A New Take On Mines
Mongoose
Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14096Members
Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14096Members
<div class="IPBDescription">This strat made ppl go WTH?</div> Alright so we (marines) were about mid-way through the game. We had level 2 weapons upgrades and controlled only one hive. Decided to try a new tactic... i called all my marines home and fitted everyone up with a pack of mines... i had everyone run over to the nearest alien controlled hive and of course my team wiped up any aliens that were sitting there. Ive noticed that mid-game aliens tend to not defend their main hive as they belive it is defended because of the constantly respawning skulks... Well, imagine the aliens surprise when ALL my marines took out their mines and literally sprayed mines all over the alien base... needless to say we are talking about 30 or so mines here... i put up a armory and slaped down a few mine packs.
During this time of course all of the skulks were desperatly trying to take back their hive but they couldent get near close enough to the rines to actually bite them without blowing themselfs up (had about 12 skulks kill themselfs trying to get to the marines). So anyways.. after a godly amount of mines are on the floor i just had everyone deck the hive with LMGs... All in all the entire assult probaly only costed about 60ish res and i ended up with a hive litterd with mines + a armory ^-^. This has to be one of the best games of NS i have played in awile <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
During this time of course all of the skulks were desperatly trying to take back their hive but they couldent get near close enough to the rines to actually bite them without blowing themselfs up (had about 12 skulks kill themselfs trying to get to the marines). So anyways.. after a godly amount of mines are on the floor i just had everyone deck the hive with LMGs... All in all the entire assult probaly only costed about 60ish res and i ended up with a hive litterd with mines + a armory ^-^. This has to be one of the best games of NS i have played in awile <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Comments
Very risky, but it can work ;p
gotta keep trying.
Luckily i have people like you to rip apart my topic <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> . Anyways yea this is mostly a pub only tac.. i mean it only really took 30 secounds or so to get the hive all set up... and most pub gorges dont know how to det. land mines with their spit so it works fine most of the time.
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Fire a foot or two ABOVE the mine. That's where the trigger is. Hitting the landmine itself does nothing.
LOL. Yes that even happens in clan play. Last night: thoroughly agreeing upon plan in IRC before hand. Rush empty hives with mines. Game starts. Armory goes up, mines drop and one starts putting mines about the base instead of rushing his designated hive. Force of habit I am sure <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
And also I can relate to those critical aliens have 1.5 hive times. I often brainstorm mine strats but I'm rarely the comm (heh) and timing, of course, is everything, with fades on the way.
Never knew that, was positive they didnt.
I thought only babblers / fade acid rocket / bile bomb detonated mines.
-GF