Tau Empire XV88 broadside teams

[Welcome to the Sauce Show]

didn't the tau broadside teams be a team of three?
i havent played in a while but its now a single unit
is this a bug or was there an update

[Renfrew]

Nope, Broadsides are always a single unit, perhaps you used to build 3.

[Certified Idiot]

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Nope, Broadsides are always a single unit, perhaps you used to build 3.

Actually, I remember that a very long time ago they did used to be in teams of three, this was long before the game came to steam though. OP probably had a retail copy originally (you had to download patches off of a website manually I think, no auto updating). I seem to remember relic changing broadsides to be a unit size of 1 in one of their post release patches a few months after the game came out.

It's that, or they're confusing it with a mod like apocalypse I guess.

[Renfrew]

Good point a lot of things were drastically different before 1.2, I checked on the wiki and sure enough Broadsides were 3 units prior to 1.2, so yeah it seems like this is something exclusive to the retail and older patches.

[Welcome to the Sauce Show]

ahh yeah, i had a retail copy that explains it

[Cursed Hawkins]

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Good point a lot of things were drastically different before 1.2, I checked on the wiki and sure enough Broadsides were 3 units prior to 1.2, so yeah it seems like this is something exclusive to the retail and older patches.

Probably because they were extremely powerful in squads of three, I mean you can picture how powerful they would have been if all three entrenched just outside of a base then just blasted it away.

[Paradoks_DB]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez ꧁Renfrew꧂:

Good point a lot of things were drastically different before 1.2, I checked on the wiki and sure enough Broadsides were 3 units prior to 1.2, so yeah it seems like this is something exclusive to the retail and older patches.

Probably because they were extremely powerful in squads of three, I mean you can picture how powerful they would have been if all three entrenched just outside of a base then just blasted it away.

I'm not sure and can't check, but I think the stats of the unit technically remained very similar - I mean, each of the 3 old units should have 1/3 of the new one's firepower and HP.
What I do recall is that the 3 unit squad had huge pathfinding problems. Very often only one unit would entrench while others were walking in circles or doing nothing. I am guessing that this may have been the main reason for the change.

[Bootie Q]

I noticed also that the crisis suits have voicelines also that say stuff like "Crisis TEAM deployed" implying that there are more than one of them in a unit. I'm guessing that both broadsides and crisis suits were meant to be in teams of 3 but got reasonably shaven down, because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they're crazy good with just one.

[Cursed Hawkins]

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I noticed also that the crisis suits have voicelines also that say stuff like "Crisis TEAM deployed" implying that there are more than one of them in a unit. I'm guessing that both broadsides and crisis suits were meant to be in teams of 3 but got reasonably shaven down, because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they're crazy good with just one.

Well I can probably see the Crisis guys being in squads because they only have two options to upgrade with same with the Terminator squads.

[DrDrake]

CD version of the game without updates you could build 3 unit squad of broadsides! On steam however it was always 1 unit.