Halo Wars Strategy - Elephant Rush - on HEROIC

[caboose241]

Don't focus on the main building though, send some marines to take down the temple, barracks and vehicle depot to stop their soldier flow

[jack88son]

Proven*

[jack88son]

Is this proben in online play

[kinneylee]

@jack88son no but I'm sure it does work online.

[TheDeathToaster]

A 5 year old could beat you.

[TheIcefang]

this rush didn't work the fucken elites deicided to go to my base and killed all my marines when I tried to stop them

[darx202]

Lolz I love your ign. BigWetVULVA. Unless it's AI 1

[legoboy101010]

You have to have 4 reactors to get odst.

[TheGoose45]

@legoboy101010 no three

[legoboy101010]

@TheGoose45 Yeah I meant 3.

[1Kluesy]

@legoboy101010 3 reactors

[highlandcommando]

done a similar deal last week but with odst’s...... annihilation.

[TheFanOfAllGames82]

@highlandcommando And on top of that, if you dont want to wait for the odst's to come out, YOU DROP THEM :)

[K1NGB0SS]

Great vid. Thanks. I think the only thing I'd do differently was build one reactor just so I could train Spartans in case they try to send out vehicles.

[shizkids]

in the start, why not just put the elephant behind the enemy base,, just out of sight, and while its on its way, your supply's can just stockpile, thats my way of doing it, but this is a great vivdeo thumbs up! :)

[weegogo123]

LMFAO at the warthog comin in to the action lol

[ZombieFaction29]

nice strategy, but u should send the first wave of marines alone, and hide ur elephant unseen, but right next 2 the base

[xFlaminGruntx]

i did the elephant rush for the first time after i saw this video. it was on legendary though but i still won because the arbitar was wraith rushing me and not guarding his base. basically it was a race to destroy the enemy base.

[42newgamer]

you rock.

[TheOptimusjb]

thanks dude you rock

[hairskin]

note if u get elaphant rushed just build scrorpion whoops if covenant build jackals and 3 hunters make sure u lock down and a couple of vehicles like wraithts should rape those marines and flamthrowers

[440aiden]

i'll produce marines with you all night. ;) haha jk

[killermasta7]

weres all the marines the elephant gets???

[oOJBizzOo]

i personally would've sent the elephant straight to there base and then locked it odwn just for the sake of suppressing them from the very begining, but nice vis im gonna try this one

[NATEBRO16]

usin ur surplus supplies to send an extra elephant can really help, cos it splits ur enemies and lets u get infantry out 2wice as fast

[Pontare100]

ty for the strategy it helped me alot

[MMMunchlax]

lol two step 4s.

[umightlose]

I don't think it would work against real people though cause they wouldn't make honor guards which suk pretty bad

[mightybrent008]

fun

[hunterman417]

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[Kizingtonzz]

Hi Ethan i love your vids

Could you tell me how you record your video's while you are playing? I really have no idea.

Thanks,

Kiz

[OZsumLife]

This is a marine rush using an elephant

And you missed the point of this map. your Elephant could take out all the barbarians at the supply tower to the right and you would have twice as many marines.

[Falloon3]

what if they lock the base nd bring put lots of units. i tried this on my friend it worked the first time but he locked his base and brought out lots of wartogs... how do you counter his counter ??

[sangoose3]

it works wonders in 1v1s online u guys dont know what ur talking about

[PinguDaPenguin]

bitcht

[Lesliejustkidding]

you should have used the MAC blast when taking down the shields...

[KCT305]

he didnt have reactor

[kylie123j]

warthog ramed the elite

[ty1770]

make elephant first. send warthog to get supplies. build 3 flame throwers 2 marines. send them and the elephant in. set elephant just out side of range. set marker out side of enemy base. attack repeatedly. if they have a leader build a fuck load of flamethrowers :) i just said this vid better in text cuz he dosent know shit.

[JustLuckyToBeMe]

???

7 Supply pads lolol

[starscreamleader]

i thought u put it next to your enemys base then u send them out

[turk18]

these strategys suck dude!!

