Tips & Tricks 2

[Gobalopper]

The official site has posted another bunch of tips & tricks this time from QA Analyst Ben Galley. Check them out below:

1. Build five Ordos NIAB tanks and teleport them to a very remote corner of the map, out of your enemy's view. Then send a small force of other units into your enemy's base to distract him (hitting his harvesters will work). When you enemy is busy defending his turf, send in the NIABs and watch everything go BOOM!

2. Here's a nasty engineer tactic. Build an Atreides or Ordos APC, an Advanced Carryall, and five engineers. Load the APC with the engineers, pick it up with the Advanced Carryall, and voila! You have a mobile base capturing squad.

3. Create a Tleilaxu Terror. Line your ramps with Tleilaxu Leaches and Contaminators. Not only will they defend against enemy attacks, but they will increase their numbers with every kill.

4. Using Ixian Projectors, especially with long range units like Harkonnen Missile Tanks or Atreides Minotaurus, can be a cheap, effective way of breaking an enemy's base defenses with little or no harm to your main force. Using the projections will serve as a distraction, pulling an enemy away from their base for your "real" units to move in.

5. Here's a great Harkonnen Buzzsaw defense. Always keep several Buzzsaws at the entrances to your base. Not only will they stop any scouts from coming in, but a single Buzzsaw can take out dozens of infantry with it's massive blade. Kiss that Engineer/Infantry/Fremen rush goodbye!

6. Make it difficult for your opponent to get credits. Place a series of waypoints covering the enemy's spice field and with five to 10 Buzzsaws following the path, and watch the enemy's spice get chopped up into dust.

7. Scouts are essential to spotting stealthed units. Having 20+ scouts on the map, especially at narrow choke points or ramps, will help spotting those problem Fremen, Ixian Infiltrators, APCs, and any other stealthed nasties.

8. Having a large group of Ordos Dust Scouts hidden in a dust bowl is a great sneak attack against the enemy. The key is to wait until a group of enemy units moves past your hidden Dust Scouts, and then hit them from behind.

9. Use infantry rock wherever and whenever possible. Infantry that are in the infantry rock are extremely hard to kill and do a little extra damage to boot. Most maps have some nicely placed infantry rock at key points and, if used correctly, can turn the tide of any battle.

I am trying to get some strategies out of the boys over at IG, hopefully if they agree I will have them next week. :)