1V1 Beginning Rush

[Mark Maxis]

I know this has been posted way too many times but I feel like this needs to be fixed quickly. I've played to many games where the whole strategy was to just bum rush the enemy with tier 1 troops at the beginning of the game. Either I would lose immediatley for being an idiot and not doing building an early warren, or I would counter it and the enemy team would immediatly surrender. It just sucks. I know I should just build a warren at the beginning to defend, but the fact that this strategy exists sort of damages the game.

[Luna]

it doesnt, this isnt halo wars 2 where it takes a few minutes to get up a low tier army, this is more akin to star craft 2. The beginning faze of the game will set the tone for the rest of the match, scout your enemy and build some turrets if you dont plan on building more than 1 dist borthers. Get some squirrels and suicide toads if you plan on defening yourself, it only takes 2minutes. Just focus on defending effectively and the opponent is gonna blow through more food than you.

[Chester]

You have access to all the units and each unit has some sort of counter at each tier. If you find you are getting killed by a zerg rush tech in Toads.

A safe build I've used is:

1. Que farm as soon as you spawn,

2.find the enemy

3.then warren - either a Lizard or Squirrel your preference but in my experience when stuck on tier 1 squirrels out preform Lizard.

4.scout again to see if your opponent is zerg rushing,


5.If they are next 60 food is a toad warren. Not that toads will hard counter a zerg rush and solve all your problems, but they are the "counter" on tier 1

Hope this helps

[Gregram]

From personal expirience croakers counter works only on nomads because it's easy to kite croakers with dist bros.

[Nash]

5 farm into warren is a very solid start and it lets your easily react to possible aggression. From that you can go eco or just drop another warren for defense.

Also remember to keep your units on top of the warrens. This makes it very hard for your enemy to target your units rather than the warren. Also be vary of your general warren placement - keep it near the possible attack path and near the farms so pigs can help dealing with the attack.

Lastly, there are some units that are very good at dealing with the early aggression. Let's say you scout 5 farm 2 warrens lizard start from your enemy and you only have 1 squirrel warren. Instead of dropping another squirrel warren, drop warren for toads. Toads are very good at dealing with tier 1 units, especially when they are trying to swarm your base.

[Retrolicious]

Just build a gatling bear and pew pew pew !

[Nalverus]

...the only person thats actually read what the OP put is the first responder.

unfortunately, this is how most RTS games go. if a player does an early zerg rush an fails, hes so far behind that most times they've already lost. so they just surrender as they will never have the resources to counter any higher tier you've gotten.