[Kylec123321]

not really a elephant rush its a marine rush

[UKES123]

My freind rushed me with odsts and i got raped

[7bloodi]

heroic? Whats the point, heroic is piss easy, this rush wouldnt work on legendary, no way

[jimmyboyG485]

playing this guy online would be fun imo.

[TheRui7]

good rush

[gocartz97]

good vid it works very good keep it up and stop putting bad comments

[GAMEVUZE]

i'm sure when this video was mad halo wars was still pretty new. just for those who are commenting about how crappy the rush is. most of us know that we can't move our elephant up to the enemies base but it is a great solution for maps with great distances between you and ur enemy. everyone knows that covenant has the teleportation advantage. so this might help relieve some stress on ur unit who are in battle. obviously by adding more units to help. Good Vid Ethan.

[GeezBox]

Lots of problems. Leaders can take down the elephant w/o a break of sweat. If not they can build wathogs. That would end your infantry and elephants. Basically elephants have low defence. Of course your building alot of marines but 1 warthog has been tested to kill about 4 unit of marines. Unless marines use rpg/grenades. 3/5 rating stratagy. Keep in mind that if your facing a unsc leader they have mac blast/carpet bomb

[paul13chidori]

on the actual halo wars wot does it mean on difficulty automatic(41 (or any other number),)

[Kmacfoshoyo]

it matches the AI's difficulty to your skill level

[GAMEVUZE]

paul the number is the level in which you currently play. so automatic puts the AI at ur level. so if your at a high level automatic might be harder than legendary. for instance mines 86 and it's harder than legendary.

[paul13chidori]

thank you, and very well written out mine is now 61 or 62 and i tried automatic (i lost -_-)

[mx23blazer]

need 2v2 partner

[buddytime90]

i got a better elephant rush on head to head u make 3 elephants upgrade all the way get 3 spartans put them in elephants to prevent jacking and to pump up damage and hitpoints lock em down near enemy base take out both turrets to prevent FATALITY and let defense turrets and marines and flame thorowers do there work if u can make 3 extra just incase of the elephants are shot dead and yea kep at it to do it

[iambubbathedog]

would take way too long

[Ir0nStein]

that would fail super bad man, they would own your marines

[killermoth384]

it would have been cool if they added a game mode that had an adaptable ai throughout the game

[kevinlee41300]

how do we get the xbox 360 like u said at 1:30 ??????

[beaupivot]

if you guys wana do an ODST rush then i prefer to make supply depos, 3 reactors (or 2 and 1 is upgraded which is better) and a barracks, oh and an elephant. build marines with the elephant while the barracks is upgrading because then it is quicker and faster. you get a good force out and they become upgraded quick

[lukeiscool567]

y make an elephant if ur gonna keep it at the base

[BrushfireDbomb]

if this was a real person you would be dead that would have raped all of your units

[REDbull0909COD]

oh and i played him the other day, i built a base with nothing but turrets, lvl two turrets, and he faild his marine rush

[REDbull0909COD]

it makes no sense, u can just build a barracks

[magitian20]

noo cuz they come from your base the elaphant is closer to the opponents base

[RAMIREZ1838]

For anyone thinking of using this strategy 3 things to take noticed. 1)Simply destroying the elephant would kill you.2)a scout would of seen your strategy coming, and then build up anti Infantry. 3)In a head to head battle, you would get you ass handed back to you.

[jeremyshaw1]

vs a crap ai from the demo...

[HaroFree69]

flamers dont do shit aginst buildings FYI

[ilovejordiecushman]

They do against armor guards FYI

[edwalkowiak]

this is a good strategy but its really easy to counter, u have to remember its an A.I. player a real human player on xbox live would upgrade any of the covanet with in the 1 min mark and would probaly have a star by 3 min mark where its before u attack so it will easly destroy everything you make.

[adi1096]

HaHa an elephant producing marines ?!

