Problem with "The Third Kind"

[skull13]

As anyone who has played this level may know, the Futurewinians are to kill the defenders powering the shield to the main base. However, you can make your base impregnable by killing them before this occurs. The solution is to simply change the color of the shield on the island, or deny the defender's armor.

[Greeba]

This is well documented and due to be fixed, fear not.

[Phevnil]

I never noticed this (I just played three rounds of the third kind in a row) although I did notice it was kind of hard to win when you are attacking..... I even tried defending against a hard computer and it was a breeze till the last half minutes but by then they didn't have time to do anything.

[Pinky]

Indeed. I've noticed that by merely using manual turret control, and dumping all his new MWs at that turret in formation, it's basically impossible for the attacker to get past the first point. The last game I played, the only thing that allowed him to continue on at all was when I got Evilninians right behind the defence.

[Greeba]

I never noticed this (I just played three rounds of the third kind in a row)

Well, hopefully you've been playing against people that decided not to cheat, or just don't know about it. The fix is on the way anyway.

Indeed. I've noticed that by merely using manual turret control, and dumping all his new MWs at that turret in formation, it's basically impossible for the attacker to get past the first point. The last game I played, the only thing that allowed him to continue on at all was when I got Evilninians right behind the defence.

The attacker must be deeply useless if they can't even storm one turret... maybe if they just set up one direct line of advancing MWs and allow them all to be mown down they won't get through, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.

[Pinky]

He certainly wasn't useless, I had about 300 MWs behind the turret, and I'm quite good at manual control.

[bert_the_turtle]

Yes, I've basically made the same experience. The problem is that the ground there is relatively flat, so you can really mow down the hordes, and your formations handle those few that get throug. But of course, that's nothing compared to the first two turrets on absolutely flat ground on Beyond the Pale.

[Greeba]

He certainly wasn't useless, I had about 300 MWs behind the turret, and I'm quite good at manual control.

...and if you had time to get 300 units in there, he was too slow getting in there first.

[Pinky]

He took the first mass of units straight up front - for that one I had 100 MWs behind the turret, but considering that I took no casualties from that, it's a fair indication of the huge strength of that position.

[Shwart!!]

He took the first mass of units straight up front - for that one I had 100 MWs behind the turret, but considering that I took no casualties from that, it's a fair indication of the huge strength of that position.

Seriously, though, it should never take more than one assault to take down that point. There are at least 2 good ways to do it, plus the standard 'fan'n'spam'.
If it takes more than three, your attacker is probably doing something wrong.

Shwart!!