your favorite/worst "OH SHIT" moments in RTS games
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Got another one! I was playing Total Annihilation. In this game you can only fire your bizarre, space age weaponry if you have available energy. So, if you're, say, attacking an enemy base while constructing several large overkilling death robots to mop up survivors, this is what will happen:
1. you will run out of energy
2. You will automatically cease construction of overkilling death robots.
3. EVERY SINGLE ONE of your soldiers guns, currently engaged in combat with enemy, will stop firing.
4. your shit will get ruined.
1. you will run out of energy
2. You will automatically cease construction of overkilling death robots.
3. EVERY SINGLE ONE of your soldiers guns, currently engaged in combat with enemy, will stop firing.
4. your shit will get ruined.
Seriously, every single time I play an RTS game, on any difficulty, in any mode. I just can't comprehend it all until my pathetic army and base are being decimated.
The original Dawn of War Campaign, the last mission was against a Demon Prince unit and all of my friends advised that I would need a massive force of tanks and other high tier units. I was slowly growing my army and pushing forward when the the demon appears, bypassing most of my defenses and assembled army! luckily it was more interested in destroying turrets instead of razing my base and was dispatched.
Another one was Chaos vs Guard, I was pushing when suddenlly I got hammered by: A Baneblade (pretty much screwed me over by its-self) Leman-Russ MBT's, several Basilisk artillery units, a sea of missile turrets and end tier infantry. They tore through my army and my defensive lines before being stopped. And of course when I had rebuilt my forces so had the Guard. I had to send in three large armies to wipe out their buildings and win the match.
Another one was Chaos vs Guard, I was pushing when suddenlly I got hammered by: A Baneblade (pretty much screwed me over by its-self) Leman-Russ MBT's, several Basilisk artillery units, a sea of missile turrets and end tier infantry. They tore through my army and my defensive lines before being stopped. And of course when I had rebuilt my forces so had the Guard. I had to send in three large armies to wipe out their buildings and win the match.
When playing command and conquer red alert 2, i was about to launch a nuke at the enemy base when my cat jumped on my keyboard and hit the "H" key. This jumped it back to my base a millisecond before i launched it. It destroyed my refinery and power plants. This left my base defenseless. I lost that match 
I never worry about those. King Tigers are slow as molasses on a plane during a hot summer's day, so I pretty much keep maneuvering any anti-armor infantry to the flanks.IBlackKiteI said:
That said, mine was coming up at a 2:1 disadvantage while fighting a chariot-heavy army in Rome: Total War. I play Julii, and extremely infantry-heavy, but I managed to scrape a win despite heavy losses.
One of my Velites got lucky and scored a killing shot on the enemy General, which made the Britons route.
I was there with my Guardsmen in the DoW2: Retribution Beta playing some 2v2. Things were going well and all of a sudden, out of goddamn nowhere a Baneblade show up. I don't know how it could have gotten there so quickly, it must have taken some kind of tactical geniu-
CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
Yeah, I haven't played WiC in a long time either. Shame that Sierra got eaten (yes, eaten) by Activison and WiC lost all it's support. The online play was about as balanced as a drunken fat guy on a unicycle riding thru the back half of a hurricane, tho.dragonhunter21 said:
I love that game. However there is nothing worse than when you are playing multiplayer and a krogoth start slowly walking towards your base.Fitzcaraldo said:
Playing Age of Empires III before the online went down. I send one scout out to check on the coast.... enemy fleet incoming. I sat there mouthing, "Oh I am fucked."
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2.
I was playing as elves, my army was 3 ents, 10 normal archer units with heavy armor and regular arrows, 6 battalions of swordmen, 4 with all upgrades, 2 with heavy armor, and Legolas.
The invading Goblin army was led by a level 7 Glorkil the Goblin King, consisted of 27 swordmen units, 15 archer units, 8 spiderling units, 3 spider riders, 9 cave trolls, 6 half-troll pikemen, and a fire drake.
OH SHI-!!
I was playing as elves, my army was 3 ents, 10 normal archer units with heavy armor and regular arrows, 6 battalions of swordmen, 4 with all upgrades, 2 with heavy armor, and Legolas.
The invading Goblin army was led by a level 7 Glorkil the Goblin King, consisted of 27 swordmen units, 15 archer units, 8 spiderling units, 3 spider riders, 9 cave trolls, 6 half-troll pikemen, and a fire drake.
OH SHI-!!
Any time while playing against Necrons in Dpawn of War: Dark Crusade. It's going ok, I'm capping a lot, facing only token resistance from his Lord, seemingly having his warriors confused and away from any direct fighting and I'm close to breaking the Obelisk on the relic so I can make my Land Rai SUDDENLY MONOLITH.
Followed by about 40 flayed ones.
Followed by about 40 flayed ones.
My biggest moment like that was the end of Supreme Commanders campaign. I'd taken the objective and was given the next objective: Defend the base at all costs.
Easy, I'm a turtler by nature. So I construct no less than 3 defensive lines, all bristling with defenses and tanks positioned between each line to slow the enemy. I also had my airforce standing by to attack, and my navy positioned off the coast to provide heavy fire support. There was no way anything was getting through.
Then the attack came. A huge army led by 3 freaking Monkeylord Spider Bots.
The monkeylords didn't even slow down at my defensive lines. They just plowed through, crushing everything under foot while all my bristling defenses merely annoyed them as they went past. I had to enact a scorched earth defense and nuked every square inch of land north of my base. Taking with all my units, my defenses, but most importantly, the Spider bots in a glorious blaze of nuclear fire.
And then the second wave came. And I was all out of nukes 0_O
Easy, I'm a turtler by nature. So I construct no less than 3 defensive lines, all bristling with defenses and tanks positioned between each line to slow the enemy. I also had my airforce standing by to attack, and my navy positioned off the coast to provide heavy fire support. There was no way anything was getting through.
Then the attack came. A huge army led by 3 freaking Monkeylord Spider Bots.
The monkeylords didn't even slow down at my defensive lines. They just plowed through, crushing everything under foot while all my bristling defenses merely annoyed them as they went past. I had to enact a scorched earth defense and nuked every square inch of land north of my base. Taking with all my units, my defenses, but most importantly, the Spider bots in a glorious blaze of nuclear fire.
And then the second wave came. And I was all out of nukes 0_O
halo wars, my only rts to date, got me when i had a massive army of ground units consisting of UNSC grizzly tanks and vultures i believe. from the distance comes the biggest army of hawks, andersens special aircraft upgraded from hornets and all that, and they beam across my forces, and aircrafts like that can't be hit by the grizzlies special attack, so they were basically useless and they preceded to blow me to kingdom come. my bases followed suit.
very horribly.
hardest. defeat. EVER.
very horribly.
hardest. defeat. EVER.
Lifting your barrack to build an add on in Starcraft II and watching while you do it the zerg player's timing push reaching at exactly that moment. Awesome. : (
Or a fleet of carriers or battlecruisers just shows up out of nowhere. Wouldn't happen if I didn't suck at the gamethough.
Or a fleet of carriers or battlecruisers just shows up out of nowhere. Wouldn't happen if I didn't suck at the gamethough.
Flying across the battlefield and noticing about 15 Roadies on their way to my stage in Brutal Legend.
Fucking Timurids. I mamged to beat the fuck out of them once, but then somemore turned up.Soviet Heavy said:
The bastards!