* SCARABS ARE TOO CHEAP AND TOO POWERFUL.
Complete garbage. It can destroy anything!!!! It’s only 30 and it doesn’t matter if you move from it or what unit it’s in front of. Its *.
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@Marine_CorporaI wrote:Saying that they are too powerful for such a low cost isn't arguing. GDI has no such equivalent that can take out harvesters with 2 shots from a single unit that can also take out tank, infantry, and air units.
And for the record I'm at Masters with minimal money except for the occasional 1.99 gem package that gets you more coins. I've never bought a crate ever. I've been on this game since the beginning.
My slots are missile troopers for attacking harvesters, shockwave troopers for taking out zone troopers and cyborgs , drones for taking out non missle or laser infantry and to quickly get to a pad, wolverines for air units and swarms of infantry, zone troopers for taking out Titans, and Titans for taking out all the heavies. Each of those units are a counter to another unit.
I can't see where I could put a $10 unit. My drone swarms were $10 but EA made them 20.
This is easy, lose the Drone Swarms. Replace with the Rifle dudes. You save 10 per build as well as the 40 for building the actual building.
Love my drones. They are irreplaceable. I've stolen countless games with their speed getting on to pads. I also shred shockwave, chem, regular infantry, snipers, flame, and machine gun crews with them.
Dogs and any other unit that doesn't have rockets can't kick them off the pad.
I am a scarab user myself and find them to be very useful. Im also a drone user like the op. And i find it quite easy to counter scarabs with drones. Whenever i see scarabs i feel my chances of winning have gone up. Basically all u need to do is send in 2 drone squads at the same time. Ull lose 1 drone squad worth 20 while he loses 30 AND the pad. As nod i use 2 venoms to take them out and it still works wonders. I just had a game where my opponent scarab rushed and killed my harvestor and totally caught me off guard and had scarabs sitting on all 3 pads and still ended up losing. This is why u never see top players using scarabs.
@Marine_CorporaI wrote:Love my drones. They are irreplaceable. I've stolen countless games with their speed getting on to pads. I also shred shockwave, chem, regular infantry, snipers, flame, and machine gun crews with them.
Dogs and any other unit that doesn't have rockets can't kick them off the pad.
Seriously? I don’t think I have EVER lost to someone that used drones before. Like never. But then again, my GDI deck has Pitbulls and APC’s (and also Wolverine and Sandstorm, but I rarely build Tech when I’m GDI) and my NOD deck has Laser Troopers, Banshee and Widowmakers. So drones are pretty useless against me.
And im not saying that like I’m super good and no one can beat me. Not saying that at all. In fact, I feel I’m very middle of the road. But drones get owned. They truly just suck. In my opinion that is.
I'm not god either but I hit masters using them.
But for like.... 10 tib more you can use the Talon - better anti infantry. Is equally deadly at 1 hp has full (unlike drones). Can actually take down other air - though you have to 2 on banshees and certainly the anti-air-air (lol).
Drones are, maybe, a little better verse Pitbulls and the like - they take 4 shots no matter what, it's just not that worth it.
Talon also got a little buff recently.
I run agro on GDI with just the Talon for air - ifn'n and when'n I need it. It ain't no banshee... but for 30 tib it does the job.
Plus I have a collection of screen shots of holding pads with Talons verse Avatars - it's just hilarious.
@PremierVenoth wrote:Plus I have a collection of screen shots of holding pads with Talons verse Avatars - it's just hilarious.
Oh please do show them :-)
