I was playing Stronghold maybe a year ago, I was playing my friend via LAN. He had this awesome castle, that seemed almost impentrable. But part of his moat was open, so I distracted all his units with a lone knight, he followed it with almost half his army. I sneaked like 30 assassins in the back of his base, waited till he had turned his volume off, which ment he didn't want me to hear something he was doing. Then I killed his king, and won. It was funny.
strangest RTS tactics
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How could I forget: Scouting with Terran buildings.
Professional Starcraft Terran players often build an Engineering Bay, lift it off, and hover it to the enemy's base. They make pretty good early scouts since they can hover and have a ton of HP. EBays are also often unnecessary in the early game, so it's OK if you lose it. You can get a good few minutes of solid scouting done with one Ebay at a critical time, and retreat it before it dies (and repair it for another run).
Professional Starcraft Terran players often build an Engineering Bay, lift it off, and hover it to the enemy's base. They make pretty good early scouts since they can hover and have a ton of HP. EBays are also often unnecessary in the early game, so it's OK if you lose it. You can get a good few minutes of solid scouting done with one Ebay at a critical time, and retreat it before it dies (and repair it for another run).
Company of heroes, opposing fronts.
Using the 'scorched earth tactic' with the panzer Elite and disabling all the stategic points directly next to a American base, so he can't expand at all.
Another: As aformentioned, but using british commandos to booby-trap
Bridges
Buildings
Road Junctions
Wrecks
Your own trenches
Trees
Own buildings.
In conjunction:
randomly firing artillery into random enemy map areas
Destroying every house in Lyon map with creeping barrage.
Using the 'scorched earth tactic' with the panzer Elite and disabling all the stategic points directly next to a American base, so he can't expand at all.
Another: As aformentioned, but using british commandos to booby-trap
Bridges
Buildings
Road Junctions
Wrecks
Your own trenches
Trees
Own buildings.
In conjunction:
randomly firing artillery into random enemy map areas
Destroying every house in Lyon map with creeping barrage.
On Command and Conquer:Generals Zero Hour I will make the merc that shoots guys out of vehicles and some rebels and stick them in a truck. I then find a hole in thier defenses while I get a giant mob to distract them. Go in and find thier construction Dozer. I get my merc to snipe out the driver and get one of my rebels to take the wheel. I then drive for my life because by then they have caught on, but if I'm lucky I get away. I then build a replica of thier base beside mine and destroy them with thier own super weapon. And as I laugh my opponent cries in disbilief.
Aww. Meshakhad beat me to Petard spamming. Other than that I sometimes like to rush the enemy comander in Supreme Commander with my commander.
I remember once messing about on single player skirmishes on C&C Zero Hour
Making loads of demo trucks and sending them to an enemy base, except they had to pass through a tight gap that only one truck can go through at a time, so the first one gets to the enemy base and explodes blowing up a huge line of them all the way to my base where there's about 5 that have just be built but not ordered to do anything.
Those trucks were really effective...
Making loads of demo trucks and sending them to an enemy base, except they had to pass through a tight gap that only one truck can go through at a time, so the first one gets to the enemy base and explodes blowing up a huge line of them all the way to my base where there's about 5 that have just be built but not ordered to do anything.
Those trucks were really effective...
I love doing that, especially since the SCUD Storm is a rather unreliable superweapon on its own (can't target all the random missiles).NickyT said:
In Axis and Allies (yes, someone actually DID play that game) I always liked to play as Montgomery and entrench a bunch of Heavy Infantry around my base, backed up with enough defenses that I couldn't be hurt. Then I'd build a bunch of airfields, and send 8-12 air strikes on the enemy base while throwing carpet bombs at it. After their base was in ruins, I'd send all my Heavy Infantry in and use fighting spirit to obliterate them.
Edit: Hey blizzardwolf, massive props for that. I applaud the sheer immensity of your balls.
In Rome Total War I used to build up and develop a spy and assassin with some awesome subterfuge stats and use them in tandem. I'd infiltrate an major city with my spy, which allowed my assassin higher percentages of success in sabotage and assassination. Before my army even approached Rome, I'd destroyed the high-tier barracks, temples, and other assortments of structures in Capua and Tarentum. I steamrolled through southern Italy as the Carthaginians and slowly dissolved Rome into my empire through a long, long siege. By the time I was done with the Romans I had a domain that extended over North Africa, the mediterranean islands, and the Italian Peninsula. I employed the same tactic with the Greeks and Seleucids, who similarly could not reinforce their armies due to my sabotage method.
