How do I beat this?

[Supreme321]

Ok on theta passage at the begging of the game, first 4 minutes, my opponent rushes me with artillery and his commander. At this point i'm still building up and thus don't have the ability to even build a pd very fast. I destroy all his arty and his commander is still coming into my base. Now I think this should be an easy win as he destroys all my power. Then like James bond a t2 tranport comes and picks him up. So as of now my base has no power, he has t2 air, all my engies are dead, and his commander is still alive. At this point I just gave up because I saw chance at winning. Would any pro like to tell me how I could beat this.

[Ze_PilOt]

He has T2 air while you are still building your initial base ? Something wrong here

[Golol]

well i think it was simply the problem that he was rushing you. you should be able to defend with your com and units that you can constantly build!

[ZaphodX]

You need to post a replay. What you are describing isn't possible - you can't do an arty rush and also escape with a t2 transport that early. Getting t2 air on theta is usually a terrible idea anyway.

[ColonelSheppard]

Getting t2 air on theta is usually a terrible idea anyway.

meh

[Supreme321]

Here ya go please tell me it's impossible now. Also, I have no eco pretty much at this point at 5 min and he has t2 air, i'm screwed pretty much.

[Petricpwnz]

Here ya go please tell me it's impossible now. Also, I have no eco pretty much at this point at 5 min and he has t2 air, i'm screwed pretty much.

Lol, newer saw such a crazy strategy on theta. But it's not hard to counter, you just need to scout, as soon as you see that he's going such fast t2 air just build your own air factory and spam ints. And you need to send your tanks to his base, there is pretty much nothing to defend with, when you will destroy his pgens he won't have any power either.

[ZaphodX]

Lol what an interesting replay.

Should have raided way more early on with those tanks.

Should have gone for the arty - your tanks just stood around.

You can always try to kill the transport when it comes in, they are incredibly vulnerable. Probably couldn't have managed it this time.

Keep all units away from the comm unless your comm is there too.

Should have kept playing - land raid HARD. Get one fac repeat building engineers, rest on tank spam. Get the hydro up asap and land spam tanks. Raid a lot with your tanks and get some t1 aa next to your hydro.

[Supreme321]

Great idea assuming it wont take him any time to get 10 gunships up which is plenty to kill my commander. He already had 1 by the time I tried to evacuate.

[ZaphodX]

Great idea assuming it wont take him any time to get 10 gunships up which is plenty to kill my commander. He already had 1 by the time I tried to evacuate.

If you raid hard early and after he gets t2 then he has no eco to make units and no map control. If he kills your raiding tanks you have tons of time to get on your feet, if he goes for your base or your comm you can get up t1 AA and control the entire map leaving him with no eco.