Custom Map #8856: Asteroid Hop with Rail Gun. By: Henzbug

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Author: Henzbug
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A VERY challenging map. Features a custom creeper rail gun, which every 30 seconds sucks in nearby deep creeper and shoots it out in a powerful blast at your buildings. Keep your finger on the pause button and get ready to move your beams out of trouble. Anticreeper protects very well against the gun, but you'll have to fight to get any ore. You'll also need to terraform asteroids to get your relays to connect. #CRPL #CustomUnit #Challenging

[Johnny Haywire]

You actually don't need to pause the game at all or keep rebuilding units like crazy, unless you want to.

If that sounds like what you'd like to do but you're not sure how, just keep in mind a few items that don't die quickly:
1) Forge. Sure, the name is "Ford" and "Dodge" stuck together, but the forge is a much-needed investment for sure. But... how will I power the totems? Collectors and relays die so easily!
2) Guppies. Neither the guppy itself nor its base die super-easily. But how will you protect them?
3) Cannons. Cannons take a lot of damage and clear out creeper. But what about the spores? Yeah, cannons will clear the creeper from these spores just fine.

Hopefully you can figure out the rest from there. If you want a bonus idea, you can take out the Air Exclusion Tower at the start of the game, but that will likely require pausing.

This is a really cool map - I like the idea of an enemy super-weapon that requires constant vigilance. The islands were a nice touch too.

Thanks for the map!  ;D ;D

[Twi]

I really liked the idea of this too, but I wasn't having much progress. I thought about using guppies, but figured the energy cost wouldn't be worth it. I'll give it another go :)

[Johnny Haywire]

Yeah, so the guppy idea - landing in creep - is a bit annoying because you have to watch the health and move it away at the last split-second. If that gives you an anxiety attack, do it at 1 or 2x speed. But you can easily do it at 4x speed if you just watch the numbers or have a good sense of timing. Once you have enough power & firepower the top emitter is pretty easy to take down. Then you can just walk away and let the guppy feed the totem while you watch a movie.  ;)