Battle Gorging

c0ke_for_the_lungs · December 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">A True Story :P</div> Not many of you know the true fun and ownage of battle gorging, but to make sure you are all aware I will educate you with a story! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> Story time children.

Anyway, a few games back me and 2 friends happened to all be a gorge at the same time, and in the same spot, thats when idea dawned on us. We were to rush into marine start under the cover of early game skulking (you all know the drill) and drop some ocs. Well this isn't you average 1 gorge party dropping some ocs at the end of the game in the marines base while the fades and onoi tear it to shreds. This was in the first minute or so of the game, so we were all a bit worried that we were about to lose 10 res. Anyway we rushed off to their base, and just as we arrived we dropped atleast 6 ocs and heal sprayed each other to prevent death and to fend off several bothersome marines. Once the ocs were up we knew we had won this one, it was only a matter of minutes. As the marines frantically attempted to remove the ocs, other gorges caught on and began to drop their ocs too (a good marine counter strategy to this is to drop a comm chair in between the ocs and your base to take the oc's fire for a while). It was quite hilarious in the ready room at the end of the game too, and I bet the marines were a bit embarrassed.

Anyway thats my battle gorging story, hope you enjoyed. Over with all that crap, if you can get a good squad of gorges together in very early game you might have yourself a similar story. Good luck with it.

<b>Laymen's Terms:</b>
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ParaseticLifeForm · December 2003

Hmm i should try that some time

Skydancer · December 2003

How could you have 30 spare res to build ocs in the first minute or so? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

c0ke_for_the_lungs · December 2003

I told you, there were three of us. Thats about 50 res between us all for ocs. Plus a few other gorges came in after and dropped some. Well trust me if you have three decent gorges at the right time it works.

Phin · December 2003

You forgot to mention that three gorges should drop MCs at the start. Then you can all go Adren and healspray forever.

c0ke_for_the_lungs · December 2003

Thats a pretty good idea, I'll have to try that next time. Thanks for the reply.

Phoenix_Six · December 2003

I tried the same thing before - except it didn't work. There were about 4 of us gorges, and having placed our oc's, killed around 1-2 marines. The other marines were nowhere to be found. Then we heard the "Our hive is under attack!" sound and realized they had gone around us the other way. We didn't have the time to skulk and get back to save the hive - they took it down and we died from ping of death...

Moral of the story: keep some skulks or base defense if you decide to gorg rush, otherwise you're taking an unnecessary chance. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

J3k · December 2003

not really a battle gorge story....

battle gorge story = i took out *** rines as gorge

gorge rush = ur story

Phin · December 2003

Phoenix Six: One Gorge should save their res for an MC instead of dropping an OC, just in case the rines rush the hive and you need to get back quick.

DC_Darkling · December 2003

battlegorge aint a rusher.

of course a best battlegorge is a 3 hives gorge. I'll talk from that point of view.

So the rines got you cornered down? Got 3 hives but low on resources? get your evolutions going.

first go gorge. then select carapace. Regen won't work against a hmg. i prefer some armor to actually outlive a rine. don't pick redemption. useless with hmg.
So now to pic adren. speed and silence both have little use versus rines. adren is the way togo. If you can push out spit and webs on that speed, you are better.
battlegorge means that you move so just pick SOF.

time to play. remember that you are slow and can't take alot. keep webs on your last used key. Now either start BBing rines base or spitting them. There bound to finish off the easy gorge. Be damn sure to fire webs infront of them. Then spit. do it fast. strafe and jump. most rines lack the skill to keep up and your rate of fire aint that great. So your aim shoudl be fine.

got 10 res? get a OC pushed out. it either gives something to shoot on or actually finishes building. strafing around it, sometimes building it, might help but concentrate on dodging.
if you are low on health you might consider DC instead.

you are there for a reason. rines are a problem and must die, however.. SHOOT THE BASE. adren gives quiet some good shots. So go ahead and shoot. strafing around your buildings might increase performance.

Of course in the end you'll die. If you manage o web you will seriously extend your life. Also teamup with another gorge will again double lifespan.

try to remember this and you might actually take out that big ol' base. Like it should be. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Abra · December 2003

Ok guys speard this:

When a player (you or other on your team (alien) ) says Go BG

Then Go Battle gorge

like rines saying reloate we call this BG! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Phin · December 2003

Well... If you have three hives then you could just run up and xeno their base as a skulk over and over instead of battle gorging. On a side note, I've seen three-hive games lost because noone bothered to xenocide and instead saved up for fade and got ripped apart when they tried to assault the rine base.

