The Best Last Stand Ever.

Windelkron · June 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">ns_bast</div> When your base is being ravaged...
sneak a marine into Engine room. There are a million ways to get into it undefended (vents, etc).

Anyway, have him hide in that little pit (it's at the top of the engine structure, has a small ladder on it). A CC and 2 IPs will fit there if you can build them well, even 1 IP will work.

Everyone on the team kill themselves (or just die) and tell each soldier DON'T ATTACK, HIDE. When everyone's spawned, OPEN FIRE! With a decent sized team, it'll kill the hive in seconds (usually one full LMG clip from everyone and a bit of pistol). It's a good last stand, and you might even get one or two people to respawn while the aliens are attacking (they usually can't find your IPs right away). If they build OCs on top of the IPs... good luck ending the game <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Misfit1 · June 2003

Things that come to mind:

- What if there is no hive in Engine?
- You're finished if the aliens find you, as they are most likely at 2 hives if this tactic if nessacary.

Windelkron · June 2003

I mean, if your base is being ravaged [by onos and spores and whatevers]. If they have Onos obviously they will have 3 hives.

Burncycle · June 2003

I remember doing this on the map with messhall and noname

We snuck one guy into mantinence vent (red hallway by noname) and built a CC next to the hissing pipe so they couldn't hear. We had motion tracking so we knew when to stay still and quiet, etc. They were all at marine start and then when it was destroyed they tried to find us but never checked the vent... about 2-3 minutes later we were all spawned and quiet...... then we went in and destroyed noname with LMG's. We died after; but it was really satisfying.

It's a rare thing in public games. Most of the time you have one screwed up player who rambos or somethign before your team has spawned entirely.... we had a good team that map

Bigwig · June 2003

I remember we once holed up in the bridge on ns_bast (I think it's really called the observation deck), while the aliens had three hives. We blocked the ladder with CC's and turrets and made a little defensible CC barricade that looks out onto the bridge (the bridge bridge... it goes right over a reactor core). Most of the team just lined up behind the barricade, which was low enough for us to shoot over. Actually, if any of you have read Lord of the Rings it was kind of like the bridge of khazad-dum, in that only one enemy could attack at a time. We actually held out for a long time there because oni couldn't even get halfway down the bridge before they fell to our concentrated LMG fire.

Misfit1 · June 2003

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Gotcha.

MonsieurEvil · July 2003

Cool.

I also like building a TF and a couple sieges in the engine vents. By the time they figure out where it's coming from, hive dead. and you have a nice long filed of fire to protect your gear while it works...

Even better in 1.1 where they can't gas you out, if you sent in the HA's... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Mouse · July 2003

Or, as I have done once. A stealthy 2 man conquest of engine room (I still don't know how they didn't attract attention, they were killing the hive for godsakes). Then build a base in there and then get everyone else left at marine spawn to fight like they are about to lose (yourself included). they kill you; one of the stealth force members jumps in the other chair at engine and commands while you are busy dying. then you hop back in and have a real alamo.

We lost anyway, but it took them a while.

Geronimo · July 2003

I remeber taking over a comm once on caged...tried to turn the game at first, but res was low, we had a TF in base etc..

I managed to weld the vent inc to base...then I built 6 CCs in the entrance...spammed mines and welders to everyone...kept 7 onos out for about...10 mins =)

then I got kicked for laming by someone that wanted to get wpn uppgrades and kill the onoses...

ADD: That my friend is a last stand =) /ADD...

Lt_Hendrickson · July 2003

we did something similar.
3rd relocation in shipping tunnel next to theri one hive at vent.
after all spawn we walk in vent and blast it to shreds while aliens eat our new base
neither team can possible spawn now. aliens run in and destroy ammo less rine. A couple rines shoot their last shot, some pull out knives desperatly. 2 surviving rines and 3 skulks left. rines cower cornred by skulk with knives out. skulks jump, skulk about to bite, all skkulks run out of health and die. marines one. super duper barly.

Melkor · July 2003

One time on bast the commmander put the ips and armory on the other side of aft starboard airlock. The game had gone on awhile with one or two skulks making rushes on our cc. Our comm goofed and thought someone welded the cc when in reality the marine got chomped. Before the comm knew what hit him the chair was destroyed and we were without a cc. All we had for a base was two ips, an armory, and a now useless obs defended by a decent amount of mines. The alien hive was ref so we all rushed there with our lmgs, and we managed to kill the hive. The buzzer didn't start though and we realized that the aliens had managed to get feedwater. The survivors from ref and reinforcements from our still working ips rushed to that hive next. I was running up the ladder from tram maintenance to feed when there were only two aliens left. A marine had just been killed in feed. I ran in and saw a skulk and a gorge. Shot the skulk with under 5 bullets and it died. Aimed for the gorge, another 5 or so bullets and it died, and with that the marines pulled of a stunning victory when all was nearly lost.

Akuma · July 2003

Fun thing we did was in nancy we had a base in subspace, a nice turret farm going (since base was going down and we had CC's and IP and all there) so had about 15 turrets total, three seiges, obs, armory, full upgrades, and entire team in heavy armor with HMGs and 3 GLs (8 person team) everyone knew what to do and anyone that did die we grabbed their weapons FAST and never lost more then the res for the HA (which we made up for on the one RT) aliens COULDN'T get us out! full on fade rushes with lerk support weren't killing us. We couldn't get out either was the problem. It was a 4 hour stalemate till the server crashed. The last stand of time.

We couldn't get out since if we started moving out the fades would sit ALL the way down the hallway in MI and just throw acid constantly...HMG and GL can't touch that.

BigMadSteve · July 2003

I was playing Bast last night and we managed to sneak a marine out of our sieged Atmos Base, Communistwithagun. He got into the observation deck and we stayed there for a while. An onos found us but he couldn't get in. Then a fade came, then my PC crashed...

The Best Last Stand Ever.

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