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> My favorite tactic in Dune II was to build concrete tiles right up to the enemy's base and start planting turrets. Ha! We've done the same thing and gave it
by MisterTea 8y ago
> My favorite tactic in Dune II was to build concrete tiles right up to the enemy's base and start planting turrets.
Ha! We've done the same thing and gave it a dumb name: "bagging them in" or "baggin em in". That name came much later as we used a similar tactic in command and conquer where you built sand bags up to their base and walled them in. You built a snake from your base and sell the tail as you built along. Once you reach their base you simply walled off their entrances or their ore fields. The developers never thought if this and their AI didn't know how to handle it's own base being walled off.
My brother and I had another trick for Dune II: enemy's move slower if off screen. If you were running from a faster vehicle, you scrolled until the enemy vehicle was out of view and kept it off while following your units.