Pacific Front isn't about mobility. Pacific Front is about long range assaults. It's the allied counterpart of China.
Norio is a hit'n'run hero and I think for PF he is more than enough.
They're still a part of the Allies, and a core element of the Allies tactics is having agile units, such as Jets, Rocketeers and IFVs. Though I guess MO changes things up a bit, they still retain some aspects. China isn't about mobility either, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to have moderately quick units (or shouldn't they?) like the Terror Drone, Borillo or Half Track.
I just think the ideal is that the sub-factions tilt more heavily toward a specific strategy. I know that he is like a powerful fast moving hero, but he is pretty unarmored, he can't really deal with much resistance, so solely using him won't work.
I certainly don't want a Norio clone with cryo rifle for the rule of cool, but a rocketeer with anti-armor rockets. The PF need it for a mobile airforce, as the vanilla rocketeer is really lame when fighting vehicles and heavy aircrafts.
Its main weakness would still be the same as the original. Very easy to kill by AA, no HP buff at all and is more expensive. Useless against buildings and the damage is no way in hell comparable to Norio's missiles.
I don't see the issue with Rocketeers with cryo weaponry, imo, anti-armor missiles would be much more devastating and imbalanced, a fast moving air unit that would quickly be able to tear apart tanks? Or how about that if you use them to attack ore miners? Yikes. The reason I disagree with this is that, as is, the rocketeers are pretty much the fastest air unit in the game, and can quite easily evade all other aircraft and most ground units to hit vulnerable targets, such as ore miners.
I thought Cryo Rocketeers could be used to slow down enemy vehicles and Infantry, so that such things like Pacific Front's artillery units, and possibly the Battle Fortress can be complimented and supported to deal more damage, and perhaps with the addition of doing slightly more damage to Infantry, but more pricey. Pacific Front doesn't need to be as slow as China, their focus is just cryo-weaponry and long-range, but at the moment, there isn't much to support their cryo-esque strategies except for the Cryo Field. The Blizzard Tank just throws cold at people and kills them, lol, and works more like an Infantry killer, rather than a support unit. The Hailstorm is a siege unit that can work as an Infantry killer and to help slow things down, but can't be relied on for the role of slowing enemy units and Infantry because it's effects don't last very long, that and it is also too slow to move if shit hits the fan.
It's not very easy to know if such a thing would be balanced or not, but it can always be tested.
Edited by Protozoan, 15 July 2014 - 10:13 PM.
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