25
Jun
2009
Vulture fun with Cutter
A lot of people would argue that the vulture is UP, I haven’t made my mind up about this yet; sometimes they rule sometimes they let you down. There’s no doubt they are devastating in ‘packs’, on their own with other units they take a lot of micro work to get them going.
Last night i had a spate of matches against largely Covenant players, mostly Prophets and Arbiters, I decided to go Vulture crazy on them. Cutter’s a good leader to go for this. If you lose a vulture you’re down 6 or 12 pop immediately as they take up a lot of capacity, so once you have ODST charged with Cutter this is a godsend. Losing a vulture or 2 in the middle of a fight isn’t such an issue, you can deploy all your ODST’s to reinforce the fight. The MAC cannon is also a great tool if you see the dreaded sight of 8 Wolverines roll up under your Vultures.
Where was I? Ah yes, playing mostly Covenant. As you know the only real anti air they have is the Vampire, which is a great unit with its stasis drain, but it is extremely weak. I put out 8 Wolverines with Dual Launchers to combat this inevitable counter to my vultures, and in fact all my team was going with air units (Banshees and Hawks), so there’s no doubt the only unit the other side could really use effectively was the Vampire.
I popped my 3 Spartans in the Wolverines and sent them ahead of my Vultures. I was playing 2 Prophets who had (fortunately) upgraded to becoming an air unit and useless against the Wolverines.
The game went on, I would pop my Vultures over the hills of Fort Deen and barrage their base, quickly followed up by the Wolves in anticipation of their Vampire response; when they came, they fell to the ground and the kills just racked up. Until this game i had never seen a 13 star Wolverine with Spartan, and my other 2 weren’t far behind.
It was a great combo, the Vultures tore up the bases and if i saw Arbiter come in to play he’d get a Barrage too, knocking him over in seconds. Scarabs weren’t a big problem either; the Wolves would take care of the engineers, and a 4x MAC blast and Barrage from the Vultures would destroy them no problem.
I had killed almost 70 vampires in this game, and a couple of Prophets. The Wolverine is certainly a great anti-air. They did attempt to send in Hunters, but it was just a case of pulling my Wolverines out of the fight, and the Vultures would tear them up.
This game got me my Brigadier badge, wahey!
Thanks for the vulture idea it really works its getting me on to general rank