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[Pendaelose]

and the last 3 generals.

[phenom1989]

i vote for

Infantry General for Artillery
Chem General i vote for I use both equally, or choose based my enemy.

and Tank General
Lightning Tech
ECM

[Violence]

Infantry is funky. All techs are great and the Mines can be a non-combat check-mate!!! Which is always fun to dump on your opponent in PVP..

Toxins.. I am dissappointed. Those colours and clouds do look menacing but they pale in functionality copared to Acids, surprisingly even against Infantry Gen. Of course buildings shut-down is very powerfull but it feels the problem lies with the techs and upgrades not split properly among the Escalation levels. It is purely end-game fun and it doesn't have the tools to get there. Maybe good only for support.. 2 on 2 and such.

Tank.. Well, it's a beast. Lightning tech far surpasses everything else as it is now, two of his super units can PWN Leonidas too. The Heal Tank is completely over-the-top too but that's not Lightning tech-based.. Oh well.. Honestly, just go for Lightning and you won't even need any other tech. Maybe Missiles for the Nuke but only for the added comfort and the stronger mini SW vehicles.. To which, as things are now, I prefer the regular ones which happen to require NO tech. Massive tank drops are also very impressive and really, usefull. Just for comfort though. Lightning is the way to go.

Edited by Violence, 09 August 2010 - 01:05 PM.

[Jester22]

Maybe dropping the Missile tech tree into the Nuke gen could be an option. Although, again, I will have to play more this week to have a good answer to any of this.

[FlyingDeath]

As a Toxin AND GLA Player (O no, ive outet my self :()
i must say, if you have an Toxin-Friend (Or Brother )
the mix of BOTH is Rocking, but 1-1 Toxin is merely too weak,
the defence is mid to high against Infantry, but low against Tanks AND mid to low against Planes...
so perhaps, you should add some Anti-Tank-Toxin-Rockets or something, that he is better to compete against other gens then Infantry (who is hard enough too beat, course you nearly can't kill him at mid game... and its nearly Impossible at lategame..... Thx too the Moving-Fortress^^)

but with an Acid-Toxin defence, me and my Brother rock mostly anything.... so, perhaps you should enable some "Hybrid" Units and Techs, so, Acid has a mid Anti infantry (course, why does the infantry NEVER Melt in Acid? i mean, if I threw Acid too my opponent he were melted in a second... you shouldn't overpower both, but... at least after 5 secs. Acid, an Infantry unit schould die.... (Concentratet acid) in the clouds, 7-10 secs^^)
and Toxin some Anti tank..... or Nerve-Gas (Kills the Driver) course, it sucks when you play Toxin, your opponent sees that, and he just.... "Overdrives" you....
perhaps then, Toxin would kick some ass

Greetz: Flyingdeath

PS: Pend? what is the idea of Shutting down a building, when you have too shoot it for like 10 minutes? you definitly need something RPG stile^^

[Pendaelose]

Somethings are for balance rather than realism... for example, Acids would have almost no viable effect vs vehicles in real life... if you had an acid strong enough to melt armor that quickly it would explode violently the moment it contacted air.

Acids would indeed be a most terrible death for infantry however... though the nerve agents would still be much more effective because a even tiny does is potentialy lethal.

The building shut downs... at the mid-game toxin it does take a while to start shutting them down. It's not intended to be effective when fired from a single unit but rather if several units are firing at the same time. The T3 toxin with all it's upgrades is much better at shutting down buildings... somewhere in the 10X as strong. In this case it's practical for a single unit to stop a building, or a single rocket/shell to shut down multiple base defenses.

[Pendaelose]

bumped to renew voting

[Jeno]

chose artillery for infantry general, since i really need artillery in each and every game, chose lightning for tank, since, yeah it's just so much more powerful than any other choice, and chose the both equal choice for chem gen, since i rarely use gla anyway :-)