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My Basic Chieftan Build

Ok, in this post I intend to explain a generic build for 2v2 and explain a little about who i am and what I am about

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).

other interesting posts

• Map Guide: Exile
• Introduction to ‘Turtle’ strategy
• The Anders Warthog rush (Part 2: Gauss)
• Getting Veteran Stars on units

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