2007-09-20, 03:07:48
I don't think any players have had success rushing an Airship+ against me. Sure in one-on-one combat, creeps involved or otherwise, the Airship+ will have the advantage against a Helicopter with an Iron Hull/6,000g+ of weapons, but if the Helicopter player has good foresight your Airship+'s strong points are nullified, and during your own cooldowns will most likely give you a hard time with superior firepower. The greatest difference is he screws himself over in the endgame because he can't farm gold from creeps and probably can't kill me. If I'm outclassed across the board (tank, weapons, items) all I have to do is avoid the tank in question and farm gold to victory. In most cases I'm only outclassed because I'm 4,000 gold from a Frost Robot or something. 8)
Here are examples of how I usually deal with an overpowering opponent, whether we're searching for kills or one of us is attacking a base.
Opponent uses nuke
I flee and heal before he can land a second (Or in the case of a low level superior tank, hopefully get rid of both ability threats while taking precautions to avoid getting scrapped by his actual weapon.)
Try to encourage him to use his other (likely present) nuke.
I flee and heal.
I fly in and beat him up if he doesn't flee in advance, farming gold in the process. Meanwhile he's generally restricted to farming minimal creeps with one or two minor weapons.
If he's actually trying to push or something, I land any nukes I can without placing myself in danger of death, maybe a few weapons here and there, and go heal. Then I go back, smash him up some more... The result is if he keeps trying to push, especially at 50%- health he'll pay me off, if he flees I've successfully defended the base and increased the time I have to clobber the opposition with gold.
Here are examples of how I usually deal with an overpowering opponent, whether we're searching for kills or one of us is attacking a base.
Opponent uses nuke
I flee and heal before he can land a second (Or in the case of a low level superior tank, hopefully get rid of both ability threats while taking precautions to avoid getting scrapped by his actual weapon.)
Try to encourage him to use his other (likely present) nuke.
I flee and heal.
I fly in and beat him up if he doesn't flee in advance, farming gold in the process. Meanwhile he's generally restricted to farming minimal creeps with one or two minor weapons.
If he's actually trying to push or something, I land any nukes I can without placing myself in danger of death, maybe a few weapons here and there, and go heal. Then I go back, smash him up some more... The result is if he keeps trying to push, especially at 50%- health he'll pay me off, if he flees I've successfully defended the base and increased the time I have to clobber the opposition with gold.