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[water10]

[thunderclap8]

I too tend to make a mad dash via ghost for the rockets.

It's probably a 50/50 split whether I survive the journey or not.

A warthog as backup could conceivably help the odds. Good call!

[krystyn]

Get the banshee in there, too, so in case THEY get the rockets, and blow up a coupla vehicles, you can pummel him with the banshee, and then hop out and pick it up and bring it home!

[ubersaurus]

A vehicle rush for the rockets on Coag is usually how that game starts for any team. The Sniper's main job is to try and find the enemy sniper and eliminate him, so that you can press an offensive once securing the explosives.

Nothing clears a base out faster than rockets. From there you just get someone to drop in, toss the flag to the roof, Mr. Rocket grabs it, teleports, and in theory, is picked up by a hog at the teleporter.

Keeping the rocket on defense is questionable, since chances are you'll blow yourself up in the process, and if they have anyone else with em, they can just grab the rockets on the way out.

[water10]

[krystyn]

I think any Coagulation game I've played it's been a rush with both Ghost -and- Warthog w/gunner dude. Ghost alone is just a death wish.

[Clayfoot]

[water10]

[krystyn]

Dude, I cannot tell you how many times I have been betrayed by the warthog driver.

/me glares at Jinx for just a second.

[ubersaurus]

[ubercado]

[Nova]

You guys have got crazy strategies these days. Back when I played a lot, we used to just run around at random while Angelo got the flag, and that was the way we liked it.

Well, maybe that was just me. BUT STILL! You guys seem to have all advanced a long way.

[SuperJerms]

I have seen two major strategies for Coagulation work.

1) The most obvious one - Rush for the rocket launcher, get the other team's sniper if possible, then either rush for the flag or send squads (the second of which keeps you from losing the weapons). Fight a war of attrition to get the flag back to the base. 10% success rate.


2) Shock n awe - Load up every vehicle and rush past the rockets to the opposite base. Ghost and Banshee can reach the base at the same time by boosting, and the rocket can't get the Banshee if it flies low. The Hog might drop a fella off to pester the rocket guy, or have a gunner. Either way, the Hog is to go hide in the cave or rocks at teleporter exit.

Back at the enemy base, the two guys line up over the roof hole. Whoever is on the far side of the hole from the teleporter drops down to the flag, looks straight up, jumps and throws the flag. The man who is on the roof looks down and holds X. As soon as the flag is thrown the roof guy will grab it, he should walk straight backward (don't even turn around) to the teleporter -- the hog is waiting for you at teleporter exit.

The beauty here is that a well-coordinated team can grab and be in the hog within three seconds. The enemy base is usually clear because the hog and ghost went rockets (four guys), one guy grabbed a sniper and is in the rocks getting ammo, and of the remaining three one usually will teleport to help with rockets or to attack the base...leaving only two defenders in the enemy base. Even if there were four in the base, though...the flag grabber takes less than a second to grab, and it's impossible to kill him without him getting at least one chance to throw. Provided both roof guys are lined up, he simply can't be killed fast enough to stop the strategy.

The only way to stop this strat is to either kill a vehicle or be lucky enough to have three on the roof and overpower one of the two who rush roof. Really, the Hog is the weak link here. If the driver can stay inconspicuous, he shouldn't have much to worry about. Again, the rocket can't get the banshee unless it flies too high, and the enemy rarely expects the strategy well enough to stop it.

In the rare event that the Hog dies en route home (rocket in the tailpipe), you still have the flag halfway there, and we all know how difficult it is to stop a flag that's halfway home in 8-player.

In 4-player, this strategy is pretty much unstoppable if the other guy rushes rockets.

[krystyn]

SuperJerms, that is very well-explained!

As for angelo, I think he's been hiding in blue base, as far from the grav lift as possible, and so our old strategies do not work, Nova. We've had to improvise.

[ROBOGriff]

I like the shock and awe method best. I was discussing with Clayfoot about the need to be able to still function if the opponent has all of the "power" weapons. In other words, don't have your team dependent on rockets!

That leads nicely into my reminder for..
Team pratice tonight (Wed) 8pm EST till bored

I suggest praticing the shock and awe, moving in at least pairs, and battlefield comm.

Cut down on the chatter people! Look for myself or Clayfoot tonight, maybe we will run smaller teams to pratice with.