Orkulus Rush

Build in own gravity well as VR, tech to T8, unlock Starbase Mobilization, and lay waste to enemy worlds.

I was imagining more like an early game rush where you start building it in their system within the first few minutes of the game, but maybe this just won't work?

If you build it in their well early on, i think its extremely likely they will engage (and maybe destroy) before its upgraded.

If you however take a little extra time to fully upgrade it, then just warp it in, thats a huge surprise gambit.

Oldschool SB rush took some skill. This mobilization crap doesn't require anything. Ourterra can do it.

Well, you can do Assault Deployment Orky rush quite fast, but there are players that can pull out jumping Orkies within 30 minutes.

This might be a dumb question, but why don't they just kill you while you're building your 8 research labs?

I believe it is because you can have upgraded Orkies long before the labs are done defending your borders.  I've never done this tactic simply because I don't like abusing OP strategies.  I think Greg tried it one time.  You could ask him.

It's mainly eco players who manage to do this...if you are protected on each flank by an ally, it is virtually impossible for someone to prevent you from getting the labs and the planets to support such an endeavor...

Even unskilled players can do it really easily if they have good frontliners...nothing more aggravating than surviving suicide spot only to have both flanks hit by moving SBs (and other shit) while you're dealing with cleaning up 2 players....

I'm almost on the "Refund me Steam" bandwagon, but dealing with Steam customer support is like running the Boston Marathon with a rusty cheese-grater between your ass cheeks and half a grapefruit taped over your crack. 

Yeah I pulled it off more than once sometimes against skilled player. 

While you can plant sb accompanies with skirantra with repair cloud and fleet that you are building and build it up from scratch in 3-5 min the mobilization rush is different.

You do need fleet for that I usually plant sb at choke point and have small fleet to defend if he tries to bypass. Problem with bypassing is that his ships once leaving grav well with SB will take damage and he wont be able to bring reinforcements and usually player that is defending has advantage due to having his factories closer and he can respond and can build counters and/fleet faster. Then It is just a matter of getting 8 labs + resources for research which is not such a big investment.

Usually guy who I was fighting spend his resources to try to develop fleet or eco up. If he doesn't get ogrows in enough numbers very soon because of corvettes you can spam his attempt is futile....

PS as vasari it is very easy to defend against SB rush. SB combined with turret that has anti passive regeneration on it will do the trick ....