Think you’re decent at HW? Up for a challenge? Wanna mess with the meta-game?
After playing HW for the past four and a half years we’ve been thinking up ways of making matches more juicy; whilst playing 3v3 party games we came up with some pretty silly ideas and had some hilarious games as a consequence. I thought, why not get everyone doing this? Obviously, if you’re up against another decent team these are not advisable, but if you don’t recognize the team, try the following challenges and post your results here:
3v3 Challenge 1: Triple Arbiter, NO units, (suicide grunts for reactors ok, absolutely nothing else). This sounds ridiculous but we beat a team averaging around TS35 with this.
3v3 Challenge 2: Double Forge + Random all. The Random all player is the ONLY player who can make units, both Forge can build nothing but bases and feed their random player $$$
2v2 Challenge 1: Crevice, no temple/reactors. Abuse the abundance of reactors on the map, you are not allowed a temple as covy or any reactors as UNSC.
More challenges will follow if people take me up on this. I’ve posted this way too late to show any of my previous games, but I promise you we’ve tried these and won with them all 
The 3v3 challenges are actually a good way to speed through games against bad players. Problem is the combos are terrible (double Forge/Arby would be workable but still not as good as most) so if you get put against anyone of similar or higher skill you’re screwed.
This, OP, is awesome! Now I just need to get off my PC gaming and throw Wars back into the tray.
At least I’ve been playing Age of Empires II HD on PC.
RIP Ensemble.
How about:
3v3-Ghost rush.
3v3-Cyclops rush.
3v3 and 2v2-only unupgraded units, you can upgrade your leader ability.
3v3-trinity turtle (look it up on youtube)
The ghost rush is only going to work against someone who is playing their first game, and even then it’s a toss up. Cyclops rush is something you could actually win with, non upgraded units would be something that you could win easily enough with against someone bad, so long as you wrap the game up quickly. Trinity turtles are fun as hell, the best part is when you push out of the triangle and go to the other triangle. Last time we did that the other team just resigned =P
> Problem is the combos are terrible (double Forge/Arby would be workable but still not as good as most) so if you get put against anyone of similar or higher skill you’re screwed.
This thread isn’t called “Try Hard Combos You Can Rely On”… 