Caltrops - Death Threats

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by Mischief Maker 05/18/2005, 9:56pm PDT

It was my first game and it was lost from the start for 3 reasons:

1. The garage I thought my missile tank was hidden in had a window I overlooked. Once it got into range he direct redlined the living hell out of it. I was lucky to get the missile off that I did. Losing the missile tank seriously screwed with my ability to soften him up.

2. I thought the light area around units was their line-of-sight. I thought I had that initial force of Exterminators out of sight but not only did he see them, one of them took a shot right in the back. Ditto for the missile tank that I thought I was sneakily moving into position.

3. Because of the LOS issue, half my forces were engaging from the get go while the other half was still moving into position. His entire firepower verses only half my firepower at a time. I deployed in 2 main groups because I was expecting his forces to be split. Once he got a bead on the first half I should have run them into cover inaccessable to his AIs.

BUT those two deaths resulted from a chain death reaction, the main weakness of the AI herd. Once their health gets seriously low, they turn into a free bomb for you. If they deploy far enough apart to avoid the explosion, they lose the mutual healing benefit of the herd and can be killxored individually.