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Ortoch
Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13805Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13805Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Gorge rush</div> In my experience there have been very few gorge rushes in my time but they seem to be somewhat successful. I think that the only reason they arnt implemented more is because of the high risk involved. What do you think for i have always wondered why this isnt a viable means of winning and why it isnt a common strat. Let me know what you think.
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Let a few skulks rush ahead, plop down 3-4 o's, and build at least one up. GG.
The problem I see is it wastes resources and leaves the hive very vulnrable. Had me and the other guy not wasted our ammo we could have killed the hive.
Organization and people taking you seriously. Those are the real road blocks.
That said, it's not really viable at all for 99.9999999% of pub games. When I've seen it done, however, oh boy is it fun. And yes, it can be countered by smart marines who know how to focus fire and/or have shotguns and know how to use them.
Something that aliens do in alot of clan matches is a 2 gorge/4 lerk rush. Its so awesome to watch. The way it works is they all move in a group to right outside the marine base. Any marine that walks infront of them gets gooified by 4 lerks spiking. Once they are outside marine base the 2 gorges set up DC's. Anytime the lerks take damge they are healed by 2 gorges and 2 DC's. Also the gorges can heal each other. Now that the DC's are up and the lerks are close to the entrance they can start using their bite which is devastating. once half the marine team is dead they all move in as a group. the gorges drop OC's and the lerks bite any remaining marines then go for the IP's. This strat is very hard to counter but takes extreme teamwork, timing and coordination. To counter it you gotta kill those gorges. You really need 2 IP's which isnt that common in clan matches. A distress beacon can help but observatories are rare in clan matches also. HA/HMG/GL wil stomp it but nobody does HA strats except SiD.... well atleast that i've seen.
Anyway Gorge rushes do work if you have 2 or 3 skulks to rn in and clean up any marines.
2 mins later we pulled a stunt, we all went onos and i ran into thier base and cloaked. They all shouted ONOS!!. I typed in say all " 1 onos!!! wait here comes 8 more!!"
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Back when I had the time to clan, I was the commander for cX. We did very good, but sYn had a very sucessful gorge rush stratagy that took me awhile to figure out. It beat us for awhile, until we learned to see it coming and responded to it (i.e., nix motion tracking and powertech to HMG/GL).
Here is how it works.
At the beginning of the game, the entire alien team hangs JUST OUTSIDE marines start, they cause havok and try to disorganize any relocations. Meanwhile, 2 gorges cap every RT they can on their way to a second hive. As soon as the second hive starts building, EVERY ALIEN pulls back and evolves to gorge except one. NEVER MORE THAN ONE. In the current resource model, how much of the total RP pool do gorges take? One third right? So the one non-gorge is getting 2/3 of all the total resources. Needless to say he has no problem evolving fade the moment hive 2 is operational.
As soon as the fade is done evolving (between 5 gorges, 3 movement chambers and adren always gets erected) they make a bee-line to the marine base. Fade goes in first, and the 5 gorges do a combination of webbing and healspraying. The more turrets the more healspraying, the more marines the more webbing. Web the IP a hajillion times and the game is yours in record speed. OC's could be used, but they are too slow and inneficiant when compared to a Fade in god mode vs weaponless marines.
Anyways yeah, Lucid laid out the lerk/gorge rush. It's sexy.
And yeah, you almost never see them in pubs because A) no one knows how it works and B) that level of organization isn't gonna happen.