Taking Advantage of Chokepoints in Strategy Games

Strategy war games almost always have scenarios where there are chokepoints. Chokepoints can be a huge advantage to winning a strategy game. This article will explain what a chokepoint is and how it can be used.

A chokepoint is a small narrow path where enemy troops have to funnel through in order to reach another area. These chokepoints are usually bridges or paths between forests and mountains. Basically, chokepoints are where you can expect enemy soldiers to move through in some point of the game.

To take advantage of this, you should try to overwhelm and dominate chokepoints as soon as possible. This will cause your enemy to be cut off from a passageway. This also makes you more maneuverable. If the enemy can’t get there and you can, you can collect resources or create a strike force, or do something useful with the space your enemy doesn’t have.

One of the best examples of using a chokepoint is playing on Advance Wars. I’ll quickly explain a scenario that I encountered during gameplay. In short, there was a bridge. The enemy had tanks, but I only had infantry. I had more resources, but I needed time to build ordnance. I placed the infantry on the bridge to stall the tanks and wait for reinforcements. In the time my infantry bought, I was able to produce more and even stronger tanks than the enemy, which provided me a very easy win.

In another example, chokepoints can also be used as excellent spots to hold an ambush. As explained above, the enemy and you will some point have to traverse through chokepoints on the map. Say that a chokepoint is made due to forests on either side of the road. You know that the enemy will be sending a large battalion of tanks and infantry. In response, before the enemy send the attack, you place your own infantry equipped with anti-tank and personnel weapons (explosives all the way!) behind the bushes and trees. As the battalion moves through the forest, your ambush can quickly eliminate the opposing forces, or at the very least do very significant damage.

Chokepoints in strategy games are tactical positions that should be held early on in the game to provide an advantage in the middle-game stage. Just remember, whoever gets to the chokepoint first owns it!

Benefits of Having High Honor in Red Dead Redemption

In the Wild West, a selfless person who was willing to die for others would usually find himself dead with nothing in return. In Red Dead Redemption however, being an honorable person and assisting those in need comes great rewards.

In Red Dead Redemption, you can shape your character into a positive member of society by doing good deeds. By far, being good is definitely harder than being evil. Good deeds require patience and effort, two qualities that can be an annoyance for most, but if you are willing to spend the time to attain a high honor level, you can expect those efforts to be rewarded.

At high honor levels, shopkeepers will find a positive air about you, and trade greatly towards your favor, as much as buying for higher prices and selling for lower! Thieves’ Landing however, has a certain dislike to goody-two-shoes and offer outrageous prices to players with high honor. In fact, criminals who reside at Thieves’ Landing may open fire at you just for being a good person!

When your honor level is at maximum, a random event might pair you with a nun who has been searching for someone with a kind heart. This nun will award you with the Obscuridad del Santo Andres. This miraculous item will make the player have a 25% lower chance of being hit by bullets.

Above all this, the player will have earned the respect of civilized townsfolk to the point where they will let small and minor crimes slide. Besides, everyone knows that if you run over a dog with a horse is definitely an “accident” right?

Finally, here is the greatest reward of all. Not getting shot every time you enter a town!

Be sure to read this article about the benefits of having low honor in Red Dead Redemption.

Benefits of Having Low Honor in Red Dead Redemption

Being a low-life scum in Red Dead Redemption may not be as bad as it sounds. Here are the benefits of having a low honor level in Red Dead Redemption.

The first benefit of having low honor is that you take what you want, from whoever you want. If you like that horse, it’s yours. If that person seems to have too much money, it’s yours. You can basically take whatever you want if you wish to live an outlaw’s life.
Making money is much easier too. Although regular shopkeepers won’t like you, the ones at Thieve’s Landing do! You can buy items and sell your wares at Thieve’s Landing for good prices given you have a low honor level. On top of that, you can rob people and banks for money as well, so wherever money is, you just need a way to get to it.

Having very low honor can fear the citizens enough to not report minor crime you make. Did you run over that puppy and enjoy it? Well no justice will be done since the townspeople are too afraid to report it to the lawmen.

Finally, an honor level of Desperado allows you to whistle for the Dark Horse. The Dark Horse is one of the best horses in the game due its very special ability. It can go on unpaved areas with no speed or stamina penalty. This means you can quickly travel across the lands and avoid roads if you wish.

Does living the life of an outlaw really what you want to become? Do you really want to be carrying too much money on your back to the point where it hurts to move? If that is a life that you don’t mind living, the life of an outlaw may just be the life for you!

Alternatively, if all the hype doesn’t attract you to being evil, there are also plenty of benefits from being a person with high honor.

Using a Sniper Rifle in a Halo: Reach Matchmade Game

Halo: Reach’s sniper rifle is the most deadly weapon in the game. If used correctly. This article will explain how to use the sniper rifle to its maximum capabilities.

The sniper rifle, like Halo 3 has a clip size of four bullets. A regular sniper rifle will generally have twelve bullets in total. This means that if you use this powerful weapon properly, you should be able to score at least twelve kills.

One sniper shot to the body will completely take out a player’s shields. Two body shots will kill. A shot to the head is an instant kill. Already you can see how little effort is needed to kill or at least damage a player.

Like any sniper, a good vantage point is always appreciated. This means getting to a high, preferably hard to see spot where you can rain bullets without too much fear of getting shot back. To make this more effective, many players choose to also bring a secondary long-ranged weapon such as a needle rifle or DMR. By bringing one, a marksman can conserve ammo by hitting the body with a sniper shot, and finishing off with a secondary to the head. This way, a sniper can easily score a full twelve kills before running out of ammo.

Unlike other first-person shooter games, the sniper rifle in Halo: Reach has a definite crosshair. Instead of zooming in to line up an accurate shot, the sniper in Halo has a small circle that defines where the bullet where go. This means that when you’re shooting a sniper rifle without scoping in, the bullet will still fly straight, meaning you do not have to zoom with a sniper to score a headshot or body shot. If used properly, this could also make the sniper rifle stronger than the shotgun in close quarter combat since a headshot is an instant kill. Alternatively, a shot to the body and a melee attack will do in the player as well.

A huge difference between the sniper rifles in Halo: Reach and Halo 3 is that Reach’s sniper rifle can completely wreck vehicles. Two or three shots can easily take down a Banshee, and about a clip can take out Covenant Wraith. By simply possessing a sniper rifle, any enemy vehicle is in danger from sniper shots.

In conclusion, the sniper rifle is pretty beast. If you find it, take it. If the other team has it, hide. Practice using the sniper whenever you can, because if you put enough effort into using the long-barreled gun, you can become the most dangerous player in the game.