| mammoth tanks... [message #208021] |
Fri, 14 July 2006 04:25  |
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futura83
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does anyone actually use these successfully?
i was on black-cell.net marathon yesterday, and GDI kept mammoth tank rushing unsuccessfully, even though they had about 3 or 4 mammys per rush.
these rushes were countered mainly with light tanks, stealth tanks, and mendozas. they had quite a few rushes, and i was in the same light tank for each rush.
sso then, are these really powerful, or were the drivers just n00bs?
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208042 is a reply to message #208021] |
Fri, 14 July 2006 07:35  |
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Like any unit they need to be bought at the appropriate time, retards in large public games will see they have 1500 credits and think that they will be invincible in their big tank - the result is a huge slow target that will get destroyed almost instantly.
Get a Mammoth tank sat on the Nod airstrip though and you succesfully stop vehicle production whilst blasting a building/racking up kills with your tusk's up close and personal.
Basically, mammoths are good when base defense are down - and much easier to use on open spacious maps with multiple entry points in to the enemy base.
Important to remember that cannons have a longer range but do less damage, tusks home and do more damage but should only be used at close range.
Also, I never get out of a mammoth to repair once I have bought it (unless I am in a very safe location), you can't see around the thing well enough to spot theives and it will make you an instant target for snipers/your tank a target for sbh tank stealing nubs.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208058 is a reply to message #208042] |
Fri, 14 July 2006 09:50 |
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Mammoths are devastating in the right situation. 90% of public server players do not know what the right situation is, which is why mammoths have a reputation for being useless.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208068 is a reply to message #208021] |
Fri, 14 July 2006 11:00 |
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i used one before on canyon in the server i mentioned in the OP, and it helped destroy the hand of nod.(fortunately, i had good cover from some meds, otherwise, sbhs would have destroyed me)
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208111 is a reply to message #208021] |
Fri, 14 July 2006 16:18 |
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On Hourglass, Nod was pounding us. Eventually, I guess everyone grew desperate. There were like 7 mammoths in a line across the entrance to our base. A wall of pure tank-shell and rocket-fire spewed forth destroying waves of artillery. (I wish I had remembered to save that screen-shot.)
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208167 is a reply to message #208058] |
Sat, 15 July 2006 03:34 |
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| MaidenTy1 wrote on Fri, 14 July 2006 18:50 |
Mammoths are devastating in the right situation. 90% of public server players do not know what the right situation is, which is why mammoths have a reputation for being useless.
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I need to second that.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208189 is a reply to message #208021] |
Sat, 15 July 2006 08:30 |
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I think the fun of the mammoth is finding that right situation, when you succesfully pull off a mammoth rush it really is invincible, when base defences go down and all you can hear is tusk fure and a re-assuring boink - TS is good for this.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208195 is a reply to message #208021] |
Sat, 15 July 2006 08:58 |
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just before, i was nod on hourglass, and there was only the wf left on gdi; guarded by a mammoth tank and various infantry. so i got a light tank purposely to destroy the mammy. it went sucessfully, and surely enough, about 2 - 3 mins after destroying it, a beacon was placed that destroyed the wf. 
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208442 is a reply to message #208021] |
Sun, 16 July 2006 15:24 |
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C&C_Canyon is the absolute best place for mammies. When the Airstrip and/or Ref is down, Nod doesn't have that many tanks to counter with. A mammy could sit in the base entrence and use it's tusks to pointwhore the Hand Of Nod.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #208608 is a reply to message #208021] |
Mon, 17 July 2006 23:58 |
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If you get the strip or ref down on Canyon, then it is much easier to apc/nuke them down. But that won't get you 11k points ofcourse, it'll just give you a quick win...
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209171 is a reply to message #208021] |
Fri, 21 July 2006 23:20 |
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But tusks pwn. If you like the cannon, you might as well stick to the med, since the mammy's cannon isn't that much better.
| DarkDemin wrote on Thu, 03 August 2006 19:19 |
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209206 is a reply to message #208021] |
Sat, 22 July 2006 07:34 |
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i love it when mammies try and rush the field and get owned by like one arty.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209376 is a reply to message #209171] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 12:51 |
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| Dover wrote on Sat, 22 July 2006 01:20 |
But tusks pwn. If you like the cannon, you might as well stick to the med, since the mammy's cannon isn't that much better.
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I generally prefer fighting at range, so the cannon serves me pretty well most of the time. Plus, I like the constant stream of fire you get. But the Tusks do tear up pesky infantry who like to get right up to your treads.
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209453 is a reply to message #208021] |
Sun, 23 July 2006 20:17 |
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Tusks do more damage than the cannons, and have the same rate of fire. Only disadvantage is they travel slower and have shorter range. Still, whenever my target wanders into tusk range, I always switch.
| DarkDemin wrote on Thu, 03 August 2006 19:19 |
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209477 is a reply to message #208021] |
Mon, 24 July 2006 00:55 |
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When people are RIGHT up close to you though you have to use the cannons though.. Generally with using the tusks not many people get a chance to get up close to you though. 
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| Re: mammoth tanks... [message #209599 is a reply to message #208021] |
Mon, 24 July 2006 15:57 |
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Besides the very short distance, the tusks can, as everyone else has said be devastating. But on the other hand, they dont always go where you want them to...so the cannons would be a + for me.... and the tusks, meh..dont use very often
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