September 21, 2009

Great Firing Squad Deploy

Filed under: General — Mawhrin-Skel @ 2:40 pm

On my own personal wars I’m getting a lot of interesting battles.  The other day I was attacked by another player form Death Squadron, with a fleet far greater than mine. He isn’t an experienced player and I got a massive victory. However, I was very afraid to loose the battle when I saw his deploy. He made a great firing squad deploy:

As you can see, he has 6 long range units on the six central squares. And he can easily put into play the kamikaze menace on the sides of the board (as he did). When fighting against a firing squad we are usually left without the front cannon fodder. Having kamikazes heady to strike is a great option for heavy and quick damage.

The other great aspect of this deploy, is the Doomer combo behind the Firing Quad units. Normally, we use medium and fast combat units to break the firing squad. And that types of units have low range, meaning that they could easily become a pray of the Doomer. This was a great Firing Squad deploy and my opponent could easily get the win if he played it well. He could have destroyed my medium units with the Kamikaze or with the Doomer. Luckily for me, I won, and this is just another example of how to break a Firing Squad.

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My name is Pedro Santos and my nick on the game is Mawhrin-Skel. I'm one of the developers of Orion's Belt. You can see my personal blog at psantos.zi-yu.com.

9 Comments

1. kamis are hard to hide for long, but he could and should have used them on the worms at start, at around round 6 I think =)
   Cheers

   Comment by reborned — September 21, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

2. OMG! You really kick ass!If I saw a fleet like that against me,I would probably give up in that minute,but you stood and fought like a brave.Great victory!

   Comment by stoneage fan — September 21, 2009 @ 4:06 pm

3. Good battle
   Two things i would have done different if i was in your opponents shoes.
   First, I don’t like to have Kamiz split that much at the start, have one big group and one maybe two small groups. It is alot easier to protect one square than 4.
   Second, Doomers are in bad position here. The owner must take one turn to move the heavy unit blocking them in then another turn to move the doomer, what is the point. As you saw they are just a sitting duck where they were.

   Comment by AD420 — September 21, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

4. @stoneage fan never give up! Depending on your opponent you can get the win or you can induce major damage. Just lust a game against reborned, that he had won since the beginning, but I still made him suffer heavy losses.

   Comment by Mawhrin-Skel — September 21, 2009 @ 6:22 pm

5. ya I lost 150 spiders and some 25 eagles and lights ofc, but now time to defend and rebuild the fleet xD

   Comment by reborned — September 21, 2009 @ 6:30 pm

6. And 50 kami!

   Comment by Mawhrin-Skel — September 21, 2009 @ 6:32 pm

7. ya 60 something to be more exact! =)

   Comment by reborned — September 21, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

8. Next battle will be different

   Comment by Danceman — September 21, 2009 @ 8:03 pm

9. maw’s got a price tag of 1000 orions now 0.o omg if only I saw this earlier pyro also xD

   Comment by reborned — September 21, 2009 @ 8:48 pm

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