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2.10: Defending Against The Sumo | [Back to the WarGuide]
These tips are probably the most valuable tips around. The Sumo can be nearly unstoppable, unless you have these little tricks up your sleeve: 1) Capture them with a transport, and self destruct them, or bring a captured one over to your commander and use them on your side. Because of the Sumo's slow speed, transports have an easy time picking them up and hauling them off. 2) Use Spiders. Get a few of these in with a Sumo (if possible) and start shooting. Sumos are very succeptible to the Spider's paralyzing ray. Then send in the troops to kill the Sumo. 3) Use Guardians and Annihilators. Because of the Sumos slow speed, Guardians and Annihilators can quickly reduce them to nothing before they tear through the heart of your base. 4) Have some Anti-Air to protect from drop-offs. Many Core Commanders will speed up the Sumos by dropping them off near your base. Set up missle towers not only in and around your base, but randomly around the map somewhat near your base to kill any transport that flies by. 5) Again, because of the Sumo's hindering speeds, they make an excellent target for Berthas. A few hits from a Bertha should shred any group of oncoming Sumos. 6) Don't forget Merls either. Their firepower does ok damage against Sumos and if you keep them out of range, can ruin a Sumos day pretty quickly. Lugers work the same too. 7) Nuke em! Again, slow speeds allow for good tactics, so nuke an oncoming Sumo force! 8) The cheapest, and most effective way to handle ground-attacking Sumo's is to stagger Dragon's Teeth all around your base. The Sumo's speed and turning rate is so slow that they will have a hell of a time making it through the maze, and your Guardians will have an even easier time ripping them to peices. Be sure to set up a few Guardians and/or HLT's behind the staggered Dragon's Teeth for maximum Sumo defenses.