Fun Gamemode: Bomb Bot MADNESS

Picture via @burntcustard

This is the second time I've commentated this game type, and it's a ton of fun. In this recent one, burntcustard got up to over 3,000 bomb bots! And look at those scorch marks!

Here's the PA Stats link for that match. Unfortunately, burntcustard disabled PA Stats. But, imagine Mered's economy and unit count as three times as large as Mered's. It was nuts.

The Game Type Rules

Bomb bots only! It's that simple. No other units or buildings that can deal damage aside from bomb bots and your Commander. That does mean Advanced Economy buildings and fabbers and radar is allowed! No walls, laser towers, pelters, air units, orbital, or mines are allowed.

I'd highly recommend playing this game type!

It's unique, and tons of fun! :-D

Here's the previous Bomb Bot Madness match I commentated. The game pictured above will be posted on PA Matche's youtube channel later this week.

Are walls allowed?

No.

sounds like fun ^^

It is a ton of fun!

Very unique, which is half of the fun.

I tried something similar to this against the AI (I only used bomb bots, of course the AI wasn't tied to the same rules, so it was against the easy. Doing it against the nukeaholic normal didn't seem... healthy.)
It was hell, to say the least.
Any attacks he threw at me were simple enough to thwart, luckily there wasn't any serious air threat from him, but even when I saved up a few hundred bomb bots they were shredded by his turrets and uber cannon.

I never truly finished it (he eventually got to T2 and I made a split second decision to turn to nukes and shellers) but one day I want to try again.

Turrets shred bomb bots. :-/

They should probably be faster, and formations just spread them out and make them get destroyed faster.

They're far from done. But when everyone uses just bomb bots? It's a lot of fun.

This game, especially after the 40 minute mark, was just insane.

Turns out that I made an early peace pact with burntcustard, we proceeded to steamroll everyone else out of all their map control, then it just went downhill from there. Funny thing is, he was only using about 1/3rd of his bots at any one time. The rest were patrolling the center of his base. Lag for all!

Anyway, the last ten minutes in real time constituted about 30 seconds of game time. The lag was so bad we were waiting for 10-15 seconds for each frame at 1:06, which is when I detonated......which took 2.5 minutes of real time to register and activate. Lol.

If it goes past 1k bots on both sides, just concede. The lag was too much lol

It seems to me as if walls would be an interesting thing to have in this gamemode, just say that you cannot completely wall off your base, there must be at least 10 bomb-bots worth of open space somewhere along a walled-off base. That way you can funnel enemy bomb bots around as a defense or something.

That was fun to watch. I want to play it.

When you watch the latest match, you'll figure out why we don't want walls.

well, I can't wait until it's up then.

How do you guys organize these games? Are you all friends or part of the same clan or something?

Funny.

We are all in Realm.

I don't pay attention to the clans usually, brian doesn't have the sig, don't think I've seen the other two players in the first vid on the forums before. However I did just notice it in the description of the video for the first game.

While I'm technically apart of the Realm, I try to have that as a backseat.

I try and be bipartisan, be it clan or caster, for the sake of having PA Matches be a community oriented website with no favoritism or exclusion.

That would explain it. Though after watching this video, I decided to try and join the Realm, it would be cool to have a stable group to play PA with!

The realm is a pretty great group of guys who play a bunch of different games – a lot of them are strategy games.

We certainly have a lot of fun organizing some pretty great games.

Even if you don't join the realm, I recommend joining a clan. It's fun.

Everywhere, Replicants everywhere.

I feel like PA will end up with three clans...


The Federated Republic of the Realm Empire

The Allied Coalition of the Rebellion

The Independents

Where did ballistic logistics end up?