Maleceptor

[archelonian]

I like the idea of the maleceptor, but feel like it needs at least a small buff. Its slightly tougher than other units of its tier, is a synapse unit, and has a support ability to reduce the damage adjacent units take, however it is expensive, competes with the exocrine for research/initial building, and has negligible damage to any unit that is not completely broken. By the time you can research and field a maleceptor you should already have several synapse units on the field and you don't really need another expensive one. Its support ability is on a 3 turn cooldown making it worse then the much cheaper venomthropes (which deal decent although generally not amazing damage) since theirs is a passive ability. Finally even if a unit is completely broken they are only able to deal similar amounts of damage as an exocrine to the same target.

Would like to see its support ability turned into a passive aura and maybe have its attack ability get an extra attack (2->3). It would still do pitiful damage against anything with decent moral but at least it would have higher situational damage, which could help justify its high cost.

[Jey]

In the beta, the Maleceptor receives its 6 missing HP.
Its psychic skill also ignores armor (it "only" has 8 AP currently).

It's good enough, it's a very strong unit, it doesn't need any buff.