While the previous update to the lance turrets helped, lances still kill likhos frequently. I think it was about 17:53 - maybe plus or minus a minute. Phantoms also have the same effect. I think it bugs me because it feels like a bug rather than a feature - I know it's not a bug, but it just feels a bit silly. I guess I could distract with a fighter first or something.

I wonder if making phantom/lance vertical aiming even slower might be a good fix. Maybe getting the likhos to fly higher as well? (or something similar)

Generally I've found likhos a lot harder