When Choose the Demoliser?

[jonjon]

Mines are rather ineffective when they don't kill cuz the enemy got hull and when the annoying helis ONLY fly above the woods. I must lay mines on the back on the CP, cuz some players are quite adept at avoiding mines and flying around the CP to conquer it.

But mines have a serious weakness against mine defuse and radar, and is only good when not being detected or neutralized by high hp vehicles of defusing. Also mines are only defensive, so if your team is good at pushing enemies, mines becomes a waste and useless tactic. It is a good counter against aggressive players and make enemies fear the mines. High psychological fear factor. Trespassing through minefield give the game a special dimension ^^

I usually skill artillery lv1, if there are enemy tinkers. I don't skill jet wave, but tank cannon and mines instead since the demolisher already has quite little firepower.

Yeah, like I said I used them for defense purposes only. I don't deliberately pick a spot - I make my placements immediate and inconspicuous. If you're right there, just place it. I try not to waste time. The biggest misconception with mines is that some use it for killing only. (unless you're a trader, you can invis - place a 2500 mine in the most bastard spots). Mines shouldn't play a big role, just a part role so that if people do find your mines annoying, they tele back to base and waste gold to get a radar or mine diffuse. This is why I always upgrade my artillery first.

I don't like it when people use tinkers. On my team or theirs. I discount it as a bad strategy and I encourage both teams not to use it. The only time where I saw someone use tinker well was equipped with a steel hull and was able to lay towers forward and progressively. The idea of being a tinker is to farm and make bucket loads of gold while keeping people back. But as soon as your towers are destroyed, you're pretty much useless. When I'm demolisher, as soon as I see someone place a tower, I artillery it.

I played against 2 reasonably skilled players last night and was able to hold both with demolisher. Came off with 9 kills - 1 death (but I am on dial-up cuz I'm house sitting lmao!) before people started upgrading. Then we lost because 3 of my team members were first/second timers