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[mevitar]

Why did you just quote your own post that you posted like 1 minute earlier? (post removed)
 

I can actually understand. Mantisspam might seem effective and powerful when massed, but only against units.

All basic tanks use the same warhead and have same range, so they have same percentage effectiveness against all target types. If Mantises are bad against stuctures, so are other tanks.

Keep in mind that in a group of 30 Mantises, only some of them will be close enough to be able to attack your target. If you don't manually order them to get next to the structure and then attack, only the ones the closest will attack, while the ones further away will get blocked and will go around without firing anything at all. You can't just build 30 Mantises and order them to attack a target then wait until they're done, like you could with 15 Qilins, because you will lose them that way. You need to either split them and attack multiple targets at once, or keep them constantly on move.

Edited by mevitar, 27 June 2014 - 04:43 PM.

[Petya]

Odd, I could destroy War Factories and Refineries with only 5-6 Mantis Tanks. Mantis Tank requires much micro.

[Hecthor Doomhammer]

Yunru, mainly because of fanboys

[X1Destroy]

Why spam more mantises when you can build more speeder trikes? Who would spam 15-20 mantises at tier-1 to attack? 50000$ game? If so, why staying at tier 1?

Sure they are cheap, but not cost-effective as expected.

Mantis is not 2 times cheaper than other tanks, but it's at least 2 times easier to kill compared to them.

Edited by X1Destroy, 28 June 2014 - 10:36 AM.

[Meyerm]

By "worst unit" I'm thinking mostly in terms of comparing it to it's counterparts and its counters. Hence why I say Mantis tank is bad.