bit above head level. I turn around and the guy charges through the bubble at me. Grenade goes off and the needles fly over head head, rebound off the shield, and hit him in the back, killing him. And he thought i had just panicked and clicked the grenade button.

I was playing Disgaea on the DS against my more experianced buddy. Too bad for him i had made my leader a galactic demon kitted out with an amulet (the weakest defensive item) that i had leveled to 100, along with the best HP-buffing items in the game. And i had reincanated it at massive mana cost into a much better form that i had only killed one of before (the cost decreased exponentialy as you kill more up to 1/100 the base when you kill 30) Its so rewarding when someone 20 levels higher than you does 0 damage as your tank slowly whittles them down 50-100 hitpoints a turn.

 

[Clashero]

In GW I'd just run around with speed and defensive buffs and draw aggro to myself while my team killed the monsters. It was hilarious.

 

[IsoNeko]

While playing halo wars 3 vs 3 all three of us had commander cutter who can get the ODST upgrade. we all build up tanks and hornets and send a fairly large wave at the opposing team, while they think they can take on the tanks we drop every last ODST right at their base. In case you don't know each player gets 9 drops with 5 units in each drop so do the math and it comes out to be 135 more units they have to start worrying about very quickly.

If your playing as either Regret, Cutter, Brute Chieftan, or Forge. Just use the leader ability and *Poof* All gone.

 

[Marked of Kane]

C&C 3: Selling your Construction Yard to get a few extra credits for your Tank rush. Pretty much all or nothing, though there are crazier strats.

 

[jimduckie]

anyone that plays cod 4 just to camp that is a bad tactic

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Bunny Hopping T_T