halo wars definitive edition walkthrough

(Phoenix missiles do reduced damage to reavers and wolves). I will admit that wolverines are not very strong but they can beat mass vultures now after the vulture nerf against AA units. Mass wolverine and gales or mass vultures and gales.

If you are unable to stop them early, you have two options. Thus you want to push hard, kill the few vultures that they have before they can successfully mass them, and use your spartan to hijack vultures if you are a leader that has a spartan. Even if you are unable to kill the detect units in time just a few reavers will do massive damage while the shield is still up.Īs UNSC: Although combat tech marines can still counter vultures in smaller numbers, once a critical mass of vultures is reached it will be unadvisable to make them. If you want to win a base trade scenario I would advise leaving at least two reavers on hold ground under the cloak + shield of your bases and targeting any detect unit manually when they push. Cloaking gens are another very important tool mass air players that are dumb enough to forget a detect unit will be utterly incapable of killing your bases. With the rest of your pop I advise making wraiths/locusts for basekill and a few engineers for support ( ALWAYS USE THE ENGI BUBBLES THEY ARE OP). They are so effective in fact that you probably won't need more than 10 to counter full pop banshee/hornets.

Against late game banshees/hornets, you have even more tools at your disposal to counter air than UNSC. Grunts are even cheaper to spam out so you will have no problem out-pumping a t2 air player. AA turrets are very strong for UNSC and they will allow you to win base trades against mass air.Īs Banished: Follow the same strategy early but with grunts. Additionally you will want to go AA turrets to prevent a counterattack. Yes, this army composition can be a bit squishy but with proper splits most leader powers won't have enough of an effect to allow for air to win.

If the opponent waits until t3 to swap, you should go combat tech marine ball + nightingales. With this numerical advantage, you want to push early and hard prevent them from even coming close to a critical mass. If you can scout or predict a t2 air rush you can pump out marines significantly faster than they can pump out banshees or hornets. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.Īs UNSC: If you suspect or scout the opponent and know that they are going to quichtech (prioritize upgrading gens in order to upgrade to tech 2 at the cost of not producing many units t1 or getting solid map control), marines are your friend. Preface: I am writing this guide with the knowledge and experience of a champion level player.

Halo wars definitive edition walkthrough