Shrapnel Mines... Useful?

Games Halo Wars Series
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The new hero meta has changed T1 play for the better in my opinion, buying your Hero and upgrading it can put you around 500 power away from getting T2. And so I’ve noticed not many people go for the scout upgrades early, which means detection is limited to Engineers and Snipers.

So today I tried going for Shrapnel mines and grunt Spam, it is an extra 300 power spend but after you get to kill their Hero you pretty much get your investment back.

This is a clip of one of today’s games, I pulled this off in two more games against Warlord.

Pros:
-Node control.
-Can fight engineers easily.
-Can fight scouts with good micro.

Cons:
-Heavy setup required.
-More power.
-Waste against detection.

Thought I’d share this and see what your thoughts are.

2

Mines in this game would only be useful if they were strong enough to nearly 1 hit kill any unit or hero.

3

Yes shrapnel is more important now.
May I ?
My basic Atriox/Decimus/Colony opener. (without micro lol)

With Atrox I’m thinking of not going Fortification at all and use Counter Measures with jet packs.

4

I’m going to have to try and test this out, I’ve never seen a reason to but this seems good!