I put this together to have a concrete example to discuss how to defend against a decent Mercy rush.
The replay shows a 7-Mercy ACU attack at roughly 8 minutes into the game. This is the expected scenario that I'm going to be asking for defensive tips on.
you can do this with 4-5 mercies at 6:00 or if you time your COMM right you can go in and shoot his comm down 3k or 6k and then get him with 2-3 mercies. you only need 310 energy and about 5-6 mexes, and 8-9 engineers.
If the opponent doesn't know what you are doing by 3-4 mins, he simply has no chance.
Btw you can also get 3 gunships by 4:30, which also is very nasty if you walk in with the COMM aswell.
That's why I have been suggesting to go AIR factory first as of 3260.
ntropy
p.s if you wanna see some mercy rushes (any ranked map) watch some replays from "Gpgsmostwanted". He's specialised on using them.
And one from me: replay:Lo4_Cyrax/8-6-2007-9-7-55.SupremeCommanderReplay
This post has been edited by ntropy: Aug 8 2007, 14:10 PM
Well of course this doesn't work on the top 200, but anything beyond will have a hard time. Good players swarm their enemy pretty quickly, especially on open maps.
The replay shows a 7-Mercy ACU attack at roughly 8 minutes into the game. This is the expected scenario that I'm going to be asking for defensive tips on.