Is this Lame?

Limi · 2003-04-11, 01:09 PM

From the recent gamehelper preview:

One unique tactic I soon fell upon involved driving a Vanguard tank up to a captured tower, hopping out, and then having a friend ride the gun turret while I stood near the door and kept it open. This allowed him to effectively suppress everyone that tried to leave the area, giving the rest of our group time to move in. Set up a second Vanguard at the door on the other side and you�d effectively have the whole place blocked off.

Valid tactic or lame? You decide.

balab · 2003-04-11, 01:11 PM

why? didn't everyone do this in every war?

and what's the phoenix for? try blocking one of that flying out of the door.

LesserShade · 2003-04-11, 01:11 PM

Lame if your TR or VS, effective if your NC. They don't have unlimited ammo so they couldn't do it forever.

Airlift · 2003-04-11, 01:26 PM

Originally posted by LesserShade
Lame if your TR or VS, effective if your NC. They don't have unlimited ammo so they couldn't do it forever.

Unless they are supported by an AMS and someone to load the trunk. Still, once a couple of decent AV people make it thru the hellstorm to get to the roof of the tower, the game is up for the tankspammer. Or people spawn elsehwhere and come back with a flight of Reavers.

FraBaktos · 2003-04-11, 01:47 PM

All is fair in love and war

Cyanide · 2003-04-11, 01:47 PM

You should notice that only tactics that kick peoples asses are considered lame. If you don't have to hack the game or otherwise break the normal rules of the game to make a tactic work it is perfectly valid. This is a war game. War is not supposed to be fair. One side developes a tactic that the otherside has no easy counter for. Then the other side must learn to counter effectively in order to survive. This is the way of war. Always has been, always will be.

Ginzue · 2003-04-11, 01:56 PM

I think its a good idea, accept its USED ALL THE FRIKIN TIME IN T2! Member the tank and somone just sits in the gunna and Morts the heack outa somewhere, the only prob is if somone starts whippin on your tank, you can't move.

Happy lil Elf · 2003-04-11, 02:00 PM

Cheap? Yes. Competely valid? Yes. If you're in this to win, you do cheap things. This isn't feudal Japan, you're not fighting for honor.

simba · 2003-04-11, 02:01 PM

the thing is: lame is not the same as valid/legal

legal=lame= NOT TRUE
its lame as fking hell, spamming rockets got no skill and is lame as hell.
The most things that kix azes and requires no skill is usually lame.
Theres other tactics, thats just a stupid lameass retarded 1.

"u shud notice that only tactics that kix ppl:s azes r considered lame."
Not the 1:s with skills, if some dude goes in a room with 2 ppl and kix their azes (well this is almost impossible since theres NO FKING HEADSHOTS!) its not lame. But 4 the tactics, well if some guy in infil suit sneaks in 2 a base and hax the control, thats not lame, thats skill.

also I noticed somethin else in the preview, c if u have seen it 2, brb.

simba · 2003-04-11, 02:03 PM

k found it, "everyone starts off at battle rank 10 (allowing 13 certifications points 2 bgin with)

shouldent it be 11 cert points 2 bhin with?

Melbourne · 2003-04-11, 02:09 PM

It may be lame but it is a good tactic. It forces people to react to the people assaulting rather than the defense forcing the offense to react. The defense will have to spawn elsewhere and bring in a galaxy and hit him... even a single troop with an anti-tank gun could probably finish him off. The only people who are going to curse the guy out are the people who are going to constantly spawn into the same place and getting killed because they can't figure out that there is no way they are ever going to get out of there in one piece.