Fighting a Helirush - Ranked #31 - Wargame: Red Dragon

[@filip7275]

I suppose I can give some pointers as to how counter helo rushes. There three main aspects to it. - Building your deck correctly - Recognizing a helo rush - Countering it 1. Deck building: Cheap SPAAGs are the best way of countering a helo rush, preferably without radars so they can not be SEADed. In all my decks I ran some kind of spaag or at least in general a cheap AA option. Missiles are discouraged because, while they will deal a lot of damage, they won't stun and heli can easily stun the launcher with rocket pods. Speed isn't important but I prefer something fast to have along with my opener. Second thing you want is a recon heli for spotting the rush a bit earlier. I do not advise buying planes for scouting because if your opponent starts without helis, the plane isn't useful. 2. Recognizing a helo rush: The only way to recognize who is and isn't a helo rusher is to add them to your block list. This however means that helo rushers will not type anything in chat, so you can't block them. Sinply say "hi" at the beginning of every game and if you get no response It may be someone who wants to rush you. Another thing is to pay attention to the deployment time. Deploying for a rush is pretty fast so it your opponent is quick to deploy it may be fishy. In this game however, the rank of my opponent tipped me of. They deployed rather quickly, despite being inexperienced - as for their message on chat, I assume they either weren't aware about the block thingy or didn't care about ranked enough anyway (which in that case would mean that I can probably invest in AA a bunch more and still be fine, since I am more experienced). If you suspect that the rush is coming you should deploy a bunch of spaags in the direction that serves as the shortest path between the two spawns. It's also good to get a recon helo going. If you don't spot the main blon early in the game, nor a significantly ground force, deploy recon helos around the flanks and retreat some of your aa for the spawn. In general, if you can't spot enemy forces you must do everything to find them, doesn't matter if it's a helo rush or not 3. Countering a helo rush: Buy as much cheap AA as you can. Do not buy planes, they are very cosnt inefficient. Reroute your AA to intercept the blob and protect your CV. Investing in more CVs is a bad idea since you are not investing in AA. All your other ground forces that are either too slow or ineffective against helis should be rushing for enemy spawn zone. think that mostly it

[@zecchini466]

The second one is not necessarily true, many times they are friendly just to put a swarm in your face.

[@notnopee]

Step 1: machbet Step 2:

[@agroelleogra6385]

clean

[@Coma-Berenices]

Nicely defended, But this wasn't a proper heli rush :D Those are usually done with USSR airborne (for better veterancy) and they have 330 km/h hinds in advance. Anyway, you missed 'golden era' of karagoth. Have a watch :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3XFaqeAppKlg5Y p.s. he has many videos of his 'trophies' on his channel

[@filip7275]

@@Coma-Berenices I am aware that helo rushes can get way spicier with USSR but that's the reason why I am betting mostly on BTR-152 TCM and not the Machbet. Radarless, so Ka-52 is useless and since I can have so many of them for cheap, a couple of Hinds would not be able to get through. Yeah, I heard plenty about Karagoth, one of the Wargame's legends :)