I've built Scarabs in the past and it seems like they are a waste of money. It is the most power unit in the game, don't get me wrong. However, it's big and flashy and it immediately becomes the target of all enemy forces. So it gets completely destroyed right off the bat when you have it and your other units go up against another enemy force.

I don't know. It seems like a waste of money and unit space.

I've used it a few times, and its best in conjunction with a team attack. I built two scarabs and sent them in at the same time as my 2 team mates army. They concentrated their fire power on the enemy forces to protect me, while I took out bases. It was pretty effective because they kept all the enemy forces off my scarabs so they wouldnt die.

I think it took us 8 minutes to wipe out 6 bases.

I don't know. 1 Scarab and 30 engineers seemed to make it live forever....

how do you build a scarab? do you have to pick a certain leader or something?

quote madmike0148

how do you build a scarab? do you have to pick a certain leader or something?

Build them from the Citadel.

If they have Forge Scarabs is useless, as 3-4 Grizzly's could take it out easy.

But if your doing a team rush, then Scarab works wonders and gets the enemy stumbled on what to build.

scarabs are worthless. at least in most practical situations. until they get 1 or more veterancy levels they dont justify their own existence. however, if you build like 2 or 3 engineers, and send in the rest of your army first, and have the scarab be long range support, it works wonders. the enemy cant get to it cus you're in the way, and by the time it does break through you're front line there's nothing left that can damage it. if you're doing things right. scarab also demolishes cutter and most covenant units.

Or have 1 Scarab and 30 engineers, it will never die!

thats what i was gonna say. they would have to first take out the Engineers before they could start damaging the Scarab and by that time it would likely be too late.

Hard to do. The engineers just heal each other. lol.

quote Darknet

Hard to do. The engineers just heal each other. lol.

well than just tell them to heal the Scarab. If the Scarab isn't hurt they will then heal themselves.

In a 1 v 1, I find Scarabs sorta pointless, a pop. of regular units fairs better. However, in a 3 v 3, they are beast. You have one player build a Scarab and 30 Engineers, which owns on it's own, and the two other players will be supporting it, taking out serious threats and destroying the units so the Scarab can just come in and rip the buildings.

Of course, unless you face Cutter. 4x Mac Blast kills on Scarab. I should know, I did that three times in a game tonight

what if you went 3v3, and 2 guys on your team made 1 Scarab each and the rest Engineers, and the 3rd guy made all Engineers and split them between the 2 Scarabs, so that way each Scarab has like friggin...50 or 60 Engineers (im assuming your allies Engineers can heal your Scarab, not sure). if that happened, would 4 MAC blasts be able to take out the Scarab before the 60 Engineers could heal it? or would the MAC just kill the Engineers and probably the Scarab too?

The Mac would destroy a Scarab. They don't have time to heal, its dead in 1 second.

On another note in an online game today I destoryed a Scarab with 1 Elite Honor Guard

geez one time me and these 2 guys were both coventent we just rushed the othe team then we backed off so we told the phopept dude to kill off our guys and we built 6 scarabs it was very very funny afterwards