Any point in making a centurion?

[Get Donked On]

So yeah i got a centurion but then i figured cool lets make some legionaries and it seems to me that making legionaries is basically the same thing but better as i can put them in my lancer gun line and have a shielded line of lancers shoot my enemies its only 100 shield points difference anyways. Am I the only one that feels kinda underwhelmed by the centurion? i was expecting a blaster centipede on steriods but what i got is a ;egionary with a slightly bigger shield and a worse gun. I feel their shields need to either be better or their gun needs to be better but maybe im crazy. anybody else agree?

[HunterSilver]

Surprisingly, I actually feel like their speed just needs to be buffed. Their 150/s shield regen and larger sphere lets them block incendiary shots and other nasty surprises that would otherwise cause serious problems for you if you're just using legionary.

Honestly if a patch removed their gun entirely I don't think I'd notice, so yeah, I do agree that their gun exists at all but I don't feel like it's even worth buffing.

Their low speed means they will never get to fights in time though, and unless raiders are just sitting around twiddling their fingers I don't even bother to wake my centurions up since they'll take too long to move the 10 tiles to my killbox, let alone to wherever else the fighting takes place.

[XelNigma]

Dont they have a point defense gun that shoots down projectiles too?
I have not used one but I thought their description says something to that extent.

[Get Donked On]

Originally posted by XelNigma:

Dont they have a point defense gun that shoots down projectiles too?
I have not used one but I thought their description says something to that extent.

does it? also that point defense turret is shared by the diabolus and war queen wich both seem a bit higher tier in comparison especially when i can have basically the same thing for 2 less bandwith and no chip with a slightly smaller bubble

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

Surprisingly, I actually feel like their speed just needs to be buffed. Their 150/s shield regen and larger sphere lets them block incendiary shots and other nasty surprises that would otherwise cause serious problems for you if you're just using legionary.

Honestly if a patch removed their gun entirely I don't think I'd notice, so yeah, I do agree that their gun exists at all but I don't feel like it's even worth buffing.

Their low speed means they will never get to fights in time though, and unless raiders are just sitting around twiddling their fingers I don't even bother to wake my centurions up since they'll take too long to move the 10 tiles to my killbox, let alone to wherever else the fighting takes place.

i have them sleeping at my base entrance and they still feel almost pointless/
I have 1 that covers most of my melee mechs and centipedes so i guess it could be worse but the badnwitch cost really doesnt feel justified when 2 legionaries can do the same thing but better for only 1 more bandwith cost total and again not having to waste a war queen chips that i can use for mechinator upgrades

[Fish n' Chips]

Originally posted by XelNigma:

Dont they have a point defense gun that shoots down projectiles too?
I have not used one but I thought their description says something to that extent.

It does say it in the description but I'm not sure if it's actually a PD turret or if they just gave it a small gun and called it that to fit the theme of a bulwark mech.