2camelsinatinycar wrote:
The fact is, squads large enough to wipe out your damage units in one round makes damage as good as armor units, except being more expensive and having 25% lesser HP.
The only thing it's good for is to conquer newbies and their outposts.. which can be accomplished by just an APC at times.
(also a response to Ferr3t's post)I would agree to some extent but I was being attacked before I ever had enough money to upgrade all the way to Ranged units.
To STAY unconquered I had to use what was available to me.
Sure, if you threw enough range at me then all my units would die period, but when GIFT was attacking me, on both occasions I would have won due to a combination of enough armored units to keep my Damage units from dying long enough for the Damage units to do their thing.
The Range only have 1 more range than Damage and after that the Damage units have more powerful weapons. Range is only better so long as you can eliminate everything before you get close.
If you do some sort of scan and they you can determine to some degree of accuracy how many units are coming, say from the Number of squads approaching, you can then use the battle simulator to tailor an army that you won't loose with,. This works unless there are just too many units to determine within reason, how many there are. Example: On one world an enemy of mine has ... according to scans, anywhere from 210- 350 units, so I can't plan very well an exact and perfect reposte to that number, but it would have been unlikely that GIFT would have really wanted to destroy me that badly to send that number of units.
Anyway,
According to the battle simulator it would have taken about 50 Ranged Concussive tanks plus armor to destroy my army of Damage units without significant loss. Even more than that to take me without any loss. That's a pretty big commitment for one colony that isn't threatening you near the beginning of the round.
So to me, Damage units are very useful. They may not be what I want my final army to be composed of. Range always get that edge. But they are effective if used properly.
Edit: PLUS! Some of them are just freaking awesome. I just unlocked Cavalry Damage units on a Fantasy server. Amazon knights? Bear Cavalry. HOW CAN I NOT BUILD AN ARMY OF THESE!?!?!?!