Useing Scrin mothership

[JBV3737]

This is for mostly late games when you have the money.

A Signal Transmitter allows you to summon the mother ship; it also spawns on top of the Signal Transmitter. Therefore if you build it in or near your enemies base you can spawn a mother ship in an unstopible place.
Firstly build a Signal Transmitter and MCV with an army to defend your mcv, save up your money to 10,000$ or so them start moving you mcv closest to your enemy; along with your army; While doing this sell your other Signal Transmitter at your own base ( so you don’t have a Signal Transmitter) have the Signal Transmitter ready to place, and maybe some defenses and production buildings. When your mcv is closest to the enemies base place it; place Signal Transmitter closest to your enemies base facing there base; as well anything else that you built ( probably wise to place other stuff first so his army and or defenses attack those. then simply spawn the mothership.

If he has a bunched up amount of anti air or power plants use your warp shield ability to shut these down.

;) if you do it right you can spawn a mothership right into shooting range to make the road to victory for you.

[wargrudge]

Thats a waste of money. The mother ship is more like a weapon you use to gloat, like:

"Hey look, I made this BIG, EXPENSIVE P.O.S. It's armor sucks, so if you were still able to actually challenge me I'd be screwed out of five grand. But you lose anyways, so oh well."

Rather build a bunch of upgraded tripods, they'd get the job done faster.

[sverkuijlen2000]

If you have an army that can get right up to the enemies base protecting a vulnarable mcv from harm then you have no need for a mothership :p

[Soviet779]

Thats a waste of money. The mother ship is more like a weapon you use to gloat, like:

"Hey look, I made this BIG, EXPENSIVE P.O.S. It's armor sucks, so if you were still able to actually challenge me I'd be screwed out of five grand. But you lose anyways, so oh well."

Rather build a bunch of upgraded tripods, they'd get the job done faster.

Thats what i thought, only use if you know you've won or your playing somone whos blind or somthing :P lol

[Apolo]

lol yhe i suppose it only a "weapon"(unit) to take the pi** out of your enamy with,because if you used it on some one and they let it get into thier base then they are a relly new player lol.I mean whould you let some thing that big into your base ?:)

[wargrudge]

....the computer :shifty:

[MercZ]

That ship is really good for skirmish play... in MP the money is better spent on tripods.

[JBV3737]

5000$ is not much money at all, little under 2 harvy loads. you would get 3 tripods max. and with it built inside the enemies base hes messed badly, and if you do have an army it just makes him choose: attack his army, or his mothership?:cool:

[OneWiseSith]

The Mother ship is the most lethargic weapon. As stated quite nicely above it is a gloat, nothing more. It does look sweet though.

[Gaucho8788]

If you can actually get it in a position to fire it is really sweet.

[JBV3737]

well all i know is it is respownible for me winning 5+ games, which i would have probibly lost if i didn't use this tactic. ( and this tactic it hasn't ever backfired yet.) :D

Those who think the mothership sucks just don't know how to use it.

[wargrudge]

Obviously they weren't any good to not make sure you couldn't use it.

[Esure]

Ok heres how to use the mothership properly.

Start:

One Power Plant
Next a crane
Next Refinery/Refinery(Sell)
Send the buzzers that was made from the Refinery to scout out the base
Make a Radar dish/Barracks
Make a Tech Building/Advanced Infantry Building
Make a Mastermind/That building that lets you summon mothership (dont deploy)
Collect $5000 whilst sending your mastermind around to the back of your enemies base.
Capture his command centre, deploy the building, deploy mothership. Gratz not only have you got your enemies command centre, you have a mothership in his base and a plently of other options.

This is the one i personally use, there are counters to it and it can leave your base open early on. However you have stasis shield and lightning tower. I personally love this strat because it is something out the ordinary your enemy doesn't expect. Have a go. :wave:

[JBV3737]

Ok heres how to use the mothership properly.

Start:

One Power Plant
Next a crane
Next Refinery/Refinery(Sell)
Send the buzzers that was made from the Refinery to scout out the base
Make a Radar dish/Barracks
Make a Tech Building/Advanced Infantry Building
Make a Mastermind/That building that lets you summon mothership (dont deploy)
Collect $5000 whilst sending your mastermind around to the back of your enemies base.
Capture his command centre, deploy the building, deploy mothership. Gratz not only have you got your enemies command centre, you have a mothership in his base and a plently of other options.

This is the one i personally use, there are counters to it and it can leave your base open early on. However you have stasis shield and lightning tower. I personally love this strat because it is something out the ordinary your enemy doesn't expect. Have a go. :wave:


Nice, good tactic but if it fails and ur mastermind or somthing dies or goes wrong your messed up lol. but i could still see it working really well.