Illusion13
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What if I just wanted to build a Zerg rush of Warriors? >.>
wow that does sound like an awesome technique O.o
Well Zerg rush of Warriors can be useful. Say... You're under both Vassalage and Theocracy, thats 4 free exp right there, 3 from barracks, say you're aggressive which means free Combat I. Some cities also have a Great General specialist in them, which means more exp. All in all you can give your Warrior say, City Raider, Combat, etc etc... At least doubling its strength if you attack a city. Now with things that cause collateral damage, bombers, artillery, etc... You can reduce every unit in a city to miniscule strength. Now that you've fully collateral damaged the 100 unit stack, you Zerg rush it with 200 of your own warriors.
Yeah I know I am probably crazy and on crack at the same time, oh well, just a thought >.>
Thing is, in that Final Frontier mod, I HAVE used bombers and Starbases to completely reduce a stack of Battleships down to like nothing. Then even warriors will suffice >.>
most of the things i do in civ fall more under the "wacko" label than "awesome technique". see this post for what i think is my most extreme example of delaying making macemen obsolete.
i'm not real sure what a zerg rush is. my old-lady impression from most of the contexts i've heard it in is that it's like in an mmo when you get a ton of people on your side to go kill just a few people on the other side, completely overpowering them. and then you run around trashtalking, saying "roflcopter we OMGWTHBBQPWND joo!" but i could be entirely wrong, i never pvp. i'm a permawuss.
uhoh! mmo = shorthand for Massively Multiplayer Online (sometimes RolePlaying) Game, like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars and a lot of others, and some first person shooter games i don't know the names of. PvP is Player versus Player. for those games, there are "sides" or "factions" and they fight each other. the players try to kill each other . i only know how WoW works: you earn experience to get higher levels and more abilities by killing monsters, but you can earn "honor" to get better equipment and stuff by killing players. WoW has some PvE servers too, player vs environment i think that stands for, where you just fight monsters. even on PvE servers you can PvP when you want to, but you have go specific places to do it, you won't ever be standing around doing normal stuff and BAM somebody kills you when you weren't expecting it and knowing that it was a possibility. they have that option because of wimpy players like me. the hardcore PvP folks have a nickname for people like me ... "carebear" ... that doesn't bother me a single bit! *giggle*
so like, you're level 25 out trying to fight monsters to get experience on a PvP server. and some level 70 from the other side has nothing better to do, and comes by and kills you. both sides do this sometimes, since there are jerks on both sides. and every once in a while, each side will go "zerg" the other team's big cities. they fight all the guards and it's really fun to stand there and watch everybody on both sides die. they're all crazy.
civ4 is so much more civilized imo . but there's probably a real definition of zerg that means nothing like i think it does. i'm really curious how off base i am *giggle*.
Zerg rush is a term from the RTS Starcraft, where the Zerg player would build a horde of his very cheap Zerglings and overwhelm the other player with those weak units.
Yeah its a term from Starcraft, quite possibly the most popular RTS ever... I cant believe not that many people have heard of it here =O
Yeah Zerg rush is exactly what that is. Zerglings are cheap, move fast, and attack fast. 10 of them are never going to do anything useful later in the game but if you get like 100, you an overwhelm just about anything. Well, you can overwhelm alot of things with 100 Zerglings anyways...
I was under the impression that Zerg rush has spawn the definition of getting weak units to completely overwhelm stronger units already on the internet and people would know >.>
I am too young T_T (Starcraft is at least 13 years old >.<)