Have a look at my post about the merge on the other articles talk page. To sum it up, I am deleting the templates, if you disagree then go right ahead and put them back.
Darkcraft12:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Italic text"So called tank rushing is one of the main arguments against the real-time strategy genre, and is most likely a reason for the popularity of real-time tactical games."
I am changing this portion to retain the reference to RTT, but I am adding a quick discussion of the game designer's role in limiting the inevitability of tank rushes. Good game design can limit the likelyhood that multiplayer matches will degenerate into single-unit rushes.
In addition, I added an extended discussion about the use of rushes, their advantages and disadvantages, and two variations on the basic rush.
Incorrect Opening Sentence
"Tank rush is a tactic often used in Real-time strategy video games where the focus is to amass a large amount of armored attack vehicles to attack your opponent with rather than focusing on strategy"
In this case, "Tank rush" would be a strategy since it is an overall plan for victory. The use of the tanks themselves during the attack is a tactic, albeit a very simple one. Therefore the opening sentence would be more accurate if it read
"Tank rush is a strategy often used in Real-time strategy video games where the focus is to amass a large amount of armored attack vehicles to attack your opponent rather than focusing on creative tactics"
Rushing is not limited to games that use WW II combat methods. E.g.
Tank rush mentions Starcraft at least twice (
Zergling rushes; use of Reavers to stop rushes). Similar tactics are found in historical / fantasy settings, e.g. "grunt" rushes in Warcraft and successors (the Grunt is the cheapest, lowest-tech Orc unit in Warcraft; Warcraft II is the ancestor of both Starcraft and Age of Empires, where the Clubman rush is the equivalent).
Even in games that use WW II combat methods tanks are not the only rushing units. In Red Alert 2 and offshoots, Engineers (to capture and sell critical enemy buildings), Terrorists / Crazy Ivans (to blow up critical enemy buildings) and Terror Drones (to destroy enemy vehicles) can be used in rushes.
Philcha (
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10:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)reply