Has anyone tried this?
It’s not effective, they’re too costly and slow to produce. They can be good supports to a rush however
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> It’s not effective, they’re too costly and slow to produce. They can be good supports to a rush however
That’s what I figured. I use colony. As my rusher. But man some things need worked out with him.
Been rockin Pav again. Love that guy.
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> > It’s not effective, they’re too costly and slow to produce. They can be good supports to a rush however
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> That’s what I figured. I use colony. As my rusher. But man some things need worked out with him.
> Been rockin Pav again. Love that guy.
I’ve seen high level players use Goliath/Skitterer combos to great success if you want to try that.
Attaching skitterers to Goliaths is effective, the health buff lets them take sniper fire or hits from suicide grunts. However, rushing with skitterers alone is a bad plan; they’re really weak when not attached to something.
Skitter jump pack brutes. With Trox.
I bet that combo is good.
Not viable vs players, or any AI past Normal difficulty, They have such low HP that using them as core troop is hopeless . But if you want to have some fun try this custom mode.
1 heroic Colony ally & yourself vs 1 cutter and 1 Johnson or 2 cutters.
Remove fog of war and add the skull that lets you train troops 50% faster & the skull that increases Supply gain.
Snatch as many main bases as you can at the start to make skitters as fast as possible, leave one for your AI colony if you want. You are the skitter swarm that backs up your Colony and its looks really cool if you have Johnson out there. On normal he doesn’t overwhelm you so badly with mechs so seeing just one mantis using mainly skitter is like vs a hero troop and makes for some cool looking battles.
Gotta d some damage or at least keep upgrade up for tect 3 tho. Skitters arnt gonna do much to stop 5 scorpions or 5 colossus on their own without your or you Ally AI’s support.
Skitters are a support unit so this rush obviously wouldn’t work. As everyone else said Skitter/Golaith works very well ^
Skitter on Grunts is surprisingly scary and putting them on Hunter Captain (Is a must do) makes him very tanky and deal a bit more damage.
Oh and Skitter Scarab is very nice for the health buff