favorite and least favorite units

[belatedcube1021]

what is your favorite unit and your least favorite unit?

my favorite unit is either the jester or corsair

my least favorite unit is aeon destroyer (at least fighting them).

[belatedcube1021]

Publicado originalmente por pokemoron:

m8, fatboys are the worst exp, they take forever to construct and the shield is easy to walk under
P.S. the GC (galactic colosis) has the hight Mass to HP of any exp and can only be beaten by a meglith, if it has enugh range.

monkeys are worse than fatties (low hp which makes them an extreme cheese weapon), and GC's have no torps or even a small aa gun and can't fend off mercies, or subs

[Rworqx]

arent monkeylords known as '' they destoy nothing or everything?''

[✩ Ellectroma ッ]

With good micro they can deal good damage, but if you are ready for it, there's not much a monkeylord can do, a couple of t3/t2 mix, some pds, and some overcharges can take it down quickly but I really like them

[Rworqx]

another question can you capture enemy structers with an engineering station?

i tried it in sandbox but it wouldnt let me. i clicked capture and nothing happend ( cybran hive)\\

on topic i like the megalith the most. and dont like any naval because i am bad with it (atm)

[✩ Ellectroma ッ]

I'm not sure about that, just start a sandbox game with cheats enabled and try it

[Liobuster]

my favourite is soulripper and my hateunit is the T1 bomber from the UEF with the napalmbombs

[belatedcube1021]

Publicado originalmente por Rworqx:

arent monkeylords known as '' they destoy nothing or everything?''

correct. "the monkey is the mother of cheese weapons. they either win the game or are a nice giftwraped mass donation." -BRNKoINSANITY

[✩ Ellectroma ッ]

I like mass gifts C: unless I don't have E to reclaim it

[belatedcube1021]

the problem with maps that have lots of reclaim is that I reclaim it and I either powerstall or have too much and I mass stall around 100 (at least on the ditch)

[WittySeal]

well my favourite unit is the T3 aeon missile ship and least is the zhuee

[Chief Beef]

tech 3 harbinger IV Aeon or the galactic colossus because LAZOR!!!! :0==========

[ZaidusRecon]

Favourite unit: Swift Wind
Arch nemisis: Replicator, or Overcharge-wielding (Seraphim) SCU

I totally want to see a transforming Aeon walker-fighter. That would be awesome.

[Katsuni]

I'll confess, I love rapid fire saturation attacks and indirect-fire artillery. Therefore, the Aeon Salvation and the Cybran Scathis are my two favourites. That and "Scathis" is just a catchy name. Scathis. Scaaaathis. SCATHIS!

For least favourites? Mostly things that fail at their intended goal. The stealth field generator's rather meh since Omni sensors are so easy to get and ignore it totally. The fighter/bombers are generically bad at both roles, and amphibious tanks are sort of meh all around.

Honourable mentions of win:
- Spamming out support commanders and building under the sea
- Monkeylord due to name and pewpew laser
- Czar in standard for suicide bombing it and for spamming massed Restorers in FA
- Shield Generators and the Paragon for letting me build anything I want while derping around

Dishonourable mentions of fail:
- Yolona Oss for being bland and boring
- Almost all Seraphim units for having unpronouncable names
- UEF ACU's shoulder drones. Always watching, always mocking, hardly useful. They talk big behind your back, but can't build worth crap themselves. I'll put an end to them, though. I'll show them. I'll show them all! MWAHEHE! They called me mad. MAD! Can you believe it? Just because I nanolathed a hot tub for robots. I filled it with oil! It's not like I didn't think ahead! But no, they just float there. Judging me. Seething. Hateful little drones. Shall be fed to the lathe... yesssssss....

[belatedcube1021]

ok I realise that there is a lot of opinion in this but... there were some stuff I had to mention/disagree with.

Publicado originalmente por Katsuni:

The stealth field generator's rather meh since Omni sensors are so easy to get and ignore it totally

actually the omni range on the omni sensor isn't that big. stealth can still be a big help even in late game.

Publicado originalmente por Katsuni:

The fighter/bombers are generically bad at both roles, and amphibious tanks are sort of meh all around.

[cross]fighter/[/cross]bombers can be VERY effective in sniping enemy acus. I have done so many corsair (cybran) snipes and died to a few notha (sera) snipes. although with the janus (uef) I must agree that the stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink.
the amphibious tanks can be pretty cruel. you can either be a disrespectful player and spam so much hover tanks (only the cybran amphibious tank isn't hover but that helps it in stealth), or raid them with "imba" wagners.

Publicado originalmente por Katsuni:

- Almost all Seraphim units for having unpronouncable names

I have a theory about that: every alien name in any game was come up with by combining many letters and calling it a word.

Publicado originalmente por Katsuni:

- UEF ACU's shoulder drones.

they can be the most imba, op, and cruel things ever in small maps in early game.

[Katsuni]

I was exaggerating somewhat. Even crappy units have a niche use at times, it's just when they're horribly limited to situations that almost never happen that they bother me.

I prefer larger maps with lots of time to build up large, sprawling bases, so the shoulder drones're pretty much worthless to me and just take up a slot that could've been better spent elsewhere. In a small, close quarters fight that lasts 5-10 minutes, sure, they're useful then, but why are you even playing the game at that point? =P

To each their own, obviously.

And yes, most alien names suck like that in most games. Not everyone can be a linguistics professor like Tolkien and create entirely new languages from scratch. Most people just faceroll the keyboard and favour rarely used letters (like Y for the seraphim is abused to hell and back, as is U).

The point I was making there was that they aren't put together like actual words. A quick linguistic test is to study a set of words for a brief time, then try to write out what you think they were. If you're not very close, then they aren't likely to be "real" words since words naturally evolve over time in language to be easier to remember and more natural to make sense. There's been some rather neatish studies on it, but anyway, it's just that throwing semi-random letters together does not a language make and I hate trying to remember what each of the seraphim units are because their names are useless. =P