Hosticide

Welcome Halo Wars 2 Players, Hello fellow RTS players from both Xbox and PC! I am Hosticide, or Chris, and I welcome you to the Halo Wars 2 section of Meta Plays! Today is launch-day for a lot of exciting content, including a bunch of planned Halo Wars 2 Tournaments! I wanted to create a forum post to get things started and to get to know each other. So let's introduce ourselves! Some easy stuff to say in your posts: Your Gamertag. Your favorite/main leader(s). How long have you played the Halo Wars series? Your matchmaking experiences Something you want changed or added to Halo Wars 2 There are just a bit of topics you can add to your post if you want, or don't I'm not your parents. Here is my post below to get us started! I am Hosticide (GT: BtC Hosticide). I have played the Halo Wars series since launch day of the original Halo Wars. I entered the competitive scene on launch day of Halo Wars 2 by playing matches in Gamebattles and being a top finisher in Breaking the Clutch's first ever tournament in March 2017. Even since then I joined the staff of BtC and I have hosted countless tournaments in the community. I was one of the three main organizers and a caster for the Halo Wars Championship League for four seasons, A tournament organizer for Halo Wars Tournament Central, and now I am here as a caster and moderator for Meta Plays. My 4+ years in the Halo Wars competitive scene will give me the experience to cast here with Nakamura for these future events, and I cannot wait to see how they turn out! As for gameplay, my favorite leaders are Kinsano and Atriox. I have been a consistent Kinsano player since her release in Season 1, but recently picked up Atriox for his viability in online ladder. If I could some stuff to Halo Wars 2, I would add a forge mode and a custom games browser. These two additions would basically give the game unlimited replayability! Now that I have given you some info about me, what's up with everyone else?! ~Hosticide

Atriox Quick Expo Rush Overview This is a Rush Strategy It emphasizes on using Atriox's Counter Measure and Fortifications leader powers Heavy use of Atriox's Chosen and Jump Pack Brutes Unit Composition Atriox's Chosen (1 Upgraded) Grunts (5-6 grunts for Nodes and gathering) Jump Pack Brutes (As many as possible) Chopper (1 for scouting) Build Order Build 2 Grunts Harvester (Upgrade) Power Extractor (Upgrade) Harvester Harvester Build an Expansion War Council (On Natural Base) Raid Camp (On Expansion Base) Raid Camp (On Expansion Base) Raid Camp (On Expansion) Destroy War council after Atriox built and upgraded Power Extractor (Upgrade on Natural Base) In-Depth and In Order At the Start of the game, start building your 2 grunts, and a single harvester. With your starting grunts, have two take resource crates and one take power crates. Upgrade the Harvester when it is completed. Split the two grunts built with the first one built going to power crates and the second one going to resources crates. Continue to send grunts to take resource crates on the map, in spare time, until the have taken all the crates on your side of the map. When the grunts finish taking all the crates, have them begin to take power nodes on the map. in the meantime, Queue up your next two harvesters, and upgrade your Power Extractor. During the time waiting for your two harvesters to complete, build the forward expansion in front of the natural base. Back on your main base, Build and upgrade Atriox's chosen to protect the expansion base being built. Once the Expansion completes, build 3 raid camps on the expansion and triple pump out JPBs (Jump Pack Brutes). Group up your units and head out to begin attacking, harassing, and pumping out brutes until Tech 2. When the Chosen has his tech 1 upgrade, destroy your War Council and replace it with an upgraded power extractor. Once this is all setup, it should be between 4-5 minutes, to ensure an early rush does not destroy the forward expansion. EDIT: UPDATED FOR 2021, switch out one of the raid camps on 8, 9, or 10 and build an apex for heals if they attack or socut the expo early on in the game! Any questions on the guide? Please comment below! will edit later with a demonstration of this build!