Turtle Busting 101

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<div class="IPBDescription">in 225 res!</div>new guy, "ok so Rines are down to 1 chair and they have sealed themselves in and are gling everything that comes in the door what do I do?"

Me, "Simple. 3 onos!"

new guy, "but wait, iv tried that, and and we all died and they got the power back up.... :("

new guy, "Oh, I see you were attacking the powernode..."

new guy, "well yeah, it takes out everything in their base..."

me, "ok, but why didnt it work then?"

new guy, "GLs are op the onos killed the powernode and all the support got blown up and we had to run out"

me, "but why die killing a powernode.."

new guy, " its what everyone does..."

me, "silly boy powernodes are for kids!"

new guy, "well then whats your genius idea?"

me, "simple kill the Command chair"

new guy, "but the chair has more health then the powernode..."

me, "ok, so what?"

new guy, "its harder to get down..."

me, " yeah but here is the thing, when you get it down you win, they cant repair it, and it doesnt matter if they kill you after because its GG"

new guy, "so your saying that 3 onos can kill a CC before the rines can kill an onos"

me, "yep. and even if they kill one or even 2 of the onos, if the last guy gets it down its GG"

new guy, "well why 3 onos why not 2 or 4"

me, "3 is the minium id suggest, with only 2 running in its to easy for them to focus on one or the other... of coarse 4-5 would be overkill..."

newguy, "any other tips then?"

me, "yeah when your rushing the chair keep moving and dont stop attacking... get behind it if you can"

newguy, "why?"

me, "would you want to get behind a CC with an onos thats moving around"

newguy, "no."

me, "neither would any other rine, which is why they will all get back and try to shoot around it, so that if you move from side to side youll only me in the line of fire half the time..."

Swiftspear

I like it, I just don't feel like we've yet seen the end evolution of marine turtle wars. In NS1 it wasn't too long before armories started blocking off onos entry/exit paths. Additionally. Exos rip onos up (not quite as badly as HMGs did, granted), even a 4 onos CC rush isn't guaranteed to work. It's just better than the power node rush.

ScardyBob

Three onos + enzyme + powernode = Victory egging all the way to the bank.

billet

Agreed, CC chair pwnage is the way of the future. Get a lerk with umbra on those ON-I as well and its GG.

1dominator1

Or you can procure enzyme and some gorges and then kill all the buildings at once.

Superfly

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Did this last night with 3 Gorges and 2 Onos. All told we killed 6 Exo's this way and I never saw my health dip below 1000. They were not using a lot of grenades, they bet on the Exo's but once you push an Exo into a corner it's over before they know what hit them. Wiped out 3 bases and won the game. Felt pretty good considering that we were on the loosing side until we changed to this tactic.

IeptBarakat

I was commanding a Marine turtle after the previous commander gave up, the match went on for almost 90 minutes and didn't end until the entire alien side went Onos and mauled the command station.

Runteh

Oni rush is unstoppable, some may die but their achievements live on!

GG