Is there any reason NOT to use Terminater armour?

[Green Raven]

Once the Knight has the skill?

[Bubs]

climbing and similar things. Also the dreadnought armor bonus isn't great, and all the anti-armor enemies remove that in 1 hit for the rest of the mission. it's rather stupid in that regard.

[wicked lester]

Given offense and killing fast is stronger than defense and turtling, I find that the mobility is more important than armor. I like Term on Justicar so he can have a psycannon and melee and obviously Paladins but that's it.

[Doge Vandire]

Originally posted by wicked lester:

Given offense and killing fast is stronger than defense and turtling, I find that the mobility is more important than armor. I like Term on Justicar so he can have a psycannon and melee and obviously Paladins but that's it.

is it? i thought i finally figured that game out yesterday when I turtled and the game became relatively easier.

[Weaponmaster 55]

Originally posted by hip2b²:

Originally posted by wicked lester:

Given offense and killing fast is stronger than defense and turtling, I find that the mobility is more important than armor. I like Term on Justicar so he can have a psycannon and melee and obviously Paladins but that's it.

is it? i thought i finally figured that game out yesterday when I turtled and the game became relatively easier.

No it isn't.

You are right, turtling is good.

The trick is to turtle in leaps.

There are some occasions when it pays to be aggressive, but as someone who played through the whole game using terminators i never had a problem.

[Jugg3rV]

you cannot turtle if the enemies keep hitting you from far over the map beacuse suppressionshots and the like just dont care about range ...
And armor is kind useless, at least for player units, because it gets shred far to fast.

[Yme]

Armor is also useless against damage over time, like Plague / Bleed. That said, with "free" armor from terminator you can use half-cover more freely.

[Gamefever]

Terminators cannot leap across chasm's that power armor soldiers can and there are a few maps that literally force you to fight through more guys simply because the only other way across to the primary objective is to use a mass teleport.

Although not too many maps, like 3...But when they come up, if you want to skip some massive pulls its teleport across the chasm avoid 3 pods and one not objective spewer thingy.