Tips & Tricks 4

[Gobalopper]

More tips from the guys over at IG today, this time they deal with the three Houses and five Subhouses, check them out below:

House Harkonnen:

* Scatter a group of Rocket troopers in front of your slow vehicles - they're cheap, good against vehicles and will draw enemy fire away from your expensive units.

* Use Missile Tanks instead of Gun Turrets as base defense - they're cheaper, mobile, and require no base power.

* Flamer units are not only good against infantry, but are also great for destroying buildings with their continuous fire.

* Always use Buzzsaws against Leeches. They're immune to leech spores.

* When using ADPs - make sure you produce lots of them. Clusters of them are surprisingly good against buildings and vehicles.

* A Death Hand Missile can practically take out a factory in one shot - if possible, aim it so that the residual radiation is in front of an enemy barracks.

* Combine a Devastator with an Advanced Carryall for a great base-buster!

House Ordos:

* Alternate a series of Dust Scout and Laser Tank hit and run attacks on the enemy. Their combination of high mobility and regeneration is perfect for eroding enemy forces.

* Always aim the Deviator at slow-moving or stopped vehicles. Then they can't fail.

* If you see an enemy MCV - Deviate it. Deploy it while under your control and the resulting Con Yard is permanently yours.

* Use Kobras in groups - their concentrated firepower stops infantry and land vehicles

* Deviate unguarded enemy Harvesters - and get them to unload their spice in your refineries.

House Atreides:

* Station Repair Vehicles beside valuable elite vehicles.

* Here's the ultimate base-buster combo: an Advanced Carryall, an APC and five Engineers

* Use the Mongoose instead of the Rocket Turret as base defense. Again, it's mobile, less expensive, and doesn't use base power.

* Place Air Drones over enemy spice fields. They're great at killing Carryalls and starving the enemy of spice

* If your Con Yard gets damaged, undeploy it and use a Repair Vehicle on it for cost-free repair.

* Don't forget to place elite infantry inside your barracks - this allows you to train veteran troops

Subhouses:

* Guild NIAB Tanks always work best in numbers during base assaults. If possible, drive them into attack and use the teleport to escape - very frustrating to the enemy.

* Tleilaxu Leeches are best suited for Harvester harassment. Spores on Harvesters prevent Carryalls from picking them up. Also, whenever you Leech a vehicle, try to damage it with additional firepower - this will accelerate the birth of the leech.

* Deploy a single Fremen Fedaykin with a thumper. You never know when a worm will come in handy. It's also worth remembering that if a badly damaged Fedaykin summons a 'fresh' worm and dismounts it, he'll recoup all his health.

* Elite Sardaukars are great for one shot kills on Ordos Laser tanks/APCs.

* Use Ixian Projectors to replicate enemy Ordos Laser Tanks. It's a cost-free, one-shot kill on an enemy Laser Tank. Fremen are also worth projecting because the projections retain their stealth capability.

* Whenever fighting against projected armies place scouts near them, which will dispel the projection. Use Atreides Snipers or Fremen warriors against the Projector tanks, which will instantly kill the projections.

* When moving groups of Ixian Infiltrators across sand, make sure they're scattered. They work best when sneakily deployed around enemy buildings and detonated simultaneously (press 'T' then 'D' to achieve).

Tomorrow Devinoch gives out some of his strategies and I hear there could be an new official website going online as well.