Early Decomission?

posted on August 20th, 2010, 4:43 am

Early decommission is a strategy that seems to have caught on. Have you had to use it before? If so, what sort of odds did you have to face? Early warpins? generex spam? So nows your chance to talk all about it and get off your chest how op or up you temporarily think things are. I'm sure once you get it off your chest you'll feel much better. Lets consider this a thread where you can complain all you want even tho you know you don't mean any of it. Well maybe a little.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:32 am

I don't know... Early decomission never happened to me so far. But when it does I suppose it's too late for anything anyway.
The earliest decomission happening was while playing Roms when I ran out of resources. But tbh I suck at Roms so it has nothing to do with the bugs and S2s picking my miners and constructors apart  >:(

posted on August 20th, 2010, 2:33 pm

Hah! Isn't that what the Tunngle pre-game chat is for?  I mean, yesterday we even heard about the supposedly hugely overpowered "Phalanx Rush" 

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:06 pm

I tech too fast and even when not, my expansions get destroyed. Dont have enough ships to counter, or even attack. I make something wrong, or the others cheat. In the time I got one sphere, others got 3 assims. Dont know, how they get on the ressouces.

If you play feds, I get owned by cloaking attacks. If I play klings or rommies, I get owned by warpins. And if I play dominion, I cant even build my first prototype, without being harassed.

I need more practice I think.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:08 pm

I need more practice I think.

Good idea, and not blaming it on people cheating 

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:10 pm

I mean, yesterday we even heard about the supposedly hugely overpowered "Phalanx Rush" 

I understand you have never been a victim. The Phalanx Rush will scare the crap out of you, you will never be able to sleep again  :alien:

In fact Phalanx Rush rulez. If only you could rush it in a 1v1 without being screwed first  :sweatdrop:
Some days ago I saw it happen in a 2v2. It wouldn't have happend without a cloaking ally though protecting the Fed's back I suppose.

Anyhow I need more practice, too. 
Who wants to be our teacher? 

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:14 pm

if ur opponent let u phalanx rush in a 1v1 then he deserved to lose.

chassis 1, 2 then 3, then big yard. then the costs and time of the phalanx, takes all day.

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:15 pm

For all intensive purposes that sounds like a 1v2 OldMan. The player who was "rushing" Phalanxes wouldn't even have any ships for the majority of the early game due to spending several thousand dilithium and tritanium just to get to that first Phalanx. If they are just teching at a faster than normal rate, well, somebody isn't pressuring them enough  :whistling:

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:23 pm

You're right, both of you. It does take all day and it didn't work out that well for him because I was constantly blowing up his miners and Intrepids/Sabres he had coming out while teching up to chassis 3 with my small (up to 10 ships) fleet.
I had his Phalanxes and other big stuff at my expansion and in the end at my base because of a huge blob of Rhienns blowing up my fleet... 
Well, it was a 2v2 and the reason we lost the game was a good Romulan player on the other team and a lack of coordination in our team. 

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:43 pm

huge blob of Rhienns blowing up my fleet... 

i went against huge blob of generix... then boom phalanx~ >_>

posted on August 20th, 2010, 3:46 pm

So, let's do our homework here: Roms are spammers and need to be nerfed. 

More on topic I guess it's good to say that even decom doesn't help against blobs 

posted on August 20th, 2010, 4:45 pm

every time I see someone going for phalanx/sov rush, I rush them and kill all of their minners xD. Or just spam akiras or e2s as they are better baseline units

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:26 pm

I got Phalanx rushed, and now I can't sleep at night.

All I hear is "The Federation will prevail!", "Damn, it's good to be in the Federation!"

And

"I'm uh chargin' muh lazer!"

posted on August 20th, 2010, 9:27 pm

posted on August 23rd, 2010, 5:26 pm

I was wondering about experimenting with AI. Maybe I can have it where a version of the Fed AI rushes the Excelsior II class and then techs up immediately to Sovies and Phalanxes. Before the Excel IIs would be Saber and Monsoon Spams.