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Nevermind, I have posted on the AoS discord server.

Have further related thoughts on rally to leader tupe function. Will articulate point by point when have time tomorrow.

Yes please.

Meca mantis is too slow and expensive to be of any use. Hercules is only good for home defense because its too slow at speed 2. Could never counter goliaths or acp because they can literally run around it. Like it or not, the war pincer is the only unit that can meet the operational requirements in ...

Smile I always imagined it like a bio analogue of a battletech mech. In practice, it comes closer in use to a goliath. Not sure what others think. I dont see many bug players.

Midonik, I understand what you are saying. I must disagree with you tegardong the warpincer role. It is a mainstay unit on land, as the only unit that can stand against human artillery and reptilian armour. All other insectoid bio units lack endurance. Insectois armour is not cost effective and gets...

Coming back to yor previous point. I have tried spamming elite infantry using larvae, spamming queens with grubs from TC and recycling crap units. It was never eanough. The resource investment for queens is too deep. Now, maybe it is just me. Or maybe something is off. That being said, returning to ...

I agree something needs doing for the meca spider. Too slow and no punch. Reducing cost of scorpion also makes sense. For the battle meca, increading speed would help. It can also be left as is if the devs see it as a defensive unit first.

Please elaborate. What other areas? When a 2 cost base infantry has more firepower than most light tanks, I fail to see your point.

I noticed this both in game and via a map editor check. On plain terrain, warpincer has speed 3 and moves 2 squares. After honey injection, unit stats list speed as 3+1 but movement remains limited to two tiles. Am I missing something?

I agree with sombrar. Insectoids are far more reliant on organics.

In late game insectoids have little protection against enhanced reptilian energy weapons. Increasing range, and strenght of meca acarab shield would sllow for a balance. This could tequire the player invest in some tech.

Leafy and I are in a match over the sea of poison
I destroyed a transport over the toxic lake. The rocket arty piece was left. It cannot move but is still in the game.

Ok. I checked again. You are right, it works like it's supposed to. Apologies for wasting everyone's tome on this.

I will check again on the corpse thing.

In relation to the incubator, these structures take too long to build to be effective at the front. Coupling them to a group of queens, in order to harvest useless units that can be hatched takes too long to make a difference in a MP game.

To be clear, i am concerned about the spiked larvae emitted from the nydus worm. It seems to me that they dont get generated unless there is a corpse. I tried cross checking using the map editor, but failed because i cant get it to recognize the techd even if i set the map with all techs.

It looks like the Swarm frigate emits unused spores at the end of each turn. This does not happen if the spore
was used

The offensive flies locusts etc need a minor tweak to make the Nidus worm operationally effective. It takes too long to build eanough locusts to launch any kind of attack. Also, were the larvae supposed to need a corpse to be cteated? If so then the nidus needs to be in contact with the ennemy befor...

I think it's thw woods. Did not know this offered any cover. I think you can close this.

This unit does not seem combat effective, even against AI. The range should be incremented, or it should be given an additional action per turn.

I will try to kerp notes or something. It seems an intermittent problem. Would terrain have an impact?

Ranges needs a minor boost to make the minder lords
effective in the field.

In both MP and skirmish games, I have noticed instances where an insectoid unit attacks an opponent and deals not damage at all. The circumstances did not suggest shielding, armour, or buffs are at play. This was noted with both energy and physical attack units. In one case, a mantis. In the other, ...

Working with pyrotics in a skirmish game vs AI. Noticed that they cannot eat corpses to heal up. Please check.

Good point midonik. I did not consider armour effects.

Cost 3 unit with potential damage of 40 pts per turn? Plus, each atrack will benefit ftom the energy upgrades. This is much more than even the heaviest tanks. Reptilians' infantry is already very strong. I suggest this be nerfed by reducing actions from 5 to 3.

In a skirmish game on planet d msp with random tc distribution. All defenses are down but my ground units cannot occupy the tc. It seems empty.

I love the idea of giant snails, but the use case can already be fulfilled using the big red lobsters, or the bug swarms. I will think on this.

I suspect the programming for this lies near the core of the overall engine. Somewhat tangentially, it would be nice to have a function to take MP games that have devolved to 1 player vs AI off the MP server and convert to a skirmish game. It would declutter the server as well as a player's MP game ...