Making Tac a viable solo tech

Post by **Raveen** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:02 pm

Tac is perfectly viable as a defensive tech as long as you have probes out and see bomb runs coming. Exp and Sup are better at rush D when a bomber appears without warning 1k from your techbase aleph which is why they are seen as better defensive techs.

In actual fact Tac can systematically take to pieces any bomb run probably more efficiently than Sup or maybe even Exp. But you need probes and in PUGs you don't have them.

Death3D · Post by **Death3D** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:00 am

And amazing base placement.

Ramaglor · Post by **Ramaglor** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:36 am

meh, unless you have hunter 3, an ints with mini1 (skilled pilots) can kill nan scouts faster.

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:32 am

Yeah true that. No matter how good you are you're still relying on the missile to do the work for you. In an int, you're taking matters into your own hands, and yes it is faster if more dangerous.

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:37 pm

Unsurprisingly, most people defend with tac the same way they defend with sup/ints - namely, concentrating on camping an aleph. This is NOT the best way.

A good tac team will get sfs into the sector where the bomber is coming from and start picking off nans as early as possible. This works for tac because the sfs can stay out of range of the gunners and fire off lrms at nans. A really good team will call targets such that all the sfs are firing missiles at the same nan at the same time, virtually guaranteeing the nan will die to a single missile salvo. The sfs can shadow the bomber as it goes into the target sector, picking off nans all the way, giving the team plenty of time to kill the bomb run before it gets within missile range.

Of course this strategy also presumes good probing to spot bomb runs, which is sadly lacking these days as well.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:14 pm

Tac is fine. Admittedly it's rare to see it as a solo techpath, but it's not undear of.

Clay_Pigeon · Post by **Clay_Pigeon** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:01 pm

I think this is because people are getting better at countering tac, rather than tac being out of balance.

Gothmog · Post by **Gothmog** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:01 pm

This obviously means we need to beef it up, if people are learning how to counter it. I suggest doubling sf missile capacity and lowering sig and increasing energy. And give them a booster. And Miniguns.

Gappy · Post by **Gappy** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:48 pm

Move Sig GAs to tac, reduce the reliance on Tacspansion

Post by **zombywoof** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:41 am

Gappy wrote:QUOTE (Gappy @ Nov 2 2008, 03:48 PM) Move Sig GAs to tac, reduce the reliance on Tacspansion

I'm new, but personally I'd like to see this. It makes no sense that sig FAs are on the expansion path, which deals with brute force and shoving heavy interceptors down people's throats, and not the Tactical path, which deals with sneakyness.