Another Take On Mines
severijn
Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11049Members
Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11049Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Time for some fun...</div> You guys are propably gonna say I'm crazy, but...who knows.
Today I've played a game and the comm was spamming with mines at our base.
As normal, we placed the mines all over the place, but he spammed too much so I was going with my team with an LMG and a bunch of mines. Now, this is what I did. We located a potential target to destroy. Their seconds RT. I was given the order to knife it while my friends guarded me. But it wasn't truly save, so I placed my mines on the RT. What happened? the alien skulks came and charged us, but they got destroyed by my mines beacause they wanted me first! Next, they retreated.
Another time not so much later that game I got more mines and this time, I was alone. Alll my friends were fighting in a certain corridor. I rushed to them and asked if they wanted to cover me. They all had like 10% ammo left in their rifle but they guarded me. Next, I placed the mines on the wall and the ground and on the ceiling. The skulks had to retreat again cause they couldn't get near us. We killed their attacking party with no casualties on our site. This also made a nice roadblock.
Maybe this might get handy for all of you.
Today I've played a game and the comm was spamming with mines at our base.
As normal, we placed the mines all over the place, but he spammed too much so I was going with my team with an LMG and a bunch of mines. Now, this is what I did. We located a potential target to destroy. Their seconds RT. I was given the order to knife it while my friends guarded me. But it wasn't truly save, so I placed my mines on the RT. What happened? the alien skulks came and charged us, but they got destroyed by my mines beacause they wanted me first! Next, they retreated.
Another time not so much later that game I got more mines and this time, I was alone. Alll my friends were fighting in a certain corridor. I rushed to them and asked if they wanted to cover me. They all had like 10% ammo left in their rifle but they guarded me. Next, I placed the mines on the wall and the ground and on the ceiling. The skulks had to retreat again cause they couldn't get near us. We killed their attacking party with no casualties on our site. This also made a nice roadblock.
Maybe this might get handy for all of you.
Comments
You are building that TF that is going to build a Siege to kill that hive. Instead of using sentrys, you just toss some mines and tell the marines do use it to protect the TF. So the TF is protected and the team have some time to finish that siege without being atacked.
Also you can use it to protect your troops when they are atacking a hive with hmg or lmg. In eclipse, for example, you can send the marines to the main hive and tell them to block the upper entrance of the hive with mines and shoot it from behind the mines.
The enemies that try to reach the marines get blow in the mines. Of course you should never use mines when the enemies have fades.
Actually I'm not very sure about it, but still are these things usefull in the offense, for a wall that can't be penetrated by skulks. The very fun part of mining enemy RT while knifing is that they don't expect it. God, those aliens were **** on me.
how do you damage a structure with a mine when they dont detonate on structures?
Night crawler.. ur wrong.. mines do next to nothing against structures.. hince why clans sometimes put mines by all structures.
As a person who usually plays alien I love it when marines load up on mines. As soon as you get Fades you win, the marines get wiped out by their own explosives.
Also, take ns_nancy, the aliens have unnamed hive.
3 people go into the red tunnel thing that accesses the hive room. Mine up the enterance with laser mines, and mine corridor with floor mines. Get the comm to drop you an armory, keep spamming mines every time they get blown up, and keep shooting the hive. This is a tactic to be done right when the game starts, so no lerks or nething. It works wonders, trust me(only on pubs)
They ARE handy for when you're knifing res towers, or holding a forward position n stuff.. done the res tower thing a couple of times myself <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
if you reall want to strike fear in to the alien's hearts, you send 3 guys, 2 with mines to a alien hive, for example. mainteance. place the mines all aroudn the doors, stand back and shoot it.
if your lucky and one of you has a hmg, its even better!
mines are also fking cool , if they have 1 hive, and you want to siege the 2nd one thats goingup. Use mines around the TF. Its hard to pass it out, because some people can be stupid and just place it randomly on the walls. even when you tell them to go to the hive and place it..
-roachems[AR]
I still can't figure out just how people can claim they are -that- useful...
aliens had vent. we took generator.
At the start of the game we all loved mines. mines everywhere!!! mines all around the base, hives, and for every rt. mines mines mines!! All the structures that had no mines were wiped out, but all the structures with a good minefield around them were safe and happy.
we decided to go for HA. even tho it was expensive, there would be a nice payoff. aliens took sewer. so the team got suited up. 5 Heavy Armor Suits, hmgs and nade launchers and welders. the HA's gathered around the armory to gather ammo for the attack. We would win. We were determined to win.
We didnt know any better.
Enter the Fades.
Along comes a fade to base. The first thing he does is shoot an acid rocket into the base. just 1 acid rocket. cant do much harm to our large group. but then that acid rocket hit some mines. which, exploded, which caused others to explode, which eventually caused all the mines in base to blow apart in one of the most violent chain reactions ive ever seen.
all our HA's were now scattered and sprawled around the armory. the whole base was a crater. within the next minute the fades came in wiped everything out, and we lost the game.
just because of 1 acid rocket, and a passion for mines.
I still can't figure out just how people can claim they are -that- useful... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
they don't need to kill the enemy to be useful, its the fact you can almost completely block enterences to choke points with mines until there is a kamikazi of some sort or an injection of fade/gorge power.
like i said, i put mines around corners on random parts of the map and because skulks tend to be listening and looking out for marines not always cautious about mines at the top of a random ladder somewhere they are prey and it slows them down/helps a lot i find, but i am not a mine fan in general.
Yes gorges can blow up mines and its not map specific, just aim slighlty away form the mines resting place and itll blow.
For example, if the map was ns_nancy (aliens have Subspace). We would build IPs in base, rush messhall, build an armory there, drop some mines around armory, then drop more mines to take to mother interface (outside of subspace) mine it up and aliens are screwed. While doing this I have a few marines go around the map capping res nodes and voila! we almost have every res node on the map. Oftentimes when I do this I get called a lame comm and get bitched at by the aliens. It is hard to defend against I have to admit and it is very frusturating to play against.
If your are one of those people who claim to never die to mines and think the mines are useless, you have never experienced the true power of the mine spam. You CANNOT efficiently kill marines when mines litter the floor of the room, its just impossible.
For example, if the map was ns_nancy (aliens have Subspace). We would build IPs in base, rush messhall, build an armory there, drop some mines around armory, then drop more mines to take to mother interface (outside of subspace) mine it up and aliens are screwed. While doing this I have a few marines go around the map capping res nodes and voila! we almost have every res node on the map. Oftentimes when I do this I get called a lame comm and get bitched at by the aliens. It is hard to defend against I have to admit and it is very frusturating to play against.
If your are one of those people who claim to never die to mines and think the mines are useless, you have never experienced the true power of the mine spam. You CANNOT efficiently kill marines when mines litter the floor of the room, its just impossible. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hmm, maybe it is called a lame tactic, because aliens dont have any changes, when you mine spam their starting hive in the early game.
I mean, why see all that trouble, when you can just relocate in the mother interface and siege the sub down...GG, or then do a tech rush. One skilled jp/hmg marine in the sub and game over. <--- Those are lame tactics and that mine rush of yours can be compared to them.