Anyway, It's much easier if you stay behind higher lifeforms or in groups, constantly healing with adren+healspray. You'll get a kill now and then, and that Onos you're hiding behind will protect you, (Or he should, if he has any sense). It's one of those deals that benefits both partys. Also you'd be better off with regen, as you'll only get hit occasionally.
You can also bait the rines; Sit at the end of a hallway and start spitting at anyone you see. Knowing most rines, they'll think 'OooooOOOooh, fatteh knife kill!' and run after you, at which point you run around the corner and into safety. They run around it shortly after and get decimated by your Onos buddy.

There's no point in battle gorging early in the game, as you could instead devolve to a skulk and do more damage. Or, if enough people are gorge, then you can simply GR the rines.

Necrosis · December 2003

Actually sometimes if a gorge can get into marine spawn and drop some OCs it can really mess up their defence. If you do it right on the tails of a mass xeno rush, you can have an OC or 2 built which makes further xeno rushes all the easier.

There's that or there's biling turrets while the enemy are respawning.

For coordinated base raping I prefer a redeem celer gorge as you're becoming hit and run, so you don't need cara and neither do you need adren since you'll only have time for 2-3 bb before you've to run out again.

Ballisto · December 2003

a TRUE battle gorge healsprays heavy trains to death.

(heavies) <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'>
*web* *spray* *web* spray* *spray*

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'> <----- chuckle

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ironbiTe · December 2003

It should work a newbed public servers but in a clan game the Marines know how to defend their base... a OC takes about 3 or 4 Shotgun shots so hm hm.... stupid marines when they let the first 3 OCs stay until the next gorges come out to build 20 new ones ,) But i was on this server too i saw it as marine <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Machiavelli · December 2003

One shotgun = dead gorges. This works better if you have a skulk or 2 with you though.

When I gorge, I don't go back skulk. I stay gorge and help my team get kills by healspraying skulks. Staying gorge is often better, because 1 gorge and 1 skulk is much more powerful then 2 skulks (unless they have a shotgun). Also, if I die as a gorge the marines will think they have scored a victory of some kind, even though I have already droped my buildings.

Necrosis · December 2003

Can always take redeem, thats good for making the rined PO'd.

DC_Darkling · January 2004

Its true that redemption helps however as a battlegorge this is of little use. it pulls you out way to fast.

Necrosis · January 2004

Indeed, but regen isn't much better. Besides, with redeem you're saving the res you'd need to re-evolve everything. You should have DC wherever you're fighting, so you don't need regen. Cara is possible but redeem is better since you will very rarely die.

So thats saving you a lot of res which you can use to get a higher evolution, hive, more chambers at your forward post, etc.

DC_Darkling · January 2004

basicly the old story, pick the upgrades for your task.

Since I usually battlegorge and try to make it to the next DC I always use carapace.

Dark_Wolf_EXE · January 2004

Hey coke what map was this on?

L_et_M · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Anyway, a few games back me and 2 friends happened to all be a gorge at the same time, and in the same spot, thats when idea dawned on us. We were to rush into marine start under the cover of early game skulking (you all know the drill) and drop some ocs. Well this isn't you average 1 gorge party dropping some ocs at the end of the game in the marines base while the fades and onoi tear it to shreds. This was in the first minute or so of the game, so we were all a bit worried that we were about to lose 10 res. Anyway we rushed off to their base, and just as we arrived we dropped atleast 6 ocs and heal sprayed each other to prevent death and to fend off several bothersome marines. Once the ocs were up we knew we had won this one, it was only a matter of minutes. As the marines frantically attempted to remove the ocs, other gorges caught on and began to drop their ocs too (a good marine counter strategy to this is to drop a comm chair in between the ocs and your base to take the oc's fire for a while). It was quite hilarious in the ready room at the end of the game too, and I bet the marines were a bit embarrassed.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

An easy way to counter that kind of early game gorge rush is simply to give up. Let the aliens waste their res while few marines build a new base. Usually by the time the gorges get in to the base marines have had the time to cap a couple of nodes. Now if you manage to relocate to even a medicore position, the game is yours. There really is not much the aliens can do since they don't have nodes and they wont get any. All they have is a bunch of oc's in worthless location and a bunch of resless gorges. This has worked for me.

DC_Darkling · January 2004

true. I never gorge rush. if the entire team will I will go claim RTs, just in case.

Doobie_Dan · January 2004

If you have more than 4 gorges in a gorge rush, you might as well cap all the nodes on the way to marine start - you've got the res for it and they sure as hell won't get attacked for a while. I did a 8 player gorge rush from Biodome once. That's a total of 108 res after gestating and getting adren. 3 MCs in the hive, then Xeno and Comp lab RTs still left us with 48 res for OCs in MS. Devastating, they didn't stand a chance, but mostly because the marines came back from scouting to get killed one by one <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

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