Re: Suggestion/Discussion: make ewar LOS and AoE
that's very non-committal answer
personally, im thinking that the ewar biased fleet has the advantage in most cases due to three points:
1. ewar mechs can take a single opposing bot of any strength out of the fight in most scenarios. When vagas and zeniths are combined and communication works (hardest part about this, lol), this number can go up.
2. Ewar has both a speed, range and masking advantage over similar bots, and especially masked ewar not being retaliated against by a majority of the opposing fleet is pretty damn strong.
3. Augmenting the ewars with ictuses means that hostile bots can be rendered permanently useless/shields can be overcome.
In general, the move away from follows made ewars stronger, i think, as follows used to mitigate some of these issues. Just out of curiosity, how would you say the general equation changes when we're moving from heavies to either mechs + ewar mechs or mechs + light ewar?
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Just for the record, i haven't really formed an opinion regarding the balance of ewar yet.