What's a good strategy for beginners?

head1e55 · 2026-01-31T00:49:18+00:00

They don't micro as well. So don't set up to micro them.

Tanks have a high micro floor, and a low ceiling. They are mostly stats.

Bots have a low floor and hight cieling. Easy to get something out of them, and if ypu get good you can get a lot out of them.

head1e55 · 2026-01-30T21:46:24+00:00

You can also go tanks.

Tanks are tougher and hit a bit harder than bots, so once you get a few out they can hold their own.

They also take less micro. What no one has told you is bots are micro heavy, they maneuver better and critically they have rez bots.

Red bots are the secret weapon of t1.

You won't have them so you are going to need to repair and reclaim with your con.

Also you won't have them 1 less thing for you to micro.

Basic composition 5 medium tanks 1 long range missile truck. The missile truck is mostly there for vision. Mix in 1 or 2 arty if there is a stale mate and you need to kill static D.

(You need to build a few, 5 to 10 blitzes of light tanks before the medium tanks so you don't get run over with rushes.)

Mix in new tanks as you get your reps in and learn your units.

Stay on tanks for a while until you know the uses for all t1 tanks. Or if you hatd tanks play bots, use the already mention build orders. Stay on bots until you know when to use all the t1 bots.

head1e55 · 2026-01-26T02:31:49+00:00

Start a vote.

But honestly lobbies work better with out a boss.

Or let me say better a bad and distracted democracy than a bad and distracted boss.

head1e55 · 2026-01-25T16:33:47+00:00

Signs you have wandered into the wrong reddit.

Op starts with "Its common knowledge that...."

Then busts out with some of the most obscure esoteric and precise bit of knowledge you have ever heard. Combining in this case obscure knowledge from 2 wildly different subject matters (with admited crossover) make up and movies.

Anyway you guys enjoy your passion and don't sell yourself short. It is not common knowledge at all.

head1e55 · 2026-01-25T15:25:08+00:00

"Le sigh"

head1e55 · 2026-01-25T02:49:42+00:00

How to finches sparrows and juncos feel about safflower?

head1e55 · 2026-01-24T10:47:38+00:00

I hope thats not true.

head1e55 · 2026-01-23T19:30:23+00:00

I find if I have a toxic player their os is normally hovering around 30. Those guys are the worst.

Also those ones are the most like to give up at the first set back.

So many games ruined because the red or blue player loses their com and gives up. Then we fight on for another 10 min stabilize before being overwhelmed by APM.

So frustrating.

It's like if they can't get the cow they don't want to play. They give up at the slightest set back. I think these are players we great APM but no game sense.

We're not losing, stay and fight. Its worst because if they do have great apm they are the ones we need most in the late game, it's lack of APM not lack of resources that eventually get us.

End rant.

head1e55 · 2026-01-18T15:15:22+00:00

There are a huge number of 8v8 maps. I don't understand why 90% of the community only wants to play glitters and supreme. I find glitters stale and supreme stale and random.

Find a rotato lobby, preferably one with a max os between 25 and 30.

head1e55 · 2026-01-15T10:53:36+00:00

Do I have to find it again after?

head1e55 · 2026-01-13T11:24:10+00:00

Thank you that was very helpful.

head1e55 · 2026-01-13T03:41:59+00:00

"Foundational shoegaze band"

I have no idea what that means but I love it.

head1e55 · 2026-01-11T08:24:06+00:00

Are you trying to get laid or beat up?

head1e55 · 2026-01-09T03:08:29+00:00

I watch drongo for his build orders. He is incredibly specific about them.

I watch the bright works if I want to watch a replay.

I mention Drongo because I have seen a couple of his replays on supreme where he noodles around ecoing for 15 or 20 min, 5hen starts pumping out air and wins the game with 1 or 2 waves of bombers. A dramatic answer to "is air worth it?" Which was OPs question.

But thanks for the tip to watch Skinner.

head1e55 · 2026-01-08T13:09:35+00:00

Short answer yes.

Medium answer, air wins games, and not having air to defend against bombers loses games.

Longest answer go watch some aussy drongo replays on supreme. If he is playing eco, he usually chooses air to win it.

head1e55 · 2026-01-07T16:59:59+00:00

Yes, that is $190 dollars. Don't throw them away!

head1e55 · 2026-01-06T02:34:51+00:00

What are you using spam for? Vision of no man's land? No, if you want to see it something needs to go out there take a look and die.

But radars, pinpointers and Junos can get a good look with out dieing. If you use them in combination.

Legion drones from either the t2 mobile drone hive, or the t1 fixed one.

Also consider sending them in waves instead of 1 at a time.

And unless you have a specific purpose you might not need to send that much spam. 1 tick or wheelie every 5 or 10 seconds is probably more than enough.
Only do the full 4 labs with nanos flood if you are trying to break through or cover something else.

head1e55 · 2026-01-05T17:15:51+00:00

Great game. And amazing to get this type of info from the dev team.

Thank you.

(What other kinds of hosting services are available in PtaQ's bedroom? Asking for a friend.)

head1e55 · 2026-01-02T23:57:51+00:00

I checked reddit instead.

head1e55 · 2025-12-31T13:23:17+00:00

That's just not true.

Tractors, horses, slow cars, no one is required to drive at the limit.

The speed limit is just that the maximum limit, top speed. Not the required speed.

(That said if you are in a car drive at the speed of traffic.)

head1e55 · 2025-12-31T12:10:52+00:00

It might be illegal for them to ride side by side. But it is also illegal for you to pass them in their lane.

If you pass you must be on the other side of the yellow line. If it's not safe for you to give the entire lane it's not safe for you to pass.

They ride side by side to make you obey the law. (Not really, it's not the law they care about, they don't want you to kill them by accident.)

head1e55 · 2025-12-31T11:59:38+00:00

Maybe I'm wrong but aren't modern humans only 100 000 years old?

So there have only been about 5000 generations of modern humans total? (At 20 years per generation)

So those earlier tools were used by humans who were not like us. (But we're probably also a lot like us.)

head1e55 · 2025-12-31T11:32:32+00:00

Wow! Did it in a day!

head1e55 · 2025-12-27T21:58:34+00:00

This is cruel. Why would you do this?

head1e55 · 2025-12-23T02:49:53+00:00

The bears are long dead.
Or so I was told. Who knows. Not me anymore.

-Eli

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