Guest Flere Imsaho Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 Starting with the normal resources, you only have enough to build one turrent. Chances are if you're trying to get Tech 2 ASAP, then you haven't been mining any other ore. This means that regardless, you can only build one tower. A single tower that can't shoot at its base until Tech 3. Just send a calvary or jedi unit to break the tower down while it sits there. All it would cost you is shuffling your workers to another resource area until it's down. If this tactic wins you the game, then you are playing against true RTS newbies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoErat Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 I disagree. Every expert I've ever seen in this game uses towers if their strategy includes rushing. The same goes for experts in AoK: TC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 The one thing alot of you are missing out on is the fact that many 'experts' but I will call them losers, advertise their games on the zone as 'no rush' etc etc then rush, so the game is over in minutes. Fun? I think not. Proves that these 'experts' are total losers if thats the ONLY way they can get wins. I don't disagree on rushing at all providing that it does get mentioned as it's not giving those who are new a chance. Do we really want to put people off the game and off playing on-line? That is what these tactics do DMUK http://www.galacticbattlesgrounds.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ReaperFett Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 building forward outposts isnt my gripe. It is how this strategy uses it. Basically, it is rush to L2, then kill the game by killing all the nearby workers. That isnt fun in any way. Its cheap and lame to me. Say if two armies were in opposite corners. Id say youd have to build a base near the middle, yes. But that isnt what this tactic entails. This one has you getting to L2 ASAP, and then building a turret to kill the workers. No workers means that he loses. Is that fun to you, honestly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emowilli Posted November 30, 2001 Share Posted November 30, 2001 Its not cheap, but it's also not very effective. You are spending villager time and ore to build the tower. All I have to do is build another wood pit somewhere else. For the most part, it won't give you an advantage. Villagers can also kill a single tower pretty easily. If you are lucky enough to hit them when they don't have 100 carbon for a new pit, it can hurt. The most effective rush in SWGB seems to be the trooper rush. It can be hard to counter when done well. I generally wait to attack until 3rd age, but there is nothing cheap with attacking earlier. Emo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0lram Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 after reading all the responses i've come to the conclusion that this pirtucular strategy is VERY CHEAP.... my reasons being: 1) your doing it just to win 2) there is no fun in that, unless you take pride in JUST winning... 3) you don't get to fight any good battles 4) you don't learn anything, perhaps how incompetent your opponent is... 5) no HONOR in it... 6) and most importantly NO FUN!, you just piss off the other player and you gain no respect... at least not from me and many more... and in all tactics like these might be effective and what not, but in the end it ruins what could have been a good fight between to good generals.... so in conclusion VERY CHEAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BountyHunter Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 I think that's a perfectly legit tactic. I know from playing other games that sometimes a group of "better" players will get 2gether and decide what is an acceptable strat and what is not for the entire community. Mostly because they find there niche for winning and get upset when some "newbie" comes in and doesn’t play the same way everyone else does. I've seen the better players bully and ridicule other players into playing "their" game. I hope this doesn’t happen here. As long as no one exploits a bug in the game to benefit themselves or their teammates it should not be considered cheating or cheap. Besides...you should always have some men on the outskirts of your perimeter base to detect the enemy or just out of range of the enemy base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Destroyer Droid Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 Any expert or anyone with decent aoc experience (basically same thing ) Would waste you if you did your little walk vill over and build a tower near there stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted December 1, 2001 Share Posted December 1, 2001 anything is fair as long as u dont use cheat codes !!!duh!!! i read this towncentre tactic somewhere in aok since the teutons have a great towncentre bonus i read this somewhere advance to tech 2 as quickly as possible get enough wood delete tc build tc enough distance away from enemy tc so u can fire and they cant (cuz your teutons) works sometimes never tried it though people call it nasty tactic but i tink whoever though of it was really THINKING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darth_Venage Posted December 4, 2001 Share Posted December 4, 2001 Personally, I consider all 'rush' strategies to be walking the borderline of cheap, because a lot of people can't win any other way. But if it isn't banned in the rules, it isn't 'cheap' or 'llama' either. if you didn't happen to get my definition of llama a couple months back here it is again: llama= a person who breaks set rules(ie 'no-rushing') or uses tactics(like the one above) for no reason but to spoil the game and piss people off. Otherwise, in an 'anything goes' game, there are no cheap tactics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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