Attack types - very confused

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(01-12-2013 08:34 PM)QuantumApocalypse Wrote:  

(01-12-2013 08:12 PM)Wildtalon1851 Wrote:  I am only in clever but I have seen a couple of attack types being named. So far, I know that a rush has something to do with runners, and I have heard of turtling, and also reaper rush, but I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN! After all, I am only an idiot who has been playing since game release D:

Turtling: *Kind of* the opposite of rushing. Turtling is a menial but often easy to employ but tactic. Primarily it involves the use of Bombshells. It is often where one or both players build some sort of impenetrable fortress around this unit, or where there is some sort of mutual stalemate where both develop forces but neither is capable of overwhelming the other. The most common standoff is where both sides amass bombshells, or one side does so and the other prepares some attack. When both sides utilise bombshells, neither side would benefit greatly from advancing, due to the benefits of camping, and so the matches move at a very slow rate; some may say, as slow as a turtle. Thus the term "turtling"

I sense bias. Turtling is easy to do against feedback and especially Veggienauts, but it can be hard to do against post patch adorables (or so I here from most of the top players, many of which are switching to adorables). Adorables can hit and run cost efficiently whittling away a turtle without getting hit by bombshells. The trades are wit neutral but the Scallywag player gets behind in unit count. In other words, turtling isn't an easy menial task against adorables since the patch (though prepatch I agree). And it is still extremely annoying for feedback to deal with on many maps. However adorables seem much more annoying for feedback now than Scallywags. Am I going to call mobi hit and run easy or menial though (all it requires is turtling with mobis, attacking and recalling to safety). Not here when someone is asking for simple definitions. Those criticisms belong in a balance thread.