Creative Tactics
Bleh
Join Date: 2003-02-09 Member: 13305Members
Join Date: 2003-02-09 Member: 13305Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Thinking outside the box</div> I just had to share this one little tidbit. Earlier in the evening, I was commanding a game where we hit a stalemate at a one hive lockdown and 3 resources held (on eclipse). We had full upgrades but I was lacking the resources to hand out every an HA and weapon (only doing so slowly over time until most or all the team was equipped) and started to get frustrated we couldn't even make a push for one hive even as a group. I told the marines just to hold the resource nodes we had until rest of team could get equipped.
While that was going on, I had one marine whole time during the game trying to sneak in the hive so I could drop a phase gate on 'em and we could do a surprise attack on the hive. I called him my "ninja". Anyway, so this one marine is trying to avoid any contact with aliens in attempts to sneak himself into the hive so I could drop him a phase gate when the coast is clear. On one of his attempts, he did manage to get into maintainence hive and drop down below one of bridges on south (loop) side. So I told him to stay there and make sure it was clear. Then this skulk spawns in, but unforunately, I already dropped one health pack on the marine so he heard that but not where exactly.
Now this skulk is slowing walking around, trying to figure out where that sound came from. So, out of pur of the moment, I dropped like another med pack near the skulk (his circle was showing up on the screen so I was keeping track of 'em). Then, I started to make a wide trail of health slowly leading away from the hive and the skulk was actually FOLLOWING my trail of medpacks. Maybe he had hopes that my meds would give away the position of the marine but I kept I dropping them real fast in a line towards south loop and comp core until he quit following at computer core. It was like dropping food on the ground and watching an animal keep moving to grab each piece. Towards end of trail, I had dropped a PG at my ninja, gave my team instructions to immediately get ready to phase into the hive with full ammo, and managed to get the hive down. We won after that eventually with HA/Shotguns moving to finish the CC hive. But I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that worked, I never would of thought of doing that in any other case, it just happened & luckily worked.
Just had to share that piece, I enjoy people introducing new tactics that aren't so straight-forward but work.
While that was going on, I had one marine whole time during the game trying to sneak in the hive so I could drop a phase gate on 'em and we could do a surprise attack on the hive. I called him my "ninja". Anyway, so this one marine is trying to avoid any contact with aliens in attempts to sneak himself into the hive so I could drop him a phase gate when the coast is clear. On one of his attempts, he did manage to get into maintainence hive and drop down below one of bridges on south (loop) side. So I told him to stay there and make sure it was clear. Then this skulk spawns in, but unforunately, I already dropped one health pack on the marine so he heard that but not where exactly.
Now this skulk is slowing walking around, trying to figure out where that sound came from. So, out of pur of the moment, I dropped like another med pack near the skulk (his circle was showing up on the screen so I was keeping track of 'em). Then, I started to make a wide trail of health slowly leading away from the hive and the skulk was actually FOLLOWING my trail of medpacks. Maybe he had hopes that my meds would give away the position of the marine but I kept I dropping them real fast in a line towards south loop and comp core until he quit following at computer core. It was like dropping food on the ground and watching an animal keep moving to grab each piece. Towards end of trail, I had dropped a PG at my ninja, gave my team instructions to immediately get ready to phase into the hive with full ammo, and managed to get the hive down. We won after that eventually with HA/Shotguns moving to finish the CC hive. But I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that worked, I never would of thought of doing that in any other case, it just happened & luckily worked.
Just had to share that piece, I enjoy people introducing new tactics that aren't so straight-forward but work.
Comments
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If you had enough res to spam health, why were you having such a hard time equipping your soldiers?
Question is, would a skilled skulk fall for it? Perhaps dropping another med in a random area that the skulk could see and then typing "get outta the chair, nub" on global chat would work as well.
Heh. I love covert tactics. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Question is, would a skilled skulk fall for it? Perhaps dropping another med in a random area that the skulk could see and then typing "get outta the chair, nub" on global chat would work as well.
Heh. I love covert tactics. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
LOLz yeah
the trouble is confusing the real nubs on your team <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
i was commanding this one time. My men weren't doing anything, they were just sitting in the base asking for weapons and stuff and of course humping the armory. One of our outposts was under attack and they wouldn't help, they just did random things. I had one good soldier fending off the aliens, and when it was clear i dropped an armory, and recycled the old one. I told them to report to the outpost for weapons. What do you know, it helped. We still lost when we couldn't get weapons at our base... so i guess it wasn't a very good plan. But then again, it wasn't a very good team.
And the global chat comment would make it icing on the cake.
- RD