2 Armslabs

Daza4

<div class="IPBDescription">A n00bish stratergy that can work</div> Ok before you start going on "LIEK OMG STUPAD n00b COMM!!"
2 armslabs can really make marines victory in the commanders grasp. Researching 2 things at once can really save your marines a**es. This means the marine swill go out with better chance of surviveing and better chance of killing. Ofcourse it cost another 40 res (?) (I can't remember. Haven't commed in a while) But can really save you from aliens winning. I just wanted to point this out.




<span style='color:red'><b>FLAME ON</b></span>

Tonee

I dont think its a n00bish stratergy

1. Because you need the res
2. You are using twice the amount of res to get upgrades instead of spending that res to maybe secure a hive

Anyways - i use it only IF i have the res

Wirhe

Which is to say: never. If you have the res, most likely you have won already.

BigBull

I do this all the time IF i have the res. Usually 4 res nodes or more.

Sarisel

Arms Lab costs 25 resources. The benefits from having it there are that you can get your upgrades in 1/2 the time that you would usually get them.

Niteowl

i think in large open maps (veil, origin), with a large number of players, IF the aliens go DC first. yes, you can go dual AL and combine it with a the rine rambo strat. basically having them rove the map taking down alien RTs and putting up yours.

have eventually 3 ips so you are outspawning the aliens, and this is a solid strat.

CEldin

I agree, generally speaking I only employ that strat if I know the rines are decent and its a huge server (I'm talkin 12+ EDIT: on each team), because at that amount of players, your assets have a higher chance of being attacked (more players, thus more patrolling) and securing a hive is significantly less effective due to this.

2_of_Eight

I usually build 1 Arms Lab. I built 2 only a few times.
Oh yes... I was sleepy this one time, and I was comming. I built 3 Arms Labs... I thought it'd be faster. Stupid me! I wasn't thinking.

taboofires

If it weren't for the fact that the research times are really short, it might be worthwhile to do so. Cutting a really short time in half doesn't make much of a difference.

2_of_Eight

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Unless you have many of those "short times".
If there'd be 1 upgrade, there would be no purpose for building 2 arms labs.
If there'd be 2 upgrades of 10 minutes each, there'll be a purpose.
If there'd be 20 upgrades of 1 minute each, there'll be a purpose.