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yeah, pretty cool strat. i hate scouts because they fire once an hour though, lol.
scouts stink.

oh gee, now you have to kill me with it, in other words YOU HAVE TO SHOW IT TO ME! HEHEHHEE

Were you drinking when you came up with this one, or was your opponent drinking and he let you get away with it so you were impressed with it?

*Tries to retrain himself, don't flame, it's bad*

Ok...

Well, the scout rush is a great strat despite the comments of a certain other forumer. It works jsut like the skirmy rush of aoc and annoyomous decribed how it works very well. Don't listen to anyone who tells you this strat sucks, it don't if you use it right.

Ok. I can see this working on space mass or other low food maps...

But could u please explain to me whether or not it is still effective in other sits.?

Example. On a normal-good food map I consistently go T3 in 16-17 min. You are saying attack with scouts at 25 min. That is giving me 8 min. to attack you at which time I will see these scouts being massed and be all over them with air...

Ideas?

zn_DG_KhaleeLah

Why not just use troopers? Or maybe throw in a few grenade troopers which will outrange the enemy command center until they finish war center research.

i must testify that the scout rush DOES work! Donkey and Kyp were experimenting with it and tried it against us and it killed us lol

although we knew they were gonna try something, i wasnt expecting this scout rush strat and was going fast t3. i was almost at t3 when the first group of what was to become MASSED scouts arrived and started shooting up my workers. i only managed to put up a couple of towers, but my econ was totally disrupted and eventually shut down. the scout groups were far to numberous,fast and nimble. their speed and numbers is what helped them make minced meat of my workers. no way i could have made enough troopers becuase my res income was stopped completely. finally all 3 enemy scout groups combined to destroyed our CCs and buildings lol

so this is wat happens when hit by a scout rush while going fast t3. maybe if someone built up a military during t1 or t2, with an intention to early rush, may have faired better. but what i saw, i really doubt it. also, these guys are VERY good players to begin with. so good luck going up against it. im gonna try to see if i can execute this strat for the heck of it now lol.

hopefully they will fill us in on their eventual findings of their experiments

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wow, that sounds awesome, Qwerty. I gotta try it! So, what were you drinking when you wrote this?

seriously though, a scout rush sounds cool.

Hey Qwert if ya can send me a rec of this.....ZM me and I'll give ya my e-mail...

I have posted about this, but wasn't expecting it to happen to me the other day and got creamed by it.

I was late getting to T2, and had a player show up with about 12 speeder bikes. They targeted my carbon gatherers.

He had my workers outnumbered two to one. I tried to attack with the workers even though I was outnumbered and lost all of them.

I had a larger gathering operation, so I towered there. I was gathering ore early, for no particular reason, so I had to put two towers there, and two over my ore.

He had taken 6 carbon gathers, and continued to flood in more speeder bikes. He then attacked the ore minors.

I had six there, and tried to garrision them, but the speeder bikes trapped them in, and prevented them from getting into the towers before they were dead.

They left to attack my partner, and I was mortally wounded, in T3 with 20 workers left.

If only I'd garrision my workers a little earlier, got elevation advantage and made troopers instead of towers, then maybe I could have beat it. Knowing what I know now is a little late don't you think.

Wow. I have tested this strat about 5 times and its gotta be my fav, mainly because its so fun watching 60scouts rip up your enemy's econ while he protests that scouts suck, and they shouldent be allowed to wipe out troopers so easily.
I even had one guy make fun of me when he saw 20 scouts go for his carbon.
I could imagine the look on his face when 40 more attacked his ore, nova and farms as well.
Hey donkey, I've just got one question.
You said to wait till you have 100+ scouts(25 mins)
I tried attacking with 35-50(around 18-19 mins)
It seemed to work well to, as long as I kept up a constant flow of scouts from 4 mech factories after sending the 35-50 in.
I was wondering if this is a bad way of doing it, for some reason I'm not aware of.
Thanks for the great strat.

I said it is possible to get 100 scouts in 25 minutes. However, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't attack before 25 minutes. I attack with the first scout i have, and send all the scouts I make into the enemy's base. Basically, what I'm doing is massing scouts in the enemy's base, harrassing his economy at the same time while I'm building up a army large enough to kill his CC.

this i gotta try

well, i just experienced this rush first hand today. holy heck did it work well, even though my team eventually beat qwerty, its only cause i got T3 first and made many strike mechs. Hard to counter this when they are fully upgraded too.

It's easy to pump scouts from 2 or 3 mech factories, get some war center upgrades, and keep making workers all at the same time, that alone, the ability to rush so well with almost no economic let down, makes this strat work well.

aahh i watched qwerty in a co-op game...this thing kills.

top?

So, anyone with the expansion, does this strategy still work?

i have done this actually a few times...ive made them quick FU at T2 and sent them to enemy base to screw around with him while i t3 and whipped them

this strat has never worked for me period, expansion or none, but ive only tried it twice, so im probably just messing up on silly errors

i tried it too vs the comp. got about 25 scouts then couldnt resist sending them lol.