Halo Wars leader rush counters

I've been hearing a lot of grumbling about the leader rush in Halo Wars, so i thought i would offer the best counter I've found and invite other players to share theirs if they have found one they think is more effective. here goes:

If you see you are facing more than 1 Covenant player on 2v2 or 3v3 (or if your opponent is Covie on 1v1)and ESPECIALLY if they are Prophet of Regret, plan to be leader rushed. My friends and I adopted this strategy for this scenario:

1. Build a single supply pad or warehouse

2. Build a barracks or hall

3. build as many jackals or flame thrower infantry as you can, baby sitting the credit counter so that you build a new one as soon as you hit 100. DO NOT waste money teching your units up before you build them or building anything other than maybe one more supply pad, just put boots on the ground.

4. station your units at the base most likely to be hit or in the middle of all bases if the map allows an equally likely path to each player's base.

5. After about 10 units are on the ground for each player, begin saving for a disruption bomb, and NEVER allow your credit count to go below that level (i.e. always keep 450 banked for each player to counter the leader powers)

So far this has worked well on beating the supposedly unbeatable leader rush. Please share any of your thoughts or strategies on countering both the early leader rush and the warthog rush, I'm interested to see what others have found.

This is the best way to prevent a leader rush.

If you are playing as UNSC DO NOTupgrade flamethrowers.

If you are playing as Covenant upgrade jackals.

ANT-WARTHOG RUSH

Professor Anders is the best character to beto prevent a warthog rush.

Create an army of Gremlins (out of base).

Takea rebel base when you have around 8 up.

Upgrade them completely when you have about 20 up.

This willALWAYS beata warthog rush.

Another way is with theCovenant.

Usingyour leader of choice create an army of infantry.

Make plenty of hunters and upgrade them as well.

If attacked by warthogs but you do not have enough units to counter attack it may be wise to build jackals.

The warthog rusher could build flamethrowers to easily kill your hunters so building jackals will counter that.

For the past few days I've been playing around with leader rushes and I can say the brute leader is one of the easierst. Here is how I did it. First....

1: build your temple and followed by 3 warehouses.

2: send out your scout to collect as many resourses nearby as possible.

3: When your leader is released, send him atleaast halfway to your enemy's base. Remember to have your units teleport over at the leader.

4: After 3-4 brutes teleport to your leader rush his/her base. Keep making more and more brutes as resourses pile up. Your enemy by that time will most likely only have a hand full of infantry and maybe a turret or if covenant, his aswell leader.. Target those first and then go strait for the barracks/ hall.

5: As your destorying his/her barracks/ hall keep 2-3 brutes on the infantry until all is cleared and the barracks is demolished. Now he/she either will try building another barracks/hall or keep sending out warthogs, cyclops, elites one at a time to defend the base. This comes as now real challenge demolishing 'em easily. After bring in some wreiths or even more brutes and completly overwhelm him/her until the base is destoryed.

I can have a victory within 5 minutes or so and I only lost once out of like 10 matches. Yeah... I know its no real fight because you're playing what seems like an unfair match. I personally perfer a game lasting at lease 30 min to an hr. But hey its fun when looking for an easy win and someone to pown.