by ParticleMan
XAos wrote:
I'm not convinced they don't actually decrease your chance to win the game. The race with PM's subsequently uses a lot of actions on upgrades & moves. With fairly low VP's gains.
As opposed to getting antimatter cannon and tachyon source to power it, all those upgrades, then being chumped by plasma missile? These are really the 2 main problems, regardless of how "strong" you feel PMs are:
- they too easily counter all other weapon builds
- they often ruin the combat by giving the other player no chance to do anything, or pathetic CtH since defense has to be maxed
Many times I'm just facing down Hydran sitting there with a big tech track including Plasma Missile. Nothing I do militarily will matter since he CAN just counter with PM, and nothing else will give me a chance to fire at him. Invent all the pinning and backstabbing scenarios you want, and they are all conditional and ignore or minimize the facts above.