Tactics for DoW2

[squidy]

I'm not going to give the whole gist of it, but just somethings that I do in games. If you guys want to describe every detail, fine, more advantage for me!

I think the brood nest is broken if used right. What I do is make a horde of gaunts and rippers. Yes, your probably thinking, "why gaunts and rippers?" Well.... I'LL TELL YOU WHY!

You get all those gaunts, and the enemy will come at you. Your brood nest keeps pumping out the lost gaunts at a rate that makes each squad.... pretty much indestrucible if there are enough squads. The best part is, you get the broodnest for killing and losing stuff, plus the gaunts and rippers are free!

So, when the enemy comes along with what ever, they will eventually die to the horde of gaunts that can't be killed. Viehicle should be no problem. If you give your hive tyrant a venom cannon, the gaunts uber stall the vehiecles, while your hive tyrant shoots the $%#@ out of (them).

If the enemy attacks somewhere else, just move the horde to the location and set up another brood nest where you are moving the horde. I think that works...

If this tactic does't work against "flankers", it will for sure work against determined players, who want to kill the swarm and capture the surrounding points. It also does well in team games.

Anyone else got any good tactics?

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Well, any intelligent opponent will simply target the brood nest and destroy it

[ZergLord]

General tip: in the early game, your first priority should be resources, especially power. Control points are important in mid and late game.

When I play with my Tyrant, I always rush to give him that enhanced synapse upgrade. When I tech to tier 3, i like to upgrade him with a Venom Cannon.

The first things I build are Rippers and Termagaunts. Termagaunts join my Tyrant and Hormagaunts in capturing points. Rippers either go to the other side of the map and capture stuff/harass, or join the Tyrant and Gaunts; it depends on the map.

I think that it is better to send your hero and your units to capture points together, rather than to split them up. Commanders can't stand on their own, and you risk losing them.

God bless Without Number. It's a very useful power, it can give you allot of units very fast. Brood nest is also awesome, I always set my first nest very close to my base.

Know when to run away. You must learn to predict which battles you can win. When you see that things are starting to go badly, it's better to run and regroup at your base than to stay and pray that your units won't be slaughtered.

[The Custodian]

I always run the lictor... I love that hero, and love going Sam Fisher on every enemy commanders arses.. Let the army go around defending thingies while the lictor runs around flesh hooking enemy commandersand killing them before the enemy realizes it...

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Easy way to deal with Walkers, without using Carnifex:

Since Walkers are Tier 2, and Carnifex is Tier 3, most Tyranid players will meet Dreadnaughts and the like before they get their own heavy units. So, how to most effectively deal with them? The Hive Tyrant or Warriors with Venom cannon is good, but might not kill the vehicle before it gets into close combat.

Solution: A Zoanthrope and some Warriors with Adrenal Glands. With the Zoanthrope's focussed warp blast, you can immobilize it (plus remove around 50% of its health), upon which the Warriors can pounce on it and kill it in about two seconds. Quick and effective.

[Zoop]

Thats how I do it

I Prefer the Lictor of the Tyrant, Tyrant is just too slow for me. Besides, the pheremone trail of the Lictor which reinforces squads is really powerfull. It allows me to tear down Killa Kans with a lictor alpha, 2 termie squads, 2 hormie squads (basic tier 1 stuff). Throw the pheremone on the kan/dreadnought, he'll suffer a little bit of damage of it, but your hormies in close combat which are getting their asses pwned keep on coming works for me.

Also attacking vehicles in the rear helps a lot, camo-ing the lictor or using the jump to get behind a vehicle.

Haven't played human players yet, but I know I can easily beat 1 vs 3 expert CPU now with nids. I hope the CPU gets more intelligent than this tho

[Enigma]

I played a 3v3. Thing is, we were like 20 points away from winning (victory points), when everyone started lagging (it was multiplayer), and the game froze. We were so close too, and my first game. Still, I captured 2 out of 3 points our team had, so that was prideful

[raptorbrood]

My personal favorite strategy so far has, ironically been with the Orks! I usually choose the Mekboy as my leader. . .

I'll have at least 2 Wartrukks lead some Shoota Boyz and a Loota Tank into an enemy base. Then proceed to set up what I like to call a 'Forward Choke'. Basically I set up the three vehicles right in front of the enemies path and proceed to gun down anything that get close. I let the Shoota's take cover behind the Wartrukk, maybe throw in some Kommandos to spice things up, and of course have that Looted Tank take down any armor they're packing.

But wont they kill my vehicles you ask? Not with that Mekboy who repairs them as they're being damaged. . . Furthermore for more Choke backup I can throw down a Turret and really lay on the pain on enemy infantry. I'll usually use it like a Phalanx, using the vehicles as shields and inching my way towards the enemy base. Even with anti vehicular weaponry it's easy to pinpoint and destroy threats before they can get in a fatal blow. Once you're at their base there's almost no way out, the vehicles will punch through anything their base can pump out, and their repair ability makes them really a force to be reckoned with.

[nidcron]

Feb 7, 2009 8:36:16 GMT raptorbrood said:

My personal favorite strategy so far has, ironically been with the Orks! I usually choose the Mekboy as my leader. . .

I'll have at least 2 Wartrukks lead some Shoota Boyz and a Loota Tank into an enemy base. Then proceed to set up what I like to call a 'Forward Choke'. Basically I set up the three vehicles right in front of the enemies path and proceed to gun down anything that get close. I let the Shoota's take cover behind the Wartrukk, maybe throw in some Kommandos to spice things up, and of course have that Looted Tank take down any armor they're packing.

But wont they kill my vehicles you ask? Not with that Mekboy who repairs them as they're being damaged. . . Furthermore for more Choke backup I can throw down a Turret and really lay on the pain on enemy infantry. I'll usually use it like a Phalanx, using the vehicles as shields and inching my way towards the enemy base. Even with anti vehicular weaponry it's easy to pinpoint and destroy threats before they can get in a fatal blow. Once you're at their base there's almost no way out, the vehicles will punch through anything their base can pump out, and their repair ability makes them really a force to be reckoned with.

So, kind of like fish of fury without the fish part (is it called of fury? ;D)

[Helonion]

I tried the Tech Marine after the update and owned with turrets placed from 3-4 on a single signal array. They got tired and left because I hada heavy team and a tac team there. Also anytime they did kill my turrets they lost 1/2-3/4 of the units and reinforcements weer on the way XD

I faced the Nid unit on the other team.

Also I think Nids are a little underpowered, they get slaughtered to easily, I understand since horms and terms are suppose to do that but for only 8 a brood....hell send 2 broods of horms against a tac squad and watch as you die.

[The Custodian]

Thats why you have rippers under synapses to tie up any bolters/static units because they cant be suppressed, senin the rippers then follow it up woth gaunts... Currently Rippers are almost invincible...

[Helonion]

Feb 9, 2009 17:30:20 GMT The Custodian said:

Thats why you have rippers under synapses to tie up any bolters/static units because they cant be suppressed, senin the rippers then follow it up woth gaunts... Currently Rippers are almost invincible...

True, Rippers are hell to kill. Also they seem a little big for the game. Giant monkeys almost.

[darthsphincter]

If you cannot kill rippers, you havent upgraded your hive tyrant with rending talons. Against other nids, theres no reason to get crushing claws, so talons are key because of the poisonous roar.