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Mace vs Ducks?

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18 months ago
I just had a humiliating loss in a 1v1 where I was playing hovers and my opponent was playing amphs on an all-land mostly flat map. My opponent literally only built ducks. By the end I was building only Maces to counter, but Maces had trouble making cost against sufficiently large numbers of ducks. The Ducks in large enough groups could fire off a big enough missile volley to flatten a few Maces without reloading, so the Maces couldn't do their thing.

What's the counter here? Do I need to facswitch to Tanks or Rovers and get a riot unit with AOE? or is there a way for hovers to deal with this.

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18 months ago
One word:

Claymore

Thank me later
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18 months ago
Link the replay? Mace being built from a corner of the map will die to Duck spam with map control. Mace should win in other situations, but we can't really give tips without knowing the situation.
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18 months ago
oh whoops, i forgot the match link:

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1623445

There was kind of a map control issue, but my eco was only about 20% worse than theirs for most of the map - I wasn't turtling in the corner.

They just did the same thing to me again, but this time using mostly Bulkheads and just a few ducks:

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1623725

would love to figure out what I'm missing here.
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18 months ago
Mace isn't that great vs ducks. Claymore wipes them out. Claymore mixed with mace probably even better.
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18 months ago
Wait, does the Claymore work on land? This was an all land map, I was just playing hovers because it's flat.
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18 months ago
Yes, claymore works on land. Rolls the depth charge along the ground.
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