[MouldyTurnip]

There Is No Right And Wrong Only Fun And Boring

[pyromunkee13]

lawl @ 3:46 ghost sh!t its pants

[PivotDemon548]

lmao XD

[wolfmanyo2]

yo people how the heck did this happen when i was playing halo wars against an A.I a fricken hornet popped out of a eliphent i was like wtf!!! no fair!!!!!! i mean reasly i did happen!!

[IXBlackoutXI1]

haha i love rushing but then people i was playin wit were getting all pissed off and throwin a fit when i had a shit load of units at his base

[rob4lfc]

Heres a tactic for ya, When covenant make a base full of 7 shield generators and its makes the base very hard to destroy, it takes a while. piont of this is you have more time on your main base to get units. im just sayin to people who didnt know.

[captainwiggles1]

i dont see the point of rushing unless its online because it boring, i like it when they get a big army vs big army much more fun. nice vid

[Dtiger02]

Poor rush man... Yaa play against a Commander using PoR. I bet you they'd be smart enough to BADLY counter that. You might want to add Warthogs into an Elephant Rush =)

[MrStreetgs78]

i wouldnt rely so much on this rush cause wat happens when they attack ur base without anything there to protect it and the elephant being so slow well you know

[Menumber111]

PAD. you want a reactor for spartans. ok vid. some people can use it. I have a more effective rush. like six of them.

[munk07]

It would also be a good idea to build 2 elephants so that you can have marines coming out a lot faster. When you fill up all your spaces for marines, you can use a mac blast which will help if the base is at low health

[NinjaX314]

4:38

honor guard-wtf is that green thing?

warthog-wtf is that purple thing?

[slisherslash]

People, chill. This was made with the demo, before the game was released. You cant play real people, only AI

[DeathDontComeCheap]

Can you record a Locust, Jackal, Rush

[WoDClanProductions]

95% of those on Youtube are bad at chainmail. Not including myself.

[halofan594]

you need reactors unupgraded marines are almost useless you would be better off getting ODSTs then it would take half the number and you would still win

[NinjaX314]

...found ya...

[myprofile1234567]

u SUCK REALLY BAD

[XVXMrsPacmanXVX]

You suck at this game playing against a human he would see your elephant and build either ant infantry (to kill marines) or anti vehicle (to kill elephant)

[Dp73009]

Supply pad! Not depot. Depot, depot, depot. Pad!

[WxVIBExJ]

Wow need 4 supply pads and a reactor to upgrade the marines and flamethrowers and it wouldnt take so lng to destroy 1 base

[Hotzenplotz17]

you're much to slow dude

[Falzar2142]

jackals and your screw XD plus some hunters

[missionwhisper]

That is probably the worst elephent rush i have seen. Yu need to bring yur elephent close to the enemy base so they cant go out and collect resources. and yu just keep creating squads. Once yu have about 10 Squads. Send them to the base. Then put yur rally point right in front of the release bay of the enemy base and keep creating marines. Walala A win! ;]

[Roflinurface]

Subscribed,nice vid,iI never thought about elephant rushes.

[TomaChocolate53]

the prophet could cleansing beam elephant then wait for shields to recharge and pick off the rines

[mgp055]

what would happen if you were to play cutter & he were to mac blast your elephant any ideas?

[itry2phly]

You should keep making guides like this. I loved how you actually had commentary. Most videos are just a video with no one talking. Very nice. Good job. Ill subscribe!

[Austin6060]

THis never will work on xbox live because they would actually build units or something

[itry2phly]

Not true, i have rushed people who love to upgrade and just attack. Meny people on Xbox Live love to upgrade to the most powerful unit and attack late in the game. Which is why a rush is so powerful.

[Austin6060]

ya but thats not what im saying...im saying that, that kind of rush is not very powerful and will get defeated.

[SouthwestColt]

wow dude learn the names of the stuff

[harryishalo]

its called supply pads not depos and flammthrowers not flammer guys

[jmm123x2]

hey if thats what he wants to call them then let him call them that.

