Go To Middle Hive!

MrPink

So many commanders make the mistake of building in the hive farthest away from the aliens. It is so much harder for the aliens if you build up the middle hive first, and if your quick enough, most of the time you will only see a gorge building a resource tower. By the time he alerts skulks and they actually get there, you should already have up a phase gate and a few turrets. The aliens will surely be at the middle hive first, so that is where you need to be as well. Also, it is easier to take the farthest away hive because the aliens have such a long walk to get there, and when they notice you've taken the middle hive, that is pretty much all they will attack.

Okabore

I have seen this been done on tanith and it totally disrupted the aliens. They had the hive to north-west (forgotten the name). We managed to get a gate, rt, tf and I think a couple of turrets up before the first couple of skulks ran into the fire of our guards.
In the end we couldn't hold it but retreated to the cargo bay where we set up siege. It was simpler to defend.
When we got to the other hive the aliens hadn't even got there and we got the whole thing running without any serious envolvment from the aliens.
Two things that made this much simpler was that we used gate to get every where. This elimnated much of the skulks ability to ambush.
The other thing we did was being _very_ aggressiv agains gorges. Everyone listened for the sounds of gorge (could be a good musical <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->) including the com. If the com heard any then he would order marines to search and destroy it.
To kill of a gorge realy hurts the alien. Especially in the begining were 14 rp make quite a differens

MonsieurEvil

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BlueGhost

Taking fusion on tanith is really the only way to play, its very easy to get a siege up and hold that siege (although in future i've gotta remember to put the TF out of view of the doors it didn't go down, but it was close <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

BlueGhost

RUAewok

well the reason commanders go to the farthest hive from the aliens is cause marine teams dont always listen. If your team listens you should go for the middle hive if it doesnt listen you should risk wasting all the resources just to lose them cause your team is lollygagging around.