Hey all,
Just something fun I've been trying over the past few days on some pub servers - only three simple steps.
1) Place a shade somewhere on your infestation close to an enemy position or in a strategic location (try to tuck the shade away into a corner or against the wall).
2) Build a shift in the middle of your egg spawning location at the hive.
3) Echo eggs from your hive(s) to the cloaked location for a constant stream of aliens seemingly appearing out of no-where.
Out of the dozens of games placed since 250 - I haven't seen a single other commander try this so I figured I'd post here.
A few tips if you're going to try this - be sure to place your shifts at base in the middle of your egg spawning area, as to allow for the greatest chance to have an egg spawn within the range of the "echo" command. Also, I tend to hotkey both the hives (1,2,3, etc) and the shifts (as 5,6,7, etc, one per hive). This makes it easy to quickly echo eggs around the map AND if there are no eggs available, you can click the hive (e.g. 1) then spawn eggs and quickly click the hotkey'ed shift at that hive (e.g. 5) to echo a newly spawned egg.
One other note - I usually do not place crags or shifts at the "forward base shade" location to discourage friendlies from returning and possibly revealing its location. These other forward structures get placed at a close-by location.
The ability to place both shades / shifts immediately (due to 250 changes) makes this strategy much more viable than in 249.
Just something fun I've been trying over the past few days on some pub servers - only three simple steps.
1) Place a shade somewhere on your infestation close to an enemy position or in a strategic location (try to tuck the shade away into a corner or against the wall).
2) Build a shift in the middle of your egg spawning location at the hive.
3) Echo eggs from your hive(s) to the cloaked location for a constant stream of aliens seemingly appearing out of no-where.
Out of the dozens of games placed since 250 - I haven't seen a single other commander try this so I figured I'd post here.
A few tips if you're going to try this - be sure to place your shifts at base in the middle of your egg spawning area, as to allow for the greatest chance to have an egg spawn within the range of the "echo" command. Also, I tend to hotkey both the hives (1,2,3, etc) and the shifts (as 5,6,7, etc, one per hive). This makes it easy to quickly echo eggs around the map AND if there are no eggs available, you can click the hive (e.g. 1) then spawn eggs and quickly click the hotkey'ed shift at that hive (e.g. 5) to echo a newly spawned egg.
One other note - I usually do not place crags or shifts at the "forward base shade" location to discourage friendlies from returning and possibly revealing its location. These other forward structures get placed at a close-by location.
The ability to place both shades / shifts immediately (due to 250 changes) makes this strategy much more viable than in 249.