Hilarious Unit Combo: Manhattan + Spider Mines

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by boltwarden, October 7, 2015.

  1. boltwarden

    boltwarden New Member

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    As the title reads, pretty silly and likely unintended unit combination tactic.

    TL;DR Groups of Spider Mines or presumably any small faster unit can push much slower ones around at movement speeds close too as fast(if not as fast as) that of the faster unit in a reasonably controllable direction! xP

    I came up with the idea by accident, just messing around in a Galactic War battle finishing off the enemies base with waves and waves of Spider Mines and Nano Swarms. Had a bit of a silly theme going, all sort of fire and forget units. The unnessecary escalation was to send in continuous waves of Manhattans these came as an after thought since they were taking to long to get there that the enemy base almost completely destroyed.

    I shifted to a more curious mindset and held off my attack. For some reason I decided I wanted to see how many spider bots it would take to set off a Manhattan. This is when I figured out the silly combo... So sadly.. direct friendly fire is not allowed in PA so I didn't get to figure out how many spider mines would do the trick. As the swarm overtook the manhattan however I see them comically pushing the Manhattan back at very close to their own movement speed. Wondering if I could use this to hurry my Manhattans' advance on the enemy base I gave the Spider Mines an assist order on the Manhattan. They plowed into it and began pushing it in fairly uniform direction at what would appear to be approximately their movement speed. Pretty ridiculous to watch xP
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