| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964058] |
Fri, 10 January 2003 01:22  |
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This is not so much a strategy than it is an observation. Tanks flee Engineers.
I have found that people in tanks will take no notice to basic infantry (minigunner, shotgun, or even flamethrower), however if you get the basic engineer, they will stop pounding whatever building they were and start shooting at you.
One time I GDI was pounding our HON with two mammys and a med on Walls, and I charged the entrance to our base with a basic engineer wielding only a pistol, both mammys and the med stopped shooting the HON and went after me. After bouncing and jumping around for a bit trying to get close enough to throw some C4 (all three tanks were backing up) I got killed. This gave only 1 point to GDI and allowed our HON to be completely repaired.
This tactic sometimes can buy your team 5 to 15 seconds from attack depending on how lucky/good you are at jumping around. Sometimes it is useful, most of the time it is futile, but it is always fun to see two mammys retreat at the advancing pistol!
This doesn't work on everyone, and your kill/death ratio suffers, but sometimes it is necessary to take one for the team.
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964057] |
Fri, 10 January 2003 02:00  |
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quote:
Originally posted by frijud:
[QB]This is not so much a strategy than it is an observation. Tanks flee Engineers.[QB]
Wholeheartedly agree. I personally will back up and kill the engineer from a distance, because I know darn well he has a timed c-4 ready to lob at the first sign of my moving forward. Now if there are 4-5, I will roll forward and kill them all at once so the other tanks don't have to be distracted with them, and I take it on the chin for the team.
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964055] |
Fri, 10 January 2003 07:22 |
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quote:
Originally posted by lukazan:
I'm scared of Engineers.
Arent we all? But I take the smart man's approach and squish em and make jerky outta them ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964054] |
Sat, 11 January 2003 00:51 |
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quote:
Originally posted by DBB:
quote:
Originally posted by lukazan:
I'm scared of Engineers.
Arent we all? But I take the smart man's approach and squish em and make jerky outta them
one time, an engineer is chasing behind me, then he was going nearer and nearer, I pretended that I didnt saw him since the MRLS's rocket Launcher dosent turn, the moment that he is about to plant c4s behind me, I suddenly moved back and eventually squished him!
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964053] |
Sat, 11 January 2003 01:14 |
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Basically engineers have explosives which can seriously damage tanks so thats why they flee
[ January 11, 2003, 09:22: Message edited by: Rvddps ]
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964052] |
Mon, 13 January 2003 01:05 |
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Engineers are one of the most deadly units in the hands of an expert. Even releatively poor players can inflict decent damage if he is lucky.
Experts have a lot of options available at any given time - should i repair my teammates tank, or is it ok? should i shoot the enemy engi with my pistol? should i sneak up behind the sniper and blow him up wiht my remote c4, should i risk c4 that stealth tank? should i return to base and repair that building? Should i try a rush?
remote c4 is lethal!
proximity is even more lethal!
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964051] |
Mon, 13 January 2003 07:49 |
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yup, one thing you can do if your lucky, is the.... BLUE BEAM RUSH! lol, i remember that... anyways, ya, if theres only like 1 tank on the field, (make sure there hurt) u run at them with your blue beam, (sum will kill u, sum wont) ya.. u run at em, keep firing that blue beam, then once you star repairing them for a split second, THROW YOUR C4!! this does work ussaly if the dude in the tank is a idiot lol, when this happens to me, i let the engi approch me, but once he gets a a certain distance i back up a bit, so theres always a big space, then if the engi gets hostile with c4, YA RUN EM DOWN lol, ya anyways... just my 2 cents ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964049] |
Thu, 16 January 2003 01:16 |
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If the engineer is lucky the take will have to take 3 to 4 shots to kill him, and in the meantime, the building that the tank was pounding is is being fixed.
Four shots on a building is what...around 80 points or so? Four shots killing a basic Engineer is 1 point. Good ratio if you ask me, unless you are going for kill ratio, then it is not so good.
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964045] |
Thu, 23 January 2003 10:40 |
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Yeah it does.
When engineers are approaching (or any unit for that matter) you gotta love the right click feature (some artillery will fire a short range, curved shot that lands at about 2:00.
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| Engineers Rushing Tanks [message #-964041] |
Wed, 05 February 2003 04:47 |
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quote:
Originally posted by The Real Gizbotvas:
I was also under the impression timed C4 had a 30 second fuse.
It has? And i always started crying because it never blew up when right clicked...
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