Build Order: The build order i use for a straight out brute rush is as follows:

Temple > Warehouse > Warehouse

As far as targets go i generally go for them in this order

Shield (if its still building) > Units > Turrets > Shield (After its built) > Unit Production (barracks etc) > Supply Pads / Warehouse > Main Base

Now once the attack is under way as soon as you feel you are either losing badly or winning (DO NOT if its fairly even as you need the resources for more brutes) build a shield and start evening out brutes with base production (more warehouses and tech out to either banshee’s or wraiths, its your choice. I choose banshee’s for cost/build speed)  and continue attacking as at this point the enemy would have probably switched to jackals/flamers.

Hope this basic overview helps out

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One vs One:

Now regardless of what opponent I face I will always build

Temple > Shield > Warehouse > Warehouse > Production

Now the reasons behind this build order are:

1. The shield nullifies any early game harassement/rush
2. While giving you a slow economic start you have your chopper and chieftain to gather crates quickly
3. If you are rushed and need to defend, you have your chieftain and the ability to produce brutes

Alot of people argue that going Warehouse then Temple is a better option, it can occasionally give you a slight economic advantage early on but it leaves wide open to a Anders hog rush/Arbiter suicide harass and so forth and so forth. Going Temple first gives you the Chieftain to gather crates with and the ability to build a shield very early on which will save your bacon 100% of the time in a early rush.

Two vs Two:

Now this will vary depending on your partner, but I will give you the order in which I use with my partner, Haradaku who plays Forge, and explain why and what changes are made versus common leader combinations.

Vs Dual Anders:

In this situation I will basically use the one vs one build upgrading my vortex instead of making a production first. The reasons are; if you spam hunters and both Anders have mixed hogs with air, your’e in trouble. Now I know most dual Anders will just hog spam you and go for gauss but not everyone. If they DO rush with relentless hogs, just vortex them allowing forge to pump out them Scorpions and then its game over.

Vs Dual Prophet:

In this situation we will be expecting a dual prophet rush, so again I will build using the one vs one strat but upgrade my hammer this time to help wear down the enemy resources while they beam away next to nothing on my health.

Nearly every single prophet player will upgrade Blessed Immolation before they go for a beam upgrade, thus a beam will do almost no damage to you. Your objective in this situation is to hold off the prophets allowing Forge to do a canister build and then its game over.

Vs Dual Arbiter:

This is probably one of the easiest combinations to fight against, all I do is

Temple > Warehouse > Shield > Warehouse

And upgrade my hammer. While you are doing this you want to send your Chieftain immediately to the Arbiters base. Now two things can happen here;

1. He will rage you doing about half your health away but wasting all his money stopping him from building shield/units/upgrades
2. He will run around trying to hit you while you kill off his warehouses crippling him

All you do is when you are attacking him, make a few engineers or give forge money to heal you, zap back when you are red health, heal up and go again, this will keep the arbiters non-upgraded and shieldless. Forge will roll down with 4-5 canister shell scorps and it will be game over.

Vs Arbiter and Anders:

This seems to be a popular combination at the time (I wonder why, cough cough) but i personally don’t see this being used once the patch has been released so i wont go into much detail explaining. All I would do is grab a vortex upgrade and keep anders hogs to a minimum and harass him to stop him getting gauss ignoring the arbiter and just zapping back when your health is low.

Three vs Three:

Personally I don’t play three vs three due to many people just trying to Cutter mac rush etc making an easy win but a boring match. But as a rule I would normally go for max tier hunters or max tier vampires depending if I were against more anders players or not.

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Chieftain Basics:

The biggest flaw with the chieftain compared to the other covenant is early on as he is pretty much a go-to-guy. His combat effectiveness isn’t that great, hes just someone to warp units around with, until you hit his first hammer upgrade when he becomes useful. I’m going to briefly list and explain what upgrades i go for using my chieftain and why and against who:

Anders: Now until the TU3 (Title Update 3) 99.9% of Anders players will hog, hog and more hog you so my first and only upgrade is the vortex a t1 vortex will shred a hog in 2-3 seconds

Forge: Against a forge player i will upgrade hammer first (for stun vs early tanks) unless scouting reveals anything else such as Infantry, Hogs, Air then i would go vortex

Prophet and Arbiter: Mostly i will go hammer as 90% of players will rage/beam your chieftain when hes in view the hammer increases his health by ALOT and an early beam/rage attack will do next to nothing to him while draining all of the opponents resources

Chieftain: Now this can be tricky, if he is going to brute rush (revealed by scouting) i do not upgrade but instead pump out jackals until he switches up to air/tanks etc depending what he does; infantry/air (VORTEX) or Vehicles (Hammer)

Cutter: Again, this can be difficult to choose and it comes down to what scouting reveals. The golden rule comes into play again;
Infantry/Air = VORTEX and Vehicles (HAMMER)

so a recap:

Infantry/Air = VORTEX

Vehicles/Spartans = HAMMER

Vortex and you:
When using the vortex every time you (hit/damage) a unit it costs you money, so the trick is to tap/boom the vortex over units costing you next to nothing to use this, example

When anders rushes you with a few hogs, just enable then finish your vortex (double tap y over the units) to cause explosion damage but costing you around 20 resources or less.

Hammer and you:
When using the hammer what I tend to do is try and lock down two separate units. You do this by choosing two targets close together, hitting one, then changing to the other and repeat. This removes two Spartans/tanks etc which is alot of firepower/population while your forces mop up the non-stunned units.

So this pretty much covers the very basic game play of using the chieftain. Keep an eye out for more guides/strats coming soon

-DaveInFlames

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Ok so first things first.

Ive been RTS gaming since Command and Conquer 1. I’ve played a plethora of games, some examples are WC3:TFT Kanes wrath and C&C3 Tibwars.

All of the strats i use are intending for an aggressive fast victory.
I have been and always will be an overly aggressive RTS player so if you want to play with big fancy armies and dont like rushing my posts aren’t for you so you may as well stop reading from here on.

Ok, basic overview of what I do and why I do it:

Temple first!

Now alot of people argue between WH first or Temple, i use Temple because of these points

• It gives you access to a shield
• you get your leader unit to gather resources

I then go Shield (2nd) WH (3rd) during this iam collecting resources with chieftain and chopper, after i have a further 100 from collecting i scout with chopper.

Now since these are 2v2 strats I will ALWAYS harass the UNSC players first. The units I build vary depending on what I discover in the scout example:

• hog build i will go : Hunters(with bonded shield upgrade w/ Brutes) and upgrade my vortex
• air unit build : Brutes w/ Grunts (use grunts Y ability to grenade the airpad)
• infantry build: Brutes w/ Jackals (brutes to focus fire troop production and supply pads and jackals to mop up flamers/marines
• vehicle build: Brutes w/ Hunters (bonded shield upgrade and hammer upgrade on chieftan, Brutes to focus fire pads and production hunters and chieftain to kill troops)

Now basically what you are doing is forcing your  opponent into going anti infantry and slow him down. This will, 99% of the time, force his team mate to come help him out. This gives your team mate the time to build (in my case forge builds canister shell tanks) and roll down finishing what I started.

From my experience this works 100% of the time. I have yet to have a problem with this strat

Even if the Arbiter runs around and rages ALL your units you have still wasted all of the arbiters supplies plus the damage to his team mate. As soon as your chieftain is low on health just recall him and get a heal from your UNSC team mate (if your both cov you should either both do this or have your team mate build banshees and get a few engineers for heals).

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