Recently, in a team battle game of Dawn of War 2, I was saddled against two enormously stupid team mates. The other team was comprised entirely of Tyranids. Luckily for me, two of them were fairly stupid.
I was tasked with holding the center point by default. My team routinely let the defenses here collapse leading to a loss of a power node repeatedly. In order to fortify the area, I placed a triple set of turrets that covered the most obvious approaches and simply hoped the enemy was going to be dumb enough to come in that way, or at least that, when mowing through my team, I'd have the opportunity to react. One of the turrets was designed for anti-vehicle (or rather, anti carnifex) duty. The remainder of my force consisted of a venerable dreadnought, a predator, my techmarine, a tactical squad a scout squad and a devestator squad.
Unfortunately for me, rather than assaulting the strong point, the player to my south folded to a passing effort by a few stealth units. To be fair, had they not run they would have been annihilated but then that is what you get for playing like a retard the entire game and having nothing but scores of infantry and no detectors to your name. The south point thus fell to the enemy leaving my team with two. It should be noted that, when I seized the center point and tipped the balance back in my team's favor we only had 5 tickets left (literally mere seconds from losing) so if either the north point or my own point fell, losing the game was almost assured.
Shortly after the south point fell, literally hundreds of lesser Tyranids and Warriors supported by three hive tyrants came rushing in. The tyrants, being immune to supressive fire, simply rushed against the fire from the turrets and engaged them in melee. I sent my dreadnought into the midst of around a dozen (now supressed) squads of the lesser tyranids while the remainder of my force poured fire into their ranks. The Tyranid losses were staggering to be sure but eventually my dreadnought was brought low. Even with the feeble attacks it was taking the numbers were simply too great. By this point the Hive Tyrants had been killed but before dying had destroyed a the anti-vehicle and one of the anti-infantry turrets. The remainder of the Tyranid army, surged forward. Even though it was vastly depleted there didn't seem to be any notable loss in their numbers.
Eventually, the devestator squad was killed leaving me with my tank, my techmarine, a single turret and a badly hurt marine squad. I noted that my team mate from the north had finally pulled his head out of his ass (this battle had already lasted several minutes at this point) and the one recently routed was also seemingly moving to support. While the player at the north point was bringing enormous resources in the form of a pair of chaos predator tanks, he had no sooner left before Genestealers began taking the point he had been idly defending for most of the game. Instead of sending a cursory force against them to drive them off, he turned his entire army around. Much to my disappointment, rather than helping in the middle the guy who was routed in the south started marching that way himself.
At this point I had finally driven off the remains of the first assault. Unfortunately the guy heading south was attacked by the same handful of tyranids that drove him off the first time and he ran again, having not learned a lesson about having a detector unit. Meanwhile, the guy to the north was putting up a heroic resistance by which I mean he also failed to have a detector and had genestealers running through his ranks causing fairly catastrohpic carnage but at least they had stopped seizing the point. He eventually drove them off but rather than taking some throw away unit and having them capture the point he then turned around and marched straight back to his base.
Having recovered enough to put up another turret and replacing my devestator squad, I hoped that the earlier losses would be enough to ensure a weaker second wave. My allies once again teamed up and started marching to the southern point. As they were passing my defensive perimeter, the second wave arrived and this time it was lead by the tyrants and three Carnifexes. This time the tyranids were smart enough to rush the point directly while sending units against all my guys. So, I used my last defensive option and called orbital artillery at point blank range. This halted the loss of the point and the battered survivors of my army continued dumping rounds into the plentiful targets. Making a stand at this point was suicidal to say the least but I had hoped the other two would turn their formidable armies (even if stupid they still had gobs of firepower at their disposal) north to assist. Instead they kept marching and ran into the same group of genestealsers as before and, rather than standing and fighting, they simply turned and ran.
If I could punch people through the internet, I'd have done it to them.
