Profile of Aerohank

Amazing job on the balance Relic. This game is truly the next big thing in Esports.

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Truck pushing
3x Kubel opening
JLI spam

I play 1v1 mostly and I'm playing this game less and less. For me it's mostly the lack of players that are of my skill level in combination with boring meta.

My ELO is fairly high so I often get matched up against top 10 players who will kick my ass in 10 minutes or less. If I leave the game you can't search for a new game because there is a 90% I will get matched against the same guy again for another rape session.

Then there are those times when apparently no good players are on, or they are all in team games or whatnot, and I get to wait 8 minutes for a game only to be placed against a dramatically inferior enemy. There is little fun to be had in those.

When I finally do get an opponent who is of roughly my skill level, I see the same boring strategies over and over again. Hardly any attempts at combined arms, call-in spam galore, always the same OP doctrines, no attempts at using sub-optimal units etc.

The game is pretty amazing when I play against someone of roughly my skill level who actually tries to do something to break the meta. But this only happens once in a blue moon. It's not worth the time investment to play 20 boring games just to get 1 good one.

The amount of micro to place a single flare is rarely worth the effect on the battle that flare has. Instead of placing a flare that might kill one or two soldiers IF a squad happens to walk over it those conscripts could be off capping, building green cover, or fighting elsewhere on the map.

You can place flare trip mines while capping a point just as easily as you can just cap the point. All it takes is pressing 1 extra hotkey. People place mines and demo charges all the time while they cap points, flare trip mines are placed just as easily.

Once you get the hang of frequently placing flare trip mines, you will probably find yourself thinking "I should place some flare trip mines!" even when you are not capping a point.

It's just something that takes some getting used to. Abilities that are fine should not be changed just because players can't be arsed to pour some extra APM in their play. This is not starcraft, you are not constantly maxed out on APM.

If they were awesome, i guess i should had seen them use more often.

Watch my replays, I use them all the time. Or better, try using them yourself. The intel+reasonable chance to kill a model is amazing.

The only reason not to use these mines is when you don't have enough micro to plant mines while managing your army. Making them cheaper and less useful is only going to make less people use it, not more.

I don't really see the point. They are just poor-mans shocktroopers. Both conscript PPSH upgrades and Shocktroopers are better than Assault Guards (or whatever they are called).