quote: improved Firepluk

High praise!

I think value killed vs value lost graph normally shows the true picture better. Doing a lot of damage but losing everything in the process is much worse than doing slightly less damage but having very minimal loses, impalers usually spend a lot of the time hitting shields and armoured statics (although anti-bait maybe helps this problem) and tend to become pretty useless when the defences are dead. I think the 10k worth of impalers would have been better spent on say 2x Merlin, or a paladin to help push.

quote: I think value killed vs value lost graph normally shows the true picture better. Doing a lot of damage but losing everything in the process is much worse than doing slightly less damage but having very minimal loses

Impalers tend to embody the principle of contact-free warfare, never taking any risk and just shooting from a huge range away, so this metric would skew even higher towards their utility.

That said, the highest value killed / value lost in this game goes to the trollcom, so i'm not sure what to say. Perhaps this: the run-and-gun commander takes a huge risk every time it decloaks to do anything - unlike Impalers.

quote: tend to become pretty useless when the defences are dead

IME when they can no longer shoot at your military statics because they are dead, they tend to start going countervalue - at your economy.

quote: 10k worth of impalers would have been better spent on say 2x Merlin, or a paladin to help push.

There was a merlin. I remember it because i dgunned it.