Okay, Gorges Can Win By Themselves!

WolfWingsWolfWings NS_Nancy Resurrectionist Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4416Members
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That was the vent and final score on ns_bast. Until the end when BatBat went in to take out all their turrets with an Onos and get the last fiddly bits up, we were all gorges.

I had enough defense towers built in those vents within' range of myself, that I took down two Marines that jetpacked up with HMG's by myself, as a Gorge, without being able to really use Web because I'd been littering their base with it from the vent.

Yes, with just spit. With their commander dropping health on them about ten times total.

I never died. I was regening like 70hp/sec from the def towers, and had level-3 carapace.

That was the BEST game of NS I've ever played. Admitedly, they should never have let me get INTO that vent, but... *grins* Skulk->Gorge->Webzilla for no reason but to annoy them. To be honest, their mistake was stopping to attack me back, I was just webbing them to try to get them to stay in base. It worked. *grins*

Evil Aliens Tactic #69: Web their base with ten to twelve defense towers healing you, screw damage, go for annoy!

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  • HellbillyHellbilly A whole title out of pity... Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3931Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    lol....good job with the Gorg <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Gorg?s are one of the most useful things in offense. Building towers, webbing and healing fellow attackers. Two Gorg?s healing each other are a good team.

    When i go to attack as a Fade or Lerk, i always want to have a Gorg behind me, backing me up. I really respect people who play Gorg like that and i always become one when there is need for one.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> are the 1337 alien class <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MutantMFMMutantMFM Join Date: 2002-07-27 Member: 1005Members
    On some maps gorges can completel halt the marines movement. I build a couple turrets infront of of the main marine entrance with alot of defence towers. They could not even injure one even with a couple seige cannons and them attack. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> They took the other way out of the base and started to get harrased by alot of aliens. We got all three hives up and alot of nozels and by theat time they were rushing the marines and they couldn't stop us. Just because of one little gorge and his abrricade. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ShinsenShinsen Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2889Members
    Just wanted to add that a simple set of three offensive towers and two defenseive towers near the human base make for a nice annoying combo. You can not believe the number of marines that feel overly compelled to detstroy that . . . I just ran back and forth as a gorge and healed the turrets. The commander was dropping health and ammo packs to help his guys. All in all the commander must have wasted a lot of resources to deal with just a gorge and his towers.

    ... and then the fades came in

    In the beginning the aliens need to harrass or kill of marines to make them do either one of two things

    1. Kill marines and make them lose equipment
    2. Keep them from expanding

    if you can accomplish that you got half the game won

    Shinsen
  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    takes about 10-15 hits with there spit thnigy to kill a guy tho so 1 on 1 there pritty much goin to die, but thats my frav call cause its fun watching the mariens trying to take out room after room of offy turrets <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • L3TUC3L3TUC3 Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5770Members
    Normally, I don't play Gorg. Pretty much stay Skulk the whole game munching on marine heads.

    Good fun, but I must confess, without Gorgs aliens suck.

    Are U shootin' my Gorg?

    Me Gorgkillah Evilprotector Gorg7h3L337
    <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • BrewBrew Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2572Members
    One of the best games I think I played was on a team of 9, there were only two of us as gorges. The resources came in nice and fast, I was able to get some resource nozzles up and chamber the [bleep] out of them. The other gorge was doing his own thing, and we set up hives 2 and 3 at just about the same time.

    Once I felt the hive was secure, went on an offensive towering bender. 1 to 1 ratio on offensive and defensive chambers, with the occasional movement chamber for emergencies. Eventually locked the marines into their own base and had a nice heal farm for the assaulting fades and onos.

    I think I was in the top 5 for kills come the end of the round, too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    -Brew
  • HellbillyHellbilly A whole title out of pity... Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3931Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Brew+Nov 8 2002, 09:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Brew @ Nov 8 2002, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think I was in the top 5 for kills come the end of the round, too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Am i right that you get the kills for the offense chambers you built that kill a marine?

    I?m rarely a Gorge because it?s rarely needed, but when i am, i often get kills even tho i?m far away from any marine.......
  • lljk_pointylljk_pointy Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7350Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Hellbilly™+Nov 8 2002, 04:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hellbilly™ @ Nov 8 2002, 04:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Brew+Nov 8 2002, 09:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Brew @ Nov 8 2002, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think I was in the top 5 for kills come the end of the round, too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Am i right that you get the kills for the offense chambers you built that kill a marine?

    I´m rarely a Gorge because it´s rarely needed, but when i am, i often get kills even tho i´m far away from any marine.......<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    correct!

    gorge power!
  • BrewBrew Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2572Members
    yes, you are credited for your towers' kills.
    but since I had a ranged attack, weak as it is, I'd still stand outside the heal farm and shoot what I could, when I could.

