Defeating Romulous on the ITF, let me count the...
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Biowraith,
Posted on: 2009-06-19 10:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Hehe, some good stuff here. Will definitely have to try out some of the methods I haven't gone with before. 
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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Firstly, the problem with the roof:
- It doesn't stop ambushes.
- It doesn't separate Rommie far enough from the Healing Essence to stop him from getting healed.
- He starts sliding down the pitch of the roof because... THE ROOF IS PITCHED! Then he falls off and we get all sorts of agro.. you know, from three EBs that are now also getting healed by the Healing Essence.
- Because of the A frame roof, guess who gets separated in the Line of Sight from Rommie? Yep, the Healing Essence. Which is often harder to kill than Rommie.
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you're right, the ambushes don't stop, but they're nothing big to deal with to a real team. I can't remember the last time I died, or someone on the team died to one of those ambushes on the roof.
You're not supposed to pull him back onto the roof, but fight him on the front ledge on the corner, he doesn't slide, because he's standing on a flat surface.
the thing is, if done right, the nictus are still in LoS of Rom, but the buffs/heals are blocked he still manages to eat them to rez, but their buffs/heals don't touch him.
another option is: if the person who pulls rom uses a single target attack, have someone with Hover blast the healing nictus on it's way up to the roof with single target damage to pull it up into the air away from Rom. it's easy, takes little time, and it keeps it out of range. I'm usually the person who does this with my corruptor/crab when my team decides to head to the roof.
One of the benefits to taking out Rom first, especially on teams you're not too sure can do it, is that if you try to take him out and fail enough times that people start to get frustrated and leave, you didn't waste all the time to get to him just to fail, and can start over with a better team sooner if you've got the time.
That said, I still prefer to fight the way there. it just comes in handy to know how to do the other "tricks" properly.
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Pull Rommy down onto the grass
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That sounds dirty. 
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Pull Rommy down onto the grass
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That sounds dirty.
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Roll, roll, roll in ze hay!
I liked My First Rommy Strategy.
I flail around and pull rommy around the room like I'm crazy (of course). Scrapper who somehow has scrappertaunt taunts a fluffy thing into combat with him.
Rommy and I stand twelve feet from each other and engage in an epic eye-laser duel. Seriously, that's all we did for like five minutes straight while the rest of the team fought the fluffy things up on the platform.
Apparently, Rommy likes eye lasers as much as I do!
Let ME count out a few ways too...
1) Resurrect Remus from the dead for a little wolf brother zombie vengeance.
2) Tell Captain Mako Romulus is crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
3) Infuse Rommie with another Nictus so they have a turf war. Hilarity ensues.
4) Tell Romulus that Nictus is actually Latin for Cooties.
5) Inform Statesman that Romulus called him "little half-helmet."
6a) (Heroic Version) It's freaking TIME TRAVEL people! Go back to when Remus and Romulus were babies and take them to a human couple before the wolves show up!
6b) (Villainous Version) It's freaking TIME TRAVEL people! Go back to when Remus and Romulus were babies and rub raw steak on them just before the wolves show up!
7) Make sure there are several cat girls on your team (no difficulty there). Sprinkle cat nip on the fluffies. Announce in team the similarities between the fluffies and balls of yarn.
8) Pull Romulus up to the roof. Point out to him the deplorable condition of the tiles there and that the first rain storm will likely go directly into his throne room. Advise him that you know a guy who could do the work cheap. Then proceed to tie him up in zoning ordinances and local permit committees. By the time the work is approved Romulus will have lost faith in all human government and the Nictus will have left in disgust.
9) Provide Romulus with documented proof that Nictus have been known to cause impotence in middle aged males.
10) Say you'll aggro the healer; then go send some risque PMs to the team empath.
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
An all kinetic team practically had Romulus and his fluffballs doing
nothing. 8 kins drained them of all thier endurance, but damaging
them did take a while. 
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4. Pull and seperate the healing Nictus from Rommie, beat him the required number of times with squishies diving for cover when he drops.
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This is the only strategy that ever seems to work for me. Since I basically only ever do the ITF on a PUG and this is the easiest one to explain.
That's one of the things I love about the ITF, there's multiple ways you can go about it depending on your team, skill level and mood.
I like how Rom gets easier as you take him down and he uses up his bunnies (using that name forever now), and then you go and rampage on the towers. It's a great catharsis to one of the most epic Task Forces in the game.