Ordos Vs. Harkonnen

Emprworm's Most Lethal 5 Unit Combo:     4 Laser tanks with 1 Kobra or 3 Laser Tanks with 2 Kobras
 

Emprworm's Most Lethal Quick Combo (Small Maps):  Deployed Mortar Infantry on your Opponents rock with dust support.

In General:    Laser Tanks are excellent weapons against Harkonnen.  When controlled properly they can take out Harkonnen vehicles  nonstop.  Just 1 laser tank could wipe out 20 buzzsaws if done properly.   It takes a lot of practice "working" laser tanks.  You need to always keep them moving, flowing, streaming like a river.  Approach a Harkonnen mass and quickly withdraw.  When one laser tank slows down to injury, retreat it alone while the rest push in front of it.   A Laser tank can even kill a missile tank and stay alive- this is very hard to master, but can be done time and time again if you know what you are doing.  The only way to learn how to use laser tanks against Harkonnen is simply to practice, practice, practice.   I recommend practicing against missile tanks and hordes of buzzsaws.  In no time you will be on your way to an expert laser-tanker.  Since most of the good harkonnen players will make a bazillion infantry and troopers with their buzzsaws, using laser tanks alone will not be enough.  This is where you need Kobra.  I recommend 1 Kobra for every 4 laser tanks.  

Your Major Vulnerability:  AIR!!  The Laser/Kobra combo is vulnerable to a Harkonnen Air Defense Platform.   A good hark player might use this against you.   Have some troopers go with your Kobra to fight this off.     Ordos is also vulnerable to gunships.  Since you have no ground-air turrets, the best way to defend vs. gunship is simply to be extremely offensive.    When Hark makes gunship, he will inevitably "slow down" his ground production for a while.  You must take your lasers and Kobra and keep the offense going.  Fill your base with troopers, but try not to be on the defensive!  Another vulnerability is Fremen Feyds.  The best way to stop these is to bring some dust along mixed in with your laser tanks and kobra.

Should I be Making Dust?   If its a large map, not really, unless you encounter Fremen Feydakins.  Otherwise,  they wont do much at all against Harkonnen.  Make laser tanks and Kobra for best offense.    For small maps, it is imperative that you make mortar infantry immediately and pump out dust scouts.  You wont have enough time to make lasers/Kobra on a knife fight small map.  You may be dead by then.   My BO for Ordos on a small map vs. hark will always be Barracks, scout(s), 3-4 Gas, 5-10 MORTAR.  

Get your mortar to your opponents rock INSTANTANEOUSLY as fast as you can!   IF your mortar deploys on his rock before his saws can get out, you win, pretty much hands down every time.  If he has saws that are preventing your mortar from moving in, then you can deploy your mortar behind your dustscouts and use your dusties as shields.  Buzzsaws will not be able to run them down and if buzzsaws attack your dust, they will explode like balloons when the mortar hits.  Your big goal on a small map is to get mortar on your opponents Harkonnen rock ASAP.  Then the game will be yours.

Killing Harkonnen with the Kobra/Laser combo:  Below I show two unit groups- both of them cost the same amount of money.   This is the best way to take out Harkonnen with Ordos.  Space out your Kobra, put one in front of the other, deploy, then target saws with your lasers.  Thanks to IxianMace for helping me make this video. 

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