^ Yes, that has been a strategy for the majority of RTS games, mostly AOE and CnC.

 

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Best of Wishes Sparhawk

If they end up about as strong as the titans in AoM, then the limit should be one, but they need an effective transportation system - i.e. so they are not stuck in a valley and can move over mountains and rivers

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Sanghehli:

If they end up about as strong as the titans in AoM, then the limit should be one, but they need an effective transportation system - i.e. so they are not stuck in a valley and can move over mountains and rivers

Their special ability can be to talk over any cliff. but they have weaker back armor to balance it out.

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if scarabs are anything like Hierarchy Walkers in Universe at War, then yes, scarabs max limit should be two

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Exitus acta probat: the result justifies the deed, or, more commonly, the ends justify the means

ooooh how does that apply to the Halo Wars campaign?

^ Heirarchy walkers get dropped easily if you know what your doing.  But lets not forget that the walkers have a reload time on their weapons.  The scarab on the other hand is a solid beam of destruction that takes like 1-2seconds to kill something where as the walkers have to get several shots of on a unit to kill it.  Or they can just step on them :)

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Aesendant Justice:

^ Heirarchy walkers get dropped easily if you know what your doing.  But lets not forget that the walkers have a reload time on their weapons.  The scarab on the other hand is a solid beam of destruction that takes like 1-2seconds to kill something where as the walkers have to get several shots of on a unit to kill it.  Or they can just step on them :)

Hope you can crush tier 1 tanks with it, and hunters can rush tier 1 infantery.

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The scarab will probably be weak if you can mass produce and the Hunters will probably have the beam version weapon.

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Balance conveys the point of having two equally powerful forces, so that doest necessarily mean that you should only have a few scarabs or one, it just means that when you do have a few scarabs, your opponent should have an equally powerful amount of scorpion tanks, or at least had the opportunity to have built them, balance also doesn't mean that if your opponent sucks, then you shouldn't be hindered to it.

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James T.:

    Hold up on the hunters, back to the scarabs.

A big part of an RTS game is to not let your enemy go unopposed long enough to build up a massive army. The Covies' weakness would be early in the game, a rush attack would stop the covies from building a scarab.

just an idea. 

they could also rush us cause making spartans would take forever, maybe as long as the scarab.

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343Mccutcheon_spark:

James T.:

    Hold up on the hunters, back to the scarabs.

A big part of an RTS game is to not let your enemy go unopposed long enough to build up a massive army. The Covies' weakness would be early in the game, a rush attack would stop the covies from building a scarab.

just an idea. 

they could also rush us cause making spartans would take forever, maybe as long as the scarab.

Spartans probs have special ability to board scarabs and destroy them.

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stoned emo:

343Mccutcheon_spark:

James T.:

    Hold up on the hunters, back to the scarabs.

A big part of an RTS game is to not let your enemy go unopposed long enough to build up a massive army. The Covies' weakness would be early in the game, a rush attack would stop the covies from building a scarab.

just an idea. 

they could also rush us cause making spartans would take forever, maybe as long as the scarab.

Spartans probs have special ability to board scarabs and destroy them.

that would depend on if the spartans are meant to be the opposite of hunters or scarabs, cause in the demo to show that humans had a weapon against the scarabs they called in MAC rounds. so maybe spartans are meant to be the enemys of hunters.

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Restlessness You will read this fic.
Blood Ties its a sweet fic.

343Mccutcheon_spark:

stoned emo:

343Mccutcheon_spark:

James T.:

    Hold up on the hunters, back to the scarabs.

A big part of an RTS game is to not let your enemy go unopposed long enough to build up a massive army. The Covies' weakness would be early in the game, a rush attack would stop the covies from building a scarab.

just an idea. 

they could also rush us cause making spartans would take forever, maybe as long as the scarab.

Spartans probs have special ability to board scarabs and destroy them.

that would depend on if the spartans are meant to be the opposite of hunters or scarabs, cause in the demo to show that humans had a weapon against the scarabs they called in MAC rounds. so maybe spartans are meant to be the enemys of hunters.

Probabely, you might need air strikes and MAC rounds to take them down.

Uber spartan macro, throwing plasma nades, haha!

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cheap, simple, and fun. My kinda way to win!!!!!!!!!!!

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Blood Ties its a sweet fic.

343Mccutcheon_spark:

cheap, simple, and fun. My kinda way to win!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, i spam 2 unit types, one good against air one good against building and tanks, just run the infantery over, just egnore them usualy thought, lol.

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There is most likely going to be two scarabs (like the earlier posts say.) And is the UNSC were to have a large machine like that, I say it would probably something new never heard of before or an elephant like in 3 but with a large cannon on the back- BOOOOM!

                                            

 -just a thought.

 

 

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