Death hand

[Terenas77]

Ive noticed that the Harkonnen superweapon is quite weak compared to the others. Hawk strike is lethal as well as the Chaos lightning while the Hark's Nuke is useful onlyaganist buildings damaging them.

Its damage is too low as well as the blast radius.I find them useful only to blow up enemy palaces.

Another disadvantage for the poor house Harkonnen :'(

[ken124578]

Another disadvantouge!!! give me some disadvantagouses!

About the death hand: it is EXTREMELY usefull, it's good for getting rid of important buildings in a heavily guarded base!

[Mad Rhetoric]

ts not EXTREMELY useful,but once,I threw a Death Hand at the comps windtraps,and that poison leaked out infront of the barracks,so whenever someone came out,they just died!!! ;D ;D :D :D

[rigel6669]

Ive noticed that the Harkonnen superweapon is quite weak

I find the death hand missile the best palace weapon!! You can target buildings and units, it even leaves a temporary green toxic area after hitting the target zone that kills or damages all units that pass the toxic waste. When you try to use an engineer to repair heavely damaged buildings, he will jump up and die....

And the best part: once fired it has a 100% hit ratio for buildings.

;D

The superweapons of the other 2 houses can be countered by simply picking up the affected vehicules with advanced carryalls.

[Timenn]

Yes, the toxic waste area it gives is very useful.

And you can blow up some windtraps with it, so the opponent is with low-power

[Dante]

It's useful in that it's the only superweapon that actually can damage buildings (besides the odd chaos lightening when turrets are hit). That's got to be anadvantage.

[Terror]

yeah, i guess it's kinda good. Not overpowered, nor underpowered. Perhaps less usefull vs. units than the other 2. But it's good at striking at a base... and the radiation is quite powerful

[XCH]

Deathhand is the BEST SuperWeapon. The only problem is it is not as good on troops as it is on buildings.

[lowzeewee]

its good on troops when they are massing in 30s or 40s and its better when they are massing by their barracks as any troop that comes out will be toxicated when walking on the toxic

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

Death Hand worse than other weapons...? So Hawk Strike too?

Its more usefull than LIgtning cos it can help destroy all base not only vehicles...and Hawk Strike...oki, that`s all ;)

[sycplayer]

dude i gotta see for ur self death hands r the best when a game has supers and is a long game hark wins. :O i cant believe what u think.

[The_Cheat_Lord]

The DH is good if you can anticipate where the units are going (Like a group of infantry) then you aim there, and watch the guys you were aiming for get blown up. Ooo, pretty fireworks. 8)

[ken124578]

The death hand is to destroy BUILDINGS!

The hawkstrike is to eliminate fast UNITS.

The chaos lightning is to eliminate strong UNITS.

[Warlord]

you dont fire the death hand at moving units...

but the best thing to do with it is to launch it right before you go for an assult against the enemy. If you fire at the windtraps, you take out the AA turrets and slow down training/building time. Another way is to fire it at a strong building (EX:conyard) and send a force of 4 or 5 gunships to do away with whatever lift it has left.

[sycplayer]

The death hand is to destroy BUILDINGS!

The hawkstrike is to eliminate fast UNITS.

The chaos lightning is to eliminate strong UNITS.

i agree

[Terenas77]

I still find deathhand the worst superweapon.

An hawk strike or a chaos lighting can wipe out entire armies, while with the deathhand you will only loose some expendable windtraps or perhaps get a building damaged. BTW it is almost impossible to hit troops with Deathand, unless it is cpu or a n00b.

[The_Cheat_Lord]

By moving targets I meant slow moving ones. Like the Minotaur or Devestator.

[ken124578]

BTW it is almost impossible to hit troops with Deathand, unless it is cpu or a n00b.

>:(, yes i am offended with this, i've sacrificed alot of hours to help newcomers (newbies!!) and you come inthe forum and call them all or atleast most n00bs, read my signature and remember it! >:(

Terenas77, only a newbie or as it is written in your dictionary, n00b, would try to nuke a group of UNITS!

The Harkonen Death Hand Missile is for BUILDINGS

The Ordos Chaos Lightning is for STRONG UNITS

The Atreides Hawkstrike is for FAST UNITS

Notice the BOLD, UNDERLINED WITH CAPSLOCK WORDS >:(

[Harkdawg]

eventho ken says that DH is ment for getting rid of buildings, i find DH to be a very good setup for an attack ( SW is a good setup for attack with any House ), ive gotten more than 12 minos with DH. acctually, the DH doesnt destroy even factory when it hits, when the player starts to repair it right away its just a waste of DH.

[Timenn]

But if you are not sure an attack of units will succeed to destroy a building. You can launch the Death Hand. Because the toxic waste will prevent repairing for a while

[Seal89999]

Dont go round throughin dises tword the death hand. Its quite good. Best in my opinion. Hawk strike is real good too. Chaos lightning ........... :P gimme a break

"oh look at me i can switch some units around for a few seconds, whoop de do da. Even though its not enough time to blow anything IMPORTAINT up."

[Terenas77]

I still belive that the death hand is a minor threat compared to the other two superweapons.

Chaos lighting can annhilate a whole army, as well as the hawk strike(sometimes) while the DH is good only to damage(not destroy) key buildings. Best targets for me are Palaces and Starports. For the rest.. it is near to useless on his own.

[Warlord]

palaces, starports, barracks, windtrap groups, weakened structures

[lowzeewee]

i find that the chaos lightning has the least effect[other than 1 hit KO on troops]

[Warlord]

it is the least effective