9
Jul
2009
The Anders Warthog rush (Part 2: Gauss)
Argh, isn’t it annoying? Well, depends what kind of player you are i guess; there are some who worship and never get tired of this tactic, they tend to dwell at the top of the leader boards where their win-after-win rush has rewarded them with a high TruSkill. Then there are some who just loathe and despise it, then there’s some in the middle who don’t really care.
This is a continuation from my previous Part 1 post about getting together ‘gunner’ Warthogs. This post is a moves on from that stage on to getting up to Gauss as fast as possible.
Going for Gauss holds a few key elements – timing, spamming and tasking. The ‘Gauss rush’ itself can be defend-able, but its the spamming (continual production of them) which is difficult, bordering on impossible to beat. Your goals are to get another base, advance up to tech 3 to research Gauss, have a big enough supply intake to spam the units.
Continuing from my Part 1 post, you should already have 1 base with 4 supply pads and a reactor, and a freshly built 2nd base which your using to build hogs. This process moves forward from that stage:
- Upgrade your first base, on which you can build your second and third reactors. Build supply pads on your new 2nd base as you’ll need the supply to afford the reactors while still building Warthogs.
- When your 2nd Reactor is done, hit ‘Grenadier’ while your other base continues to build Hogs.
- When you have a surplus 750 supply, build your 3rd reactor; you may have to wait a bit without queuing hogs to afford this. When that’s done, hit ‘Gauss Cannon’ upgrade and immediately recycle your third reactor.
- With this now spare slot, build a field armoury. If you have a spare slot on your second base, use this for field armoury to speed things up. When Field Armoury is complete, hit the ‘reserves’ upgrade. This allows the hogs to build much faster. When you have this upgrade, you can either recycle for a Supply Pad or keep it for future upgrades.
- By now, you should have 2 bases pumping out Gauss hogs like no tomorrow, and just enough supply to keep up with it.
The timing of your attack relies on how many Warthogs you want to send in vs. how early you want to do it. You can take 10 or so in as soon as Gauss is researched, hitting them early as you feed in fresh hogs, building up as you go. Or you can wait a bit and go all in with 20-30 hogs at once.
As repetitive as Gauss Hog rushing might seem, there are many variations and techniques you can use to do it in different ways; and you’ll probably find you’ll adapt what i’ve said in this post to suit your timing and to address each map and opponent your facing; adding a couple of Gremlins in to the mix for example, if your facing Scorpions or vehicle counters; but i hope you’ve found this a good starting point.
<< Read part 1 for starting your Hog rush
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