Well I was pretty sure I was gonna bite soon anyways, so this was one of those "Well... shit, I'm just desperate enough." moves.BlackOps said:
Damn I loved that game, awesome strategy there :-DProtagonist said:
In an older game, Dungeon Keeper, on the very last level one of my enemies had some level 10 vampires that repeatedly teleported into my dungeon... and for some reason they always teleported to the same location. So I built a prison there... two of them teleported right into the prison and were stuck there until I converted them in the torture chamber. I figured it was a bug, but I was a kid without a sense of honour.
I loved RA2. My tactic was the French in "Bay of Pigs". All i did was make my base deffensive with the grand cannon (BTW its a 3 vs 3 match). My allies would take the grunt of the enemy, while i build a Harrier Fleet. Then its just take out the enemies superweapons when they build them, and key buildings they need.OneHP said:
StarCraft: Terran Mission 9.
It's the RTS standard of defending an area for 30 minutes, and there are extreme Zerg rushes at 10 and 5 minutes before the end. However, somebody told me that with proper forward planning you could hold the base, get all the upgrades and build a massive invasion force in under 18 minutes. You then sent every single one of them off to the Zerg base, and promptly levelled it. Consequently, you could just amble back to your base and hang around for the end of the clock. Totally inappropriate for the mission but satisfying as hell.
It did get a bit strange however that the mission ends with being overrun by Zerg, when you've spent all your time committing genocide on them. THEY JUST COME OUT NOWHERE!
It's the RTS standard of defending an area for 30 minutes, and there are extreme Zerg rushes at 10 and 5 minutes before the end. However, somebody told me that with proper forward planning you could hold the base, get all the upgrades and build a massive invasion force in under 18 minutes. You then sent every single one of them off to the Zerg base, and promptly levelled it. Consequently, you could just amble back to your base and hang around for the end of the clock. Totally inappropriate for the mission but satisfying as hell.
It did get a bit strange however that the mission ends with being overrun by Zerg, when you've spent all your time committing genocide on them. THEY JUST COME OUT NOWHERE!
That was pretty much the necron strategy pre-1.2. Doesn't work so well any more.Almightyjoe said:
Also, for shits & giggles, if a necron player has been making a nice field-o-corpses, send a builder over to it and cover it in minefields. Necron Lord polls up, raises his army, and BOOM!
In original DoW, my RTS-maniac mate had a 3 vs 3 on Kasur Lutien. Unfortunately the dumb bastard he is, he forgot to turn team change off and the skirmish soon changed to a 5 vs 1 with everybody against him.
Since he was playing Eldars, he built about 30 webways and layed out at least 4 bases.And surprisingly enough, using relocate and hit&run tactics he managed to win.
As for my own tactics: Back in DoW, there wasn't an Eldar Support Platform limit so I used to build 20 of them D-cannons and rush the enemy base.They crushed buildings within seconds while I flanked the base with my infantry.
The Strangest Tactic: Eldar again(as the most tactical DoW race). We once had an Eldar player requesting resources and ,once he got 5k from every one of us(It's was an 4vs4 on that round map), he built 20 Bonesingers and begun to fill the Relic(in the center) with turrets and web ways.I doubt ANYTHING could get past that defence.
It's a shame that the game only lasted about 5 minutes before host disconnected us.
Since he was playing Eldars, he built about 30 webways and layed out at least 4 bases.And surprisingly enough, using relocate and hit&run tactics he managed to win.
As for my own tactics: Back in DoW, there wasn't an Eldar Support Platform limit so I used to build 20 of them D-cannons and rush the enemy base.They crushed buildings within seconds while I flanked the base with my infantry.
The Strangest Tactic: Eldar again(as the most tactical DoW race). We once had an Eldar player requesting resources and ,once he got 5k from every one of us(It's was an 4vs4 on that round map), he built 20 Bonesingers and begun to fill the Relic(in the center) with turrets and web ways.I doubt ANYTHING could get past that defence.
It's a shame that the game only lasted about 5 minutes before host disconnected us.
would you be so kind as to read the bit again where i said that i laid MINES (throughout the entire map) and build ANTI TANK CANNONS? trust me, he eventually defeated me (with 4 tanks), but not before suiciding plenty of units into the minefields outside my base.wilsonscrazybed said: