@god-emperor said in The Problems With The UEF - Part 4 (The Ambassador & Blackbird):
Tell you what, ill give you jamming on your UEF t3 strat if my AEON t3 strat gets shielding
That's a cool idea, but overall, Aeon has great air.
They have the T2 Swifty, T3 AA gunship, The Czar, too.
Shielding the Strat as is would just offer more strength to a faction that doesn't need more strength in air. UEF on the other had is quite the conundrum.
If anything, shielding a strat would likely hurt the unit overall, as if it has more HP than the standard Strat HP - then it would make the unit way too tanky. So, to keep it balanced, if it has just as much HP as it currently does, that means sacrificing unit HP for shield HP and that means an energy cost as well as a chance to lose that HP when you power stall.
It worked for the Czar, back when it had 60K HP and no shield, vs now that it has 40K HP and 20K shield, but it only worked as the unit had such a large HP pool. With a strat that has only about 10% of the HP pool, that is so much more difficult to work with.
But, again, decent idea. I'm sure it could be balanced in somehow. Just gotta find something for Seraphim.
~ Stryker