So I just had my first match where my teammate left as soon as it began. At first I was just like: “screw it, I’m going to lose anyway” and just started racking up nearby bases and resources to prepare for the inevitable attack since it was 2v1.
But they never came.
In about ten minutes of prep time I had taken four bases and they only focused on getting two of the points.
So after I realized I had enough points to start making a Gauss hog army, I sent my beginning group out as sacrifice to take over some points, but I’ll be -Yoink!-, they managed to sneak away with three of the points before the enemy team caught up with them.
By then, my hog army was ready and I zerg rushed the remaining control points, cutting them off (before I began they already had me at around 50%) and I managed to hold them back with what felt like an unending army of gauss hogs and wolverines.
It eventually hit the point where I had 4 points and they had 1 after a brief back-and-forth and it was about 10% to 13% (in my favor) so I scavenged what I had and threw everything at one their main bases and with the time it took for them to kill all of my units, game over: I won with only about 11% of my ticket counter. Against two players. On my own. And I suck at RTS’.
This is the kind of tactical shenanigans I expect from Halo Wars and it felt good.