[Fungasms]

usually people play starcraft and say supply depots

[chris24taylor]

does it matter? lol

[APE258]

A reactor may be a good Idea so that you can produce spartans to hijack vehicles if nessicary. Plus spartans are great for early game combat because of their shields. It is also 3 more units of fire power that do not count agains your population.

[Hellhound30x]

"why were you trying to upgrade your supplypads? I mean you had no reactor? Next, do you really get any points when you do a rush? Isn't the only way you rank up on live is with points, and when you rush your points are under a 100 points at best....so whats the point of defeating the enemy if you don't get first place? I've seen that happen alot on live.... I'd win an enemy and they would still come in first...."

[honerguard77]

can you make an honer guard rush?

[elchinonica]

i wouldnt they'll get torn up by range units and altho they look cool...they're actually pretty easy to take down lol

[fizzyhammer]

Congratulations

There is no skill involved in any of your videos

The only thing you do is rush, rush, rush like a lil bitch

Good job dude. Your pro

[yozzer97]

Hey dude if you keep doing cool videos like these cause i need some good strategys am rating and subscribing xD and if anyone has a strategy vid please tell me :D

[SizzleingBurger]

What would be so bad ass is if the other guy tried to rush you and there was a massive marine war that would be friken awesome :) or at least interesting

[Vistetwins]

no it sucks i had a 14 min long game with two captin cutters with odst it was boring but i won

[NeoAqua777]

So.... What if they Warthog rush you and you watch all your infantry die? lol Epic fail. :-)

[sonomaboy]

rushing is for noobs that have no strategy in halo wars.

[catdogpig334]

rushing sucks

[oKripTico]

You suck.

[forrestguy1]

wow how nice

[forrestguy1]

but it wins

[YallNoMe14]

hah really this video actually all your videos can be tweeked for the better like to be faster on the rushing i rush all the time and if you rushed me like that you will end up losing so re-think your videos...

[WundawhAle]

all of these rush strategys are great but do they work against real players on xbox Live?

[werty327]

yea, unless they are

a: scout early

b:expireneced

or c: lucky cuz they made units that are strong towards the rusher's

[01PlanetOfTheBapes]

This guy is smart and cool but really mean because this video ends ant 9:11. N0000000000000000000

[jmm123x2]

I NEVER NOTICED THAT AAAAAHHHHHH!

[LiwamGeebon]

ELEPHANT UPGRADE WOULD HELP

[halo2dude123]

just make a temple and 6 supply pads and upgrade ur prophet of regret to max or close to max then upgrade all supply pads and u should be able to lazer very often and kill a lot and take out there base easy. if ur bord do this on a map with lots of bases take them all but one and have all supplys and have ur prophit lazer every unit they make for fun of watching them die.

[liam978645231]

god rushing is sooo nooby proves ur not good at rts's jeeees even if u try rush me ull fail >.>

[blingmaster300]

i agree its for ppl without brains but dont get rushes complettely wrong with one good covenant rush u could take out somone rlly fast

[softsoap]

RTS: real time strategy....

Rushing: one of many strategies......

But i do agree that most rushes will fail if you scout them out early enough.

[laramie0407]

dont hate on dude just cuz he has his startegy if it wrks for him good for him if u dont like it then stfu

[xxjumperxx123]

rushes r not all bad when i rush i ethier beat them or buy my self time to get  upgrades or other stuff wheile thier destracted by the rush and wasting money trying to stop it

[data4all]

all i need is 5 squads of odst and a hog w/ turret

[Iowaspikehead]

when i play noobs like u i laugh

[data4all]

when that warthog hit the honor guard.......lol

[Iowaspikehead]

my elephant rush is way better... you need a reactor so you can use some spartans or u phail

[xPaddyGorryx]

And to so you can upgrade your supply pads

[bluediamond077]

ya once you use a reactor it doesnt really become a rush

[Iowaspikehead]

this is a lie... warthog rush anyone?

[YOUSHOTME4S2]

Reactor + Depot (x2) > Elephant > Barracks for New Blood and Spartan ups?

