Titan or Thanatos?

[SAKURA]

Which to pick?

[snuggleform]

How's your AoE?

If you have shocks/lucis, just go titan. If you're lacking aoe go thanatos fo sho.

[isakujjang]

You can choose both.

If I choose one, I am a Titan ... They clear the map quick and easy.

[Andrewbh2003]

2 different units that serve 2 very different purposes

but me? i go titan

[Apex Slide]

That depends on the context and how your map spawn went.. If your map is easily defendable, then go with Titans to clear everything out and chase down the waves before they hit your defenses. If it's not easily defendable, spam thanatos until you no longer can. Being an AoE defense unit, it would take a fair bit to get through.

In fact you could easily settle for just making thanatos alone and that would probably be enough to defend the entire last wave alone with the only other defense being a wall surrounding your thanatos and base.

[PeLeSki]

I always get a couple of thanatos because they're cheap and they can really cut through the mid game waves. Then I switch to Titans to clear the rest of the map.

[Crukih]

Rangers, rangers, then more rangers.

Seriously? It depends on your playstyle. Thanatos can be good in areas where it is hard to get shocking towers. Titans can help clearing the map a lot and responding to sudden breaktrhoughs. If you can get one, titans can kite as well as rangers but with a big boost to survivability if something does wrong. Great when dealing with giants to tank a few hits whilst others burst him down.

[!?!]

Titans are better if you still got map to clear.
Thanatos is better for defense.

[One Man Army]

Titans >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanatos.
Especially if you go for the +25% extra damage.

If you have multiple Thanatos, they usually overkill a lot with their shots, and their shots have a long reload time.

[amordron]

In campaign oil is so scarce and you are hit by so many sides that its hard to stack enough thanatos per choke to really make them shine. Titans you can use to not only clear the map but help at a choke and clear is than move onto the next esp if making multi layers of walls.

Plus shock towers just outshine thanatos for defense in campaign so titan hands down.

For survival the other way.

In survival you can have the map clear with just snipers on many maps before titans even come out so might as well go with the better pure defense thanatos and without shock tower buffs in survival there better than shocks IF you went iron tier you dont need to.

If your on a map you dont clear by time you get to iron tier read 50%+ of the map left such as map 6 with the doom city than use titans as them helping to clear the map is a bonus as there only slightly weaker for defense so the duel value wins.

[!?!]

Weird.
Last time I checked, thanatos was supposedly broken op, made the game too easy etc.
Guess no more.

[amordron]

Originally posted by chris:

Weird.
Last time I checked, thanatos was supposedly broken op, made the game too easy etc.
Guess no more.

That hasen't been the case for a VARY long time. (basically start of early access) people thought that but the meta shifted 6 months or so with no change from the dev as the 50 day challenge came out and people learned just how bad going to iron tier was. Just using shock and skipping the massive upkeep and setup cost of oil and iron tier let you mass up a VASTLY larger army and shocks are only slightly weaker than a thanatos. Still needing snipers to back them up. So not going iron let you triple if not more your sniper army while only losing a small amount of aoe. That small loss of aoe is fine as its only there to kill fodder shocks one hit fodder same as thanatos so one being stronger vs the other dosen't matter. The snipers kill the important stuff and you got far more. You need to place 6 wall layers thou in the shock build for the final wave but all other waves are easier final wave is only slightly harder.

While camapign buffs shock out the roof thanatos gets no buffs at all.


The main reason for that thought was comparing shock vs thantos in a bottle disregarding the cost to unlock and maintain. While shock comes out much earlyer letting you deal with early waves better while snowballing with more gold vs iron tier rush. Making it easier at all points but the final wave slightly harder.

[!?!]

I guess that makes sense and now there are wasps too so you can cram massive ammounts of deeps where you could build nothing before.
Even less reason to go to iron.

[amordron]

Originally posted by chris:

I guess that makes sense and now there are wasps too so you can cram massive ammounts of deeps where you could build nothing before.
Even less reason to go to iron.

Exactly as wasps help to do the same job as snipers killing the high prio targets.
I would go iron for titans on the last mission thou and one other to tank mutants and giants.

[mster]

Depends, titan for map clear. Thanatos for wave defense / final wave defense. I always like to build a few titans, maybe 3-5 depending on the game and then just spam build thanatos as soon as i can.

[Vambran]

Titans are hands down better... if you have the time and space to build and maintain them. If your playing a 60 day small map than Thanatos will serve you better.

Titans need a alternate skin. that guy in the top hat... shrugs.