Halo Wars

[micspky1010]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Halo Wars is a massive bag of ass. Seriously, why the fuck is the unit limit so so low. Why would they put such massive restrictions on what an army trying to fight off alien attacks could use. I got to the Arcadia level, which is the fourth one, I think. Here i was faced with a shitty protection mission where the usual limit to 30 units is put to work against huge amounts of covenant troops, vehicles, aircraft and huge purple plasma bolts that come from nowhere, take off almost all of the health of each rescue ship and only start firing when you have about a minute left to go. I tried this level twice. Both times i had around 40 seconds left when the intensely powerful purple plasma "heavy turrets" went to town on the stupid bastard rescue ships. After this I got bored, as i felt the levels after this were surely not worth such a pointless, unfair battle with a superior enemy.

 

[Omnidum]

Have fun. [http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Fun]

 

[IsoNeko]

I liked Halo Wars. Especially that level. I made the error of going for ground forces, and I quickly payed for it by losing 2 ships. I was left with one ship, and 30 hornets covering the path from A to B. If you need more than 30 hornets (40 with an upgrade on your unit count). Then rethink your strategy.

 

[micspky1010]

You need ground forces around to cover the time taken to actually build up your base and get the air base though.

 

[Gormers1]

I have it and find it fun and challenging. I only bought it because a mistake a website made (they included 12 month gold in the special edition), but its pretty fun and challenging if you play on the higher settings.

 

[IsoNeko]

Use Forge, and some Turrets. That'll get your bases ready.

 

[Sindre1]

The demo realy bored me.
And I loved AoE2.

 

[D_987]

So you being bad at the game means the game is bad, huh?

 

[gamegod25]

Here's an idea: try it more than twice before you start whining.

Do you always give up so easily?

 

[Lukeydoodly]

Lols, you know you can heal those ships right? Also, #3 always goes down, so ignore it.

And you think thats tough? Try legendary. I never knew how hard it was till I played normal difficulty and saw the difference. It takes 5 MAC blasts to destroy a Scarab and fully upgraded hunters can kill anything!

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

The unit limit is so low because the game focuses on the combat, not base and army building.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

I find it slightly funny that you thought it would be a good RTS, then slightly sad that you don't keep trying at it. You know what a challenge is? Well if you didn't you do now. I'm sorry you can't win every level in a game in one go.

 

[Cortheya]

I loved it, it was fun and i took that level as a challenge, plus you can upgrade the number of units you can have

 

[phar]

Yep average 360 player who cant go 5 minutes without an explosion.

..but but but the game cover has Halo written on it!!

 

[Sketchy]

..but but but the game cover has Halo written on it!!

That means it's really good... right?

 

[Meado]

Yep average 360 player who cant go 5 minutes without an explosion.

That insult doesn't really work here, what with Halo Wars having explosions all over the place.

For the level, getting 8 units of ODSTs and putting them in the various pieces of cover around the map helps a lot. Park your 6 starting Hornets up between the two ships and move them where they're needed. Forge is your reserve, so use him to take out any Wraiths hitting your ODSTs from long distance.
Or you can bust out some Wolverines and park three of them by each ship. As long as you're healing them, they'll easily kill any Banshees while the NPC Spartans will keep jacking the Wraiths. Take five 'Hogs, Forge, and the Hornets and kill anything harassing the civvies.
And it's worth getting through these levels, even if it's just for the cutscene at the start of the final mission.
PS: The Halo Wars Arbiter is a badass.

 

[Pain_Inflictor]

Anyone else think the scarab is overpowered? Also, I wish the game had hotkeys.

 

[bad rider]

I really like the game a lack of units means online is about co-ordinating attacks with your team and co-ordinating defence with your team. While you can spend alot of cash developing tech so that you have uber powerful units that don't die easily (Tanks, ariel units and scarabs) Or you can spend cash on quickly replacable units ODST's and just overwhelm your enemy.
Halo wars is good because it's stratergys stop people being super turtle's(you can but it isn't that much use) or believing there team mates are expendable. Teamwork is important because of troop limitations if you loose a team mate in a 3v3 your loose one third of your army. Halo wars forces the player to rely on teamwork and on variations of stratergy's (mixing a small turtle defence moving to hit and runs/rush's in my case) and disencourages lone wolf style of play.

Anyway remember to use the spirit of fire regen, me and a friend thought the mision was impossible on legendary, then it was like hey what does this do?

Edit: Woot! only 5 achievements left to get!

 

[gamegod25]

Yep average 360 player who cant go 5 minutes without an explosion.

BOOM!!! XD