My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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ufo_jesus
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My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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Oh my sides. Playing in a 8v8 game, i try to get away with building nothing but dropships for my team and kidnap as many enemy units as possible. There is no greater feeling than sacking 4 ships or so to grab a sumo or bulldog. and then, on occasion, bringing it to a part of your base you don't mind the enemy to see, freezing it with air drones, then converting it to your team.

And when you do a successful commander-grab with maybe 10 or so ships... Feels goodman.

Even using dropships to grab level 1 units can be worth it, i tend to go for missile trucks and whatnot.
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PicassoCT
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but can your dropships comnap other dropships?

And if you have a dropship, filled with enemy combatants and the enemys base is nearby ... will it blend?
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Cheesecan
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ufo_jesus wrote: Even using dropships to grab level 1 units can be worth it, i tend to go for missile trucks and whatnot.
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wikipedia says original TA can max be played 5v5 so this thread seems but be about Spring. I assume BA because because it is the only game where you can freeze stuff with air drones. So thread goes there.
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Re: My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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ufo_jesus wrote:Oh my sides. Playing in a 8v8 game, i try to get away with building nothing but dropships for my team and kidnap as many enemy units as possible. There is no greater feeling than sacking 4 ships or so to grab a sumo or bulldog. and then, on occasion, bringing it to a part of your base you don't mind the enemy to see, freezing it with air drones, then converting it to your team.

And when you do a successful commander-grab with maybe 10 or so ships... Feels goodman.

Even using dropships to grab level 1 units can be worth it, i tend to go for missile trucks and whatnot.
Hey jesus, are you familair with repeat and area load/unload?

here is a cool trick:
select transports, set them to repeat
draw a circle with ~
use area load command inside of circle
draw a second circle with ~
select trasnports
do area unload on the new second circle.
Build a few repair pads near the load circle
set factories to send units to load circle.

you now have a ferry system :)
ufo_jesus
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Re: My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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smoth wrote:
ufo_jesus wrote:Oh my sides. Playing in a 8v8 game, i try to get away with building nothing but dropships for my team and kidnap as many enemy units as possible. There is no greater feeling than sacking 4 ships or so to grab a sumo or bulldog. and then, on occasion, bringing it to a part of your base you don't mind the enemy to see, freezing it with air drones, then converting it to your team.

And when you do a successful commander-grab with maybe 10 or so ships... Feels goodman.

Even using dropships to grab level 1 units can be worth it, i tend to go for missile trucks and whatnot.
Hey jesus, are you familair with repeat and area load/unload?

here is a cool trick:
select transports, set them to repeat
draw a circle with ~
use area load command inside of circle
draw a second circle with ~
select trasnports
do area unload on the new second circle.
Build a few repair pads near the load circle
set factories to send units to load circle.

you now have a ferry system :)
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very_bad_soldier
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Re: My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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This widget might be interesting too: http://widgets.springrts.de/index.php#85

Just place your factory's waypoint where you want your units to drop and have some idle air transports around. The rest happens automatically.
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Re: My new favorite TA strategy: Mass dropships.

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Even better ferry system. Maybe I should make a video for this. It has some chili layout stuff in it but anyone can still try to implement it in BA.
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smoth
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lol and I was just taking to forb about me writing that.
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PicassoCT
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Google_Frog wrote:Even better ferry system. Maybe I should make a video for this. It has some chili layout stuff in it but anyone can still try to implement it in BA.
nice.
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