[b7931486250]

at the begging the prophet could of owned all the marines with a laser if he was controld by a human

[iPopcorn]

Cleansing beam is so cheap... I love it

[blingmaster300]

heroic always does that to me n i lose lol all u gotta do is get the prophet asap and keep bringing elite honor gurads and its game

[corpral13]

would flame throwers be good for against the honor gaurd and prophet

[freeskier43]

yea

[synysterxgat3s]

lol today was my first time on multiplayer and this rush got used on me...me and my teammate were defenseless. My arby took out a good lot of em tho but the grrenades will tear u up

[Khemistry101]

Cool. But how does this style tend to play out against a person most of the time?

[Omega04271]

Hey dude u should make a video anout staying back and building up the upgrades and getting more bases under conrol on doing everything becides rushing because depending on the people hat u r playing an online match is way different

[Bobblehead423]

thankyou for this strategy, i owned some guy on 1v1 blood gulch, but without the elephants i just massed marines down the middle

[iwouldlikemuffin]

um that is a infantry unit not a regular elephant rush infantry rush so no good

[mastashooter1]

covenant leaders are 2 overpowered cuz their powers run on supplies so ppl wait until they have a lot of supplies and then they attack with their leader power and pretty much goes on forever whilst UNSC spirit of fire abilities, when u use it, u have to wait some time for it to recharge while covenant leaders rely on supplies which is not fair cuz supplies come in fast and if u have a lot of warehouses

[Jestic1e]

Its better to make marines when the elephant is near the enemy's base, that way it doesn't take as long to get there, works online anyway.

[Tom19293]

i did this tactic and it works really well. i managed to win the match against the heroic AI in 5:21 . i also know a quite good tactic to get big als scooter, and penny pincher in the same game. if your interested message me on XBL thanks. GT: x IPsYcHoTiiC x

[formalbandith]

thats why its called a rush moron. wait to long and it's not a rush anymore..jackass

[thisisjacque]

sooooo gayyyy...

[Soulself]

In his defense BOSS, he doesn't need to do any of those if the enemy can't launch an effective retaliation. Nice vid, unfortunately, I think this is a cheap tactic, and not a very fun way to play the game(or any RTS for that matter) but whatever works I suppose.

[s3anco]

i like the worthog rush better. its a lot stonger. i will be using it on the tournament this saturday

[lecrazymonke]

i am going to also

[donjuanron86]

The way I operate a marine/elephant rush is similar. I lock down my ele right next to the far sniper tower. And also build a baracks second after my first supply pad. so 6 supply pads 1 barracks. Then i can pump out soldiers twice as fast.

[HunterBlackLuna]

Personally I can tell I'm going to be going UNSC all the way. They're a bit trickier to go with but they have a lot going for them.

Think I'm going to go Sergeant Forge as my main, too. Grizzlies, carpet bombing, Cyclopes... sounds awesome. I guess I'll have to wait and see if he works for me, though.

[EthanCaineDotCom]

I think I'll be mainly UNSC too but I want to get good with the COV to because they are so unique..

[PleaseDieQuietly]

I've found that when I play against people using Covenent, they rely WAY too much on their leaders and upgrade them whilst neglecting all the other ones.

They are good, but I still think UNSC have the edge.

[killercaptinxboxlive]

build all supplie pads and just use elephants, then build spartans, commander the elephants adn charge

[EvilInquisitor]

UNSC arent as good as Covenent in my opinion. Prob cause you got Prophet on demo so all i do is upgrade him and kill a Heroic AI real quick. I cant wait to try all the other leaders so i can see whats best =) but i can imagine ppl rushin wen you say 'no rushing for however long' lol

[killercaptinxboxlive]

no matter what i am going to use the arbiter he just suits me

[mooseman1992]

why don't u upgrade your supply pads then they produce twice as much and it saves alot of space

[BunnyStomper3000]

Don't forget if they built banshees they could have about 4-6 of them if that's what they went straight for. In theory this works and it does against AI. In actuality it fails against experienced players.

[LazyJLazy]

jackals would kill marines pretty quick, esp on snipe towers.