Can you fang-carry if your opponent expects it from ROUND ONE??! "Impossible is NOTHING" 

In a real game though you'd be teching and building into sledgehammers vs forts. Surely any rational player would switch to Fort carry and use the fangs for chaff? Building sledges into forts is like donating MMR to your opponent.

Ignite?

@@MrHighRaw Fang carry games tech very early into Fangs and build a ton of them early on too so that they can scale. Once that is done it is very difficult to completely abandon that strategy and go with Fort carry instead. Because the board is also built in a way that the Forts will be the frontline protection and not the carries. Armored Sledges are not countered by Forts. I keep hearing that but it is simply not true. A level 1 Fort needs 2 shots for a level 2 Sledgehammer with armor. A level 2 Fort still needs 2 shots for a level 3 Sledgehammer with armor. That is just not very efficient. Of course your Sledges won't be the carries anymore then. They'll be the chaff just like the Fangs would become the chaff. Obviously once the Forts drop you need some sort of heavy hitter. Artillery, Boats and Melter are all good options. I prefer a mix of Boats and Artillery. I've ran into this strategy a bunch of times after Surrey featured it extensively on his channel and this approach has always worked out even when the opponent actually tried to adapt. The strategy as a whole is very rigid and inflexible because of the necessary heavy early investment into the Fangs.

@@TheGrouch91 correct. In a real ranked game I had armored rhinos

@@MrHighRaw Depends on how fast he transitions, sledges can beat forts easily.

Dont think splash is commonly played? so i assume many dont have it equpied?

@@jonathanwennstromm1578 yes. It will work without too

@@jurigolomako5188 defintly, enemie can still pivot though When does on consider a fang spam a fang spam at 5 fangs early i wouldnt go full mustangs yet, maybe starting at 7'ish?

@@jonathanwennstromm1578 nobody goes 5 Fangs in turn 1 without intention to play Fang spam and you need to act quickly. But you can do whatever you want, if it works for you

and few crawlers in front of forts to protect those and barriers from big hitters

Yes to flank. Since it's a sparring session I wanted to push the limit of AM mustangs. As for elite recruitment, it's absolutely needed after round 4 if I still have lvl 1 fangs. Because of the early fort I was able to get a few levels PLUS i had double tech (range + mech rage), making elite recruitment unnecessary And as for splash mustangs, i think it's worth a try. It adds more swing to the engagement as it realy depends on how quickly my fangs can take out the mustangs before batches of them are wiped.

Depends on when they enter and how the counters would be. Wraith would prob stand a greater chance than tanks

Anti missile mustangs

It's really not that bad if your mustang isn't doing something else

Nobody has armor on Vulcans that's the problem. Armor on other things does indeed counter Fangs.

in my experience Stang/Crawler/Fort is the answer and sometimes armor rhinos/balls can be good to mix in as well. Super late it can be ok to add range/EMP melters if opp has significantly more forts than you.

Crawlers will lose once there is a critical mass of leveled and teched Fangs. Even with Tunneling they can't get to the Fangs anymore. Sledges with Armor eat this strategy alive. The Fangs do no damage to them and at level 2 an armored up Sledge also survives 2 level 1 Fortress shots which makes Forts quite ineffective against them. Need some heavy hitters in the back to get through the Forts though. Either Stormcallers, Melters or Boats. Probably a mix of 2 of those.

Crawlers dont do well vs mech ranged fangs, even if they have underground. You can try a hail mary with underground AND photon boats, but if it doesn't work you're dead on arrival.

Unleveled Fangs become threatening to giants with ignite but ignite itself doesn't scale. If your Fangs are you carry units you want techs that scale with them.

@MrHighRaw ah I understand. Thanks for the reply!

AP helps vs armor techs. Ignite does too to an extent but it is not very efficient vs armored smaller targets while AP is.

AP is more flexible than ignite, and can do decently well vs shields and other medium units