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SandDemon
28th Sep 04, 2:39 PM
Alright, I've devised a pretty sickening strategy. I really am debating on stating it here, but hopefully there won't be a strong counter for it....

Works best on 2on2 automatch where there is only 1 critical point.
You start of building 2 bonesingers and then 2 guardians.
First bonesinger builds your barracks, but the second teleports to the critical position and builds mines around it (yes, mines). Third builds plasma...now from here on out, it's pretty normal. You just expand slowly with 2 sets of guardians, get entangle, your far seer, etc.

But here's the key. You mine/tower/gate the critical spot REAL early in the game and use it as your spot to sit. 2-3 full guardian groups, mines, 2 towers and a healing waygate is a BITCH to kill early on.

And the last thing - add in pure nastiness and use the wraithtomb ability of your workers on their main buildings. Build a bonesinger, warp in, wraithtomb his main hall. Rinse, lather, repeat - shuts them down, seriously.

My only problem thus far has been 2 things - early marine rush (usually the towers eat them), but Chaos players are just beating me senseless with those Possessed SM. I mean, how can I handle those early? Dark Reapers aren't bad but are a bit expensive so early and I've seen 2 groups of them REAL early in the game. Anyone have a nice way of dealing with them?

Heard something about a Hold Stance bug....

Augustus
28th Sep 04, 2:42 PM
Wait... you are asking what a good eldar unit is vs melee units? Ever heared of the Seer Council??

SandDemon
28th Sep 04, 3:57 PM
Wait... you are asking what a good eldar unit is vs melee units? Ever heared of the Seer Council??

Ever put the seer council versus possessed marines with flamer backup? You can't kill them at all if they do it right, those things are nasty

EleventyOne
28th Sep 04, 4:05 PM
Someone suggested using Rangers to counter CSM's in the early game. Just break their morale, that's their main weakness.

Guillaume777
28th Sep 04, 4:49 PM
Entangle is probably the easiest way to stop those annoying Possessed SM. Just get tons of guardian squads and entangle them all. When all his Possessed SM are useless and his Commander can't melee beating chaos is surprisingly easy ;)

Also try dancing around so you don’t get hit by possessed sm.

deKboi
30th Sep 04, 3:11 PM
Rangers far back while u have banshees / SC fightin or dancin around, whe the morale is broken smash them up

Dalan
30th Sep 04, 3:27 PM
Dark repaers for any heavy infantry and scatterlaser platforms(can build right after the soulshrine)to mop up any normal infantry like scouts, cultists or orc