buglunch on 12/3/2005 at 08:50

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It'll eat your llife for three weeks, you'll drive everyone crazy, then you'll see a thread about it and remember it.
IF you don't get a great multiplayer guild going by raw force...
/;;\

buglunch on 14/3/2005 at 05:33

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[SPOILER]EMP+immediate destruction of shield generator and attack.
Accept the downing of your own shield unless you're a really really good shot[/SPOILER] . Rebuild and have lots of resources and repairing leeway.
Build wisely and don't miss.

Shadowcat on 14/3/2005 at 10:07

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If you can't EMP a shield safely, you probably want to send out a new hub to attack from a different angle, or else see if you can't do the post-EMP attack from an existing hub further up the line... guided missiles can be useful here, as they can (potentially) travel further than anything else. Less useful if there are still active defence systems, but worth considering.

Shadowcat on 15/3/2005 at 01:47

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You do need to retain enough energy for any reclamations (and make sure you have enough balloons out to know how many are coming), but just watch for the direction they approach from and gradually expand outwards towards one of them as safely as you can. With each opponent (and their crawlers) removed, you'll have significantly less to worry about, but that first kill can take a while.

Just make certain that if you build a new node, you will still have enough energy to protect it from any nearby crawlers. You can then switch your defence of that opponent to the new node.

I didn't do this myself, but note that you can also expend less energy by flinging cheap targets out there for the crawlers to hit... this can help you to expand faster, so long as the detonations are sufficiently far away to avoid damaging your important structures. Similarly, if you can safely bomb an incoming crawler, then do it.

Shadowcat on 15/3/2005 at 04:10

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Probably. I never actually used the mines. There's obviously a gap in my strategies! Will a single mine take out a crawler? And if so, what sort of proximity can it do this from? (Ah, I see that mines will display their radius as with anti-air missile silos).

The advantage of throwing, say, a tower, is that you can use the cord as the target as well as the tower itself, so you potentially have a very large 'shield' in place. If you're lucky (or cunning) enough to have a crawler collide with the mid-point of a long cord, You might get away with no damage whatsoever.

And of course, mines cost 3 points of energy while towers cost 1, which is noteworthy if you're low on the stuff.

edit: you know, I keep forgetting that you acquire next-round energy for reclaiming enemy units, so all my talk of alternative anti-crawler techniques in order to minimise energy expenditure is probably a bit pointless (provided you don't miss your targets, that is! :)