how to make good use of the deviator

[Black_Emperor]

put one deviator at your refinery, and 1 deviator at the spice field. Take over a harvester and send him back to your base, when he makes it there and unloads the spice, let the deviator there shoot it if it changes back.

simple, stupid, and effective stratagy

[Timenn]

And when the Harvesters turns to it's original house again, in your base, a carryall will pick it up. And then you had some AA Troopers...

[path_xiii]

i once deviated an enemy MCV in a 30K multiplayer.

I saw it moving to the next rock.. so i sent my adv carryall to that rock to wait for it... as soon as the MCV was dropped, i picked it up with my carryall and carried to my base...... where the anxious deviator was waiting........   :D

Also... try to use your deviator to pick up crates... if you're lucky, you'll get a cloaking crate.... Now, a cloaked deviator will bring immense fun to the battle - for yourself, anyway  ;)

[Timenn]

Experience is also nice. It gets alot of armor and more range

[louzynewbie]

Maybe the Deviator should be allowed to attack air.

Anyway Deviators are fun, whether you know how to use it properly or not. But it's always nice to observe the route your enemy always takes to come to your base. Then plant some Deviators on the way, and put some Kobras and AA Troopers there for defense. When he attacks, just send his units back or destroy them. But you need alot of Deviators. They're quite cheap, though.

[gunner154]

Because the AI is stupid it's a good idea to control enemy units with the Deviator.

And speaking of crates, I got a Deviator while playing Harkonnen in a comp stomp. I got the Deviator and tried to protect my ally's base (which was half-dead).

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

AI sends a lot of units that are good with deviator in front of attack. Its great deviate three minos on the front and they will do the rest.

Well, people do the same, thought...deviators can break rush sometimes.

[CypressX15]

I was playin the AI and i dropped a deviator into his base, and it happened to land very near one of the AI's projectors, i started projecting his own devastators and killing everything...Great fun

[Timenn]

Hmm, lucky WW thought of that too, that deviated projectors project Deviated projections. But wasn't it not too short time for it?

[Desert_Eagle25]

Deviators are good for breaking up defense too. once i was wurking to get my army built when i realized my harkonnen opponent had an UNBREAKABLE defense and was fighting mostly with gunships. i think he was cheating, be he had like 28 Devastators protecting the ENTIRE perimiter of his base. so i after i made my army, i ordered about 24 Deviators from starport. took control of all his devastators, and once i killed all of his turrets and all of his defenses, i self destrusted them, then I sent my army of dust scouts and laser tanks and took care of the rest. Deviators are life savers.

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

In some cases thay shows as one of the best units, even they aren`t good with infantry. You can also deviate enemy units and use it if worm is going to eat harvester. When worm eat enemy unit, go away and don`t eat harvester.

[Desert_Eagle25]

i wanna make a mod where if the dev hits a worm the worm is urs...that would be kool........*drools at the thought*

[Timenn]

It already can, it's possible already :)

[Desert_Eagle25]

ERRR..?!

so it built in 1.09 or issit in ur MOD???

[Timenn]

From what I heard, you already could deviate worms in the default Emperor (without mods)

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

I never tried this. And you just control worm in the same way as with fedaykin?

[Timenn]

I think so

[Desert_Eagle25]

for only about 30 sec. :P

also they hard to control and slow :P

[Timenn]

So it really can?

[Desert_Eagle25]

i dunno?

i'm just saying that IF U CAN

[Timenn]

Ok

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Well, I will go and try. 30 sec is Fedaykin time. And I used to rebelious character of worms. ;)

[Desert_Eagle25]

I fergot how to change the deviator effect time..errg

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Okay, so I had little adventure with deviator and sandworm.

You can deviate worm. But it isn`t that easy, maybe becouse I did it first time, cos deviator must stand in one place and target with gas on worm. And worm is fast and can be faster than shot. But I made it third time, worm was not as wild as with Fedaykin but very fast dived in sand. After destroying enemy mino. Maybe becouse he ate units fast.

[Timenn]

Yes it stays a surface worm, which dives back when it ate an unit (vehicle)