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Noobie: Tar cloud, yes or no?

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Kamoba:
Tar is a difficult tool to use effectively, but used correctly it'll aid a squids escape and add survivability, one skrim last night, Ightrill kept his squid alive the whole match despite taking heavy disable damage, why? His effective tar use, and to add to it, he dropped mines in the tar, making giving chase very difficult!
It is a good tool for fast ships, Squid, Fish and Junkers.
But it is not easy to use effectively, also it can be avoided if your enemy is using trifecta or bifecta on a Pyramidion, Squid, Goldfish or Junker as their angle between you, tar and them is enough that as you whizz away and tar, they naturally go around it, however should the enemy be charging head first, tar them. :)

Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah I've used it on Junkers more often. But only on Desert Scrap. If you are against munkers and they are holding the point, just turn around between the clouds and let the tar go. The wind blows it right into the point. Timing it right, you can effectively cripple every ship in the point. However, this is kinda moot now due to the point cap reductions.

Again thats a very niche case. More often you'll find kero more useful all around and the times you'll need tar are times when a vet pilot will just avoid it. You aren't going to catch them in a cloud very easily.

HamsterIV:
When you are flying a sniper ship and you run out of space to back peddle, a good strategy is to go full throttle forward and try to pass what ever ship is charging you. If you drop some tar as you pass there is a chance you will catch the charging ship in it.  This has a low probability of success, but well worth it if you pull it off right.

Kamoba:

--- Quote from: HamsterIV on March 16, 2015, 03:05:06 pm ---When you are flying a sniper ship and you run out of space to back peddle, a good strategy is to go full throttle forward and try to pass what ever ship is charging you. If you drop some tar as you pass there is a chance you will catch the charging ship in it.  This has a low probability of success, but well worth it if you pull it off right.

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Add a trade winds catapult to this and you have a good acceleration boost to pull it off more shockingly :)

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