With all of the balance changes, has anything been mentioned about the Rockworm? These things are almost unstoppable.
As soon as one enters the field, you've pretty much lost. Earlier today one Rockworm was able to take out my entire army, including Sandstorms and Rhinos.
It was even able to go after my harvester's!
If there's a counter to these, please let me know!
I haven't gotten zone troopers or orcas yet so they are an auto loss. Not having access to necessary units is a real drag.
Definitely feeling this when I play GDI, I almost dread fighting Nod now as it seems a lot of the lower tiered players have the Rockworm. The problem currently is that as GDI your only options to counter it are GDI Missile Soldiers, GDI Jumpjet Troopers, GDI Zone Troopers, Commander General Soloman's Ion Cannon (150 cost to kill a unit of 120 cost), GDI Orcas (these are a problem in it of themselves but more on that later) and GDI Kodiak. However what I don't like is that while anti vehicle infantry are supposed to counter it, when it emerges it all but kills the squad that is supposed to deal with it, this leaves the GDI Orca and Kodiak as the only hard counters to it.
Another problem I see is that it is invulnerable while traveling which takes out a lot of counterplay to the unit itself as it cannot be intercepted, it is all too easy as Nod players with the Rockworm to just create the unit and send it over to the GDI Harvester line and wreck their economy while boosting yours as it two shots the harvesters from one attack and the surfacing damage it does.
Solutions I could think of the moment are since it is roughly the equivalent of the GDI Titan increase its cost to 130 Tiberium, give it a greater interval between the time it takes for it to burrow, remove its AOE emergence damage or decrease its movement speed to slowest as it is tunneling under the ground this would be very slow logically. A combination of these ideas would go a long way to making the unit less frustrating to fight as a GDI that currently has no access to anti vehicle air in the form of the Orca or Kodiak.
All good options for the Rockworm, though I think hitting it's move speed and give it a borrow time for counterplay and see how that affects it, it's damage isn't the issue for me but the next step would be removing it's emergence AoE damage (Or reducing it). On another note for counters against it, The Ion Cannon is pretty useless against it since it can borrow instantly, any player player with half decent reaction time will borrow it long before the Ion Cannon goes off.
Still as of right now, since I don't haven't drawn the Orca unit yet, dealing with Rockworms is a serious hassle for me since it just obliterates anything that is ground.
There's still a major issue with that.
1.) I can't get that high in Nod medals because everyone at my tier is running the rockworm and killing everything. :P
2.) The counters to the rockworm are still too easy to take out. If I run an air unit to counter the rockworm, any anti-air unit crushes the air unit. Normally, this isn't a problem because you could, in theory, run something to target the anti-air units. But the rockworm will just kill your counter unit in one hit, leaving it relatively unscathed.
@Tarma2 I do agree that Nod Rockworm is a little on the strong side when the appropriate counter units are not available to combat them, this is a big issue around 400-1000 Nod or GDI. GDI in particular struggles with the Rockworm until they have the Orca or Kodiak with Missile Squads/Jumpjet Trooper. and Zone Troopers being a soft counter to them. But I am surprised to hear you have difficulty with them as Nod being that the Nod Cyborg is one of the more potent counters to the Rockworm as their EMP particle beams not only slow down the Rockworm if not before it retreats but also decreases its attack speed further reducing its combat effectiveness. Pair them with some anti infantry support such as Militants, Flame Troopers or Confessor Canals and you have a very tough pair that can almost handle anything thrown at it as Cyborgs counter any vehicle and aircraft threats, while your anti infantry squad handles your enemy infantry squads.
If by chance you cannot tech up the Nod Laser Soldiers in groups of two do a decent job of taking down a Rockworm just make sure if the Rockworm is coming to the missile control pad, if you can spare the time move them away one tile from the exit point of the Rockworm to avoid the Rockworm emergenance AOE damage to your anti vehicle troops.
If they are becoming an almost every game occurrence for your matches I would definitely consider training and when possible leveling up your Laser Soldiers or Cyborgs so you have more of an edge in terms of Health and Damage against the Rockworm.
