Oct 26, 2006 03:47
Pill Clusters!
What the fuck is up with noobs throwing together pill clusters?
You'll wind up having all 7 of your pills between the two east-most bases in the SW quad of CT3 and nothing to defend your other bases with. You can't do anything but throw more pills in, sweep them out of the line, or kill LGMs to help turn the tide of the game.
I freaking hate this. It takes away from other possible tactics. Sure, I can rape and mine and deforest all I want but pillwars aren't quick. This means that one of their teams other players can keep doing the same to us. So you're essentially forced to pillwar.
Too many allies I've had in the past few days have used this strategy. Somehow, we've pulled out of each of them and put together some wins.
I'm gonna give you noobs some advice: watch the game logs for any games that you can that have pillwars like that. Figure out how you could have arranged those pills in a better pattern allowing you to carry one or two pills in your tank to FLANK the line and pull some of theirs off. Trust me, flanking works.
EDIT: this game log pretty much contains what I'm talking about. It's a little long but it illustrates the pill cluster strategy that I'm talking about. And you can watch me fuck up continuously elsewhere.
You'll wind up having all 7 of your pills between the two east-most bases in the SW quad of CT3 and nothing to defend your other bases with. You can't do anything but throw more pills in, sweep them out of the line, or kill LGMs to help turn the tide of the game.
I freaking hate this. It takes away from other possible tactics. Sure, I can rape and mine and deforest all I want but pillwars aren't quick. This means that one of their teams other players can keep doing the same to us. So you're essentially forced to pillwar.
Too many allies I've had in the past few days have used this strategy. Somehow, we've pulled out of each of them and put together some wins.
I'm gonna give you noobs some advice: watch the game logs for any games that you can that have pillwars like that. Figure out how you could have arranged those pills in a better pattern allowing you to carry one or two pills in your tank to FLANK the line and pull some of theirs off. Trust me, flanking works.
EDIT: this game log pretty much contains what I'm talking about. It's a little long but it illustrates the pill cluster strategy that I'm talking about. And you can watch me fuck up continuously elsewhere.
Last edited: Oct 26, 2006 13:39 (edited 1 time)