Outrageous Gaming Tactics

[Compatriot Block]

A while back I was playing Lord of The Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II with my buddy, and for once actually trying (sort of). Anyways, he sends his whole army at my base, and I wipe it out completely.

I decided to screw with him, so I sent ONE weak little unit over to his base and attacked his only barracks. Luckily, he was broke at the time, so he had to sit there and watch as my unit killed all his workers and his barracks. Took like 30 minutes to entirely destroy the base, and he was stuck watching.

Pissing friends off: Priceless.

 

[Valiance]

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

Speaking of Starcraft...

A while ago, I was in a 1v1 with a friend of mine, both of us were Protoss and I noticed him starting to go what looked like Carriers...So I made one stargate, made one carrier, and used about 6 templar to Hallucinate it, all of them twice.

I flew over his base with 13 carriers when he had 2. He instantly left the game and complained to me later about him not wanting to wait for me to destroy his stuff...

Shit was so funny. When I explained to him what I did, we both got a huge laugh about it and now we do it in online games for shits and giggles.

~

Also, since I have terribly bad macro these days, I went on SC and was doing a terran vs terran that was pretty even except I had about 1300 minerals that I wasn't using, so I made 6 barracks in the middle of the map...and flew them all into my opponents base, and his turrets managed to take down ZERO of them..I landed them all and started making marines in his base...he was forced to take his entire force back to his main, I killed 3 of his expos, and then he left before he got all of my barracks down...

^^;

 

[sms_117b]

I've turtled until they've run out of resources. Whilst keeping a good defensive formation and losing minimal units whilst they lost wave after wave, the other advantage was my units leveling up. I can't remember the game

Knowing my opponents defense and that it was very much dependent on power, i built about 40 high energy consuming buildings with no attack and gave them to him effectively neutralising his defense as it couldn't fire. A total Annihilation mod

I used the my microphone and text on screen to intimidate, infuriate, coarse and bribe into attacking me, my well prepared ally, my opponents ally, before my opponents ready, or any other advantageous situation. Any RTS

Age of Empires, pretty basic, I built many many archery ranges, about 40, and got my population to 1 under the limit, killed of the villagers, did the same again, then built a chariot archer from each one, giving me close to 90 chariot archers, this was pre-patch and on a multiplayer demo at school.

What else, I've done my fair share of underhanded and boarder line cheating with tactics, I did shine on the beta of a yet unreleased and then unnamed game, t'was very good and realistic

 

[ItsAPaul]

Using throws in every fighter ever. Repeatedly. Apparently knowing two buttons (or having the pair handed to you on one of the L or R buttons in Soul Calibur) wins a lot of games.

 

[RavingPenguin]

I beat a skirmish against the computer in the Halo Wars demo using nothing but elephants. I took a while though.

 

[Stryc9]

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.

That's not actually that outrageous, that's RECOMMENDED on the bonus DVD in the Kane Edition, with step by step instructions. I even had a guy try that online only he waited until he had half a base built before he packed up and moved so when his MCV came rolling in it got ripped to shreds by my turrets followed shortly after by my Scorpions leveling his pretty base.

The thing that pissed me off the most was when my friend went and looked up a bunch of Red Alert 2 exploits, one of which involves getting a spy to enter your own Tech Lab to unlock the special unit. I was playing with him and his wife over VPN in a free for all so I wasn't there to see what was going on and I thought they and ganged up on me. A few days later I was over at his house hanging out when the subject came up and they both denied it and I kept pressing then he told me what he'd done. Even his wife was flipping him shit for looking that crap up online.

 

[Alex_P]

I was rather fond of Dispenser mining in Team Fortress Classic. The Dispenser can be detonated remotely and has a pretty powerful explosion. It's also very easy to control it remotely. When someone would get past my sentry gun and go for the flag room, I'd usually be building a Dispenser to catch him on the way out. I barely ever used it for its intended purpose.

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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.

It's more fun when you just squish them with a Chrono Miner.

-- Alex

 

[Mikaze]

This happened to one of my friends. He was playing Starcraft with someone completely new to the game and he was one of those people who just asks what's good instead of finding out and he was told Siege Tanks were good. He took it a little too seriously, he maxed out his popcap with siege tanks and set them all up to cover one of the two entrances to his base. Not even an ultralisk rush got through.