    LOL just remembered -- one time, I rushed the base as the gorge, and ran away as soon as a trio of marines came after me.
    I headed back to the heal farm, and a cloaked fade materialized behind them and shredded all three. They were so focused on me, being the PITA that I was, they never even <i>turned around</i>!!

    Beautiful ambush, perfectly timed and executed, it was a golden moment <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    -Brew
  • L3TUC3L3TUC3 Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5770Members
    Now THAT's what this game is about.
  • WolfWingsWolfWings NS_Nancy Resurrectionist Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4416Members
    Okay, here's the thing that I find so impressive about MY kills.

    None of them were from an offense tower. That vent, had a paired stack I used to climb up ENTIRELY of defense towers, nothing else.

    And the only kills I got were from my Level 4 Babblers at the very end. Until that point, I was getting the Marines to kill THEMSELVES both with their grenades bouncing back out of the vent, and by hitting them with so many webs, sewing them down once they hit one, that they'd kill themselves rather than wait it out. :-)
  • saint0zsaint0z Join Date: 2002-10-16 Member: 1505Members, Constellation
    yummy yummy yummy i got love in my tummy, and it makes my buildings strong!!
  • ekentekent Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7801Members
    A question, how do you get more levels for the alien upgrades? just more of the particular chamber?
  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2537Members
    edited November 2002
    Good job. I've found that as a gorge I can hold back a good number of reasonably well equipped marines with defencive and offencive turret formations, adequette resoruces, and a little head strt. However, I will point out that marines would be able to permenantly rid themselves of a gorge problem with one little move:

    <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Dang I want that siege cannon nerfed.

    Grenades can also knock out a defending gorge with defencive turret support too.
  • TANKER_666TANKER_666 Join Date: 2002-07-09 Member: 899Members
    Just want to state that I seldom lose a 1 v 1 with <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> after i got my web, Adrenaline and Carapace. Once ,even fight off a combine attack of 4~5 <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> with Heavy armour, jetpack, HMG and grenade launchers with the help of defend chambers and offense chambers outside their base alone <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Although I cant kill them they cant break throught either.They gave up after around 15 min LOL <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> rox when you got web
  • DonosDonos Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7300Members
    what you do
    is run to where you want to setup as a skulk
    go gorge
    build a dchamber, ochamber
    basically get a line of offensives backed up by defensives... put some dchambers behind terrain so they dont get hurt as much.
    once you max out
    or the marines attack switch to fade and just pummel and harass them from your nice offensive base..
    marines can never take out a farm of dturrets and oturrets with a fade guarding them since they gotta kill the fade first and he's just getting healed.
  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2537Members
    Yes going fade is an effective tactic, but sometimes so is staying gorge. You get the healing spray which you can use to revive your own defencive chambers and web which prevents marines from easily ducking out of the way, plus you can lay down replacement offencive/defencive chambers in between attacks. Just hope they don't take in grenade launchers.
  • DonosDonos Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7300Members
    ya heh but the fade is especially good to stop the gren launchers cuz
    you can blink to them since they really suck at close range.. and if you got scent of fear, say and are lobbing bombs they get damaged and you know exactly where they are so you can throw more when they come to the corner to spam :.. both ways work.. even better though.. just have 1 of each! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • WolfWingsWolfWings NS_Nancy Resurrectionist Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4416Members
    Um... I believe they had a siege turret up. :-)

    Yes, I had THAT MANY defensive chambers, they had three people lobbing GL's up at me, several of them hit me, I was healing around 70 points a second between armor and health. :-)
  • romanoromano Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4296Members
    <a href='http://romansj.homestead.com/files/ns_eclipse.jpg' target='_blank'>Gorge w00tage!</a>

    Most games I'll go skulk early on, then proceed to gorge, build a few defensive towers in a strategic position, then make "annoyance" runs at the marine base. Mid-game I might go fade to take out an expansion, but once the 2nd hive goes up, its pretty much gorge all the way!

    btw, the spit doesn't take 10-15 hits to kill a marine, not sure where you're getting that. Usually 6-7 will take him down, without HA ofcourse.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> for life! (with a little bit of <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> )
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    It was commander´s fault...... Siege cannon ffs...... and the aliens would have been screwed
  • MeowMixMeowMix Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4500Members
    I was playign gorg today and I ran around a corner and saw 2 HA + HMG marines right on top of me. I just hit my web button and both of them got webed! I backed up a bit and put webs all over them and the surouding area them I came close to them and spit on them till they died! Took a while but it's fun to be able to look a marine in the eye like that while they die!!

    Alos The other day the same thing happened but it was 5 marines... I web'ed them all b4 they had a chance to shoot me and a skulk happened to pass by. Too bad I got non of the cerdit for the screen filling up with 5 skulk bite kills!
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