R.U.S.E demo

[Symonator]

Yeah RUSE is my most anticipated this side of dc universe LOL.

Should make some good games on mp will ruse.. lets just hope dave can get online lol.

[InfiniteStates]

Forget in fighting! I'm really excited about this league thing - Mess Hall gonna kick some, ooo rah...

[Symonator]

Been watching a few pc games on the tube.. i have 1 worry about the game.. in one video a guy has the upper hand, several airbases, alot of tanks and anti air also has alot of infantry, using his ruse moves for fake attacks then moving his real army in.. then the guys like, hmm why isn't he attacking me...

next 2 or 3 minutes u see boom, boom, boom wiping out his structures.. its standard arty and them portable missile vehicles.. bombarding his base.. hope they don't get spammed to much on ps3, really ruins the potential.

[InfiniteStates]

Yep - like EndWar, arty will be like the queen in chess I reckon. But even worse, the arty in RUSE (unlike EndWar) can attack targets you haven't got eyes on, where as air support can't. So he can kick shit out of you with arty while you can't counter with planes until you get something close enough to see (although recon planes are fucking useful).

I'm not sure how effective AA is, but I suspect it's pretty damn quick to bring planes down. So all you need is arty and AA at the back with tanks and infantry providing a meat shield = rolling turtle of death.

And that nuke arty is gonna royally suck - especially when you can build them at will. I think the first month will be rough online, but hopefully a nerf patch will make it great.

[Symonator]

Yeah i havent seen the nuke arty on any youtube vid, maybe its just for single player?
Hopefully it is.

But they have some cool planes for usa/england, watch this guys videos -
username on youtube: "RUSEHD".

He does some good commentaries aswell.

Basically he has some great strategy.
He also says england faction has air supriority compared to other factions, but not to do to much air vs usa as they have the best counters for it, like the deadly vads lol.

He also says in his opinion that usa has the advantage of othr factions as u can deploy recon and willy jeeps from the barracks, where as other factions must collect supplies to build an armour factory first .. so have to see how that works.

Been reading the forums and watching his vids, there is a helluva lot of strategy to this game, hiding in bushes, cities and towns plays big parts in it.

People who rush will pay dearly for the mistake.
Should make some cool online mess hall fun!

You'll notice on alot of youtube vids they never seem to have more than 30-40 units at anyone time, so i searched it and came up with ruse forums, where they say most people on pc have about 20 strong ground units and 20 mixed units for a whole game, so maybe we might not see to much spamming? and the pop cap of 60 units might not be so bad.

7 days to go lol!!

[Symonator]

6 days to go or 4-5 if your with shopto..

[InfiniteStates]

Man didn't see your posts here...I've only just realised that the way to see new posts it to use the active threads link. No my usual MO - Dave, is the new posts icon coming back or what? I miss 'em...

Yeah, I realised from the demo that camping infantry in a hidden perimeter was pretty strong (against the AI). And I'm not worried about the unit cap either. TBH, anything above 60 starts to become a bit unmanageable for me anyway.

Trying desperately to get other games finished before this comes out - counting down the days. Although it might get banned if you can field UK vs USA, once the do-gooders have finished pissing on MoH's remains LOL