Take Advantage Of Alien Stupidity

briDge

<div class="IPBDescription">Just another thread about Shotty rushes</div> I was playing on ns_veil. We the marines had Pipeline hive and were fighting over cargo. They hadn't put the hive up yet but we knew they were in there, building. They had I believe 5 res nodes while we had 3 (nanogrid and pipline res were our 3 nodes). As we were about to set up siege next to cargo (the phase and TF had just gone up) our commander just disconnected from the game. So I decided to hop in the chair. We fought over cargo for a while when I just got an idea, and did a scan sweep of their original hive, sub sector I believe it is called. Just as I suspected there was absolutely nothing guarding their hive. No offense towers, no defense towers, and one egg <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . I then told everyone to come back to base... they were all baffled as to why I would do this and thought I was just a moron. I handed out 8 shotguns to my 8 marines just as level 2 weapons finished, and sent them off to the hive. They ran into one skulk. The hive went down about 30 seconds later.

But this is the great part. over HALF the marines were PARASITED. The aliens had plenty of time to react to this. They could have seen it coming, but face it... when playing the Kharaa nobody expects the marines to be on the offensive. They expect them to be on the defensive, turret crawling from res node to res node and wasting precious time and resources doing so.

Tiax

Your correct there. In 1.04 it was always "ill fortify this hive, you do that one". Now I never see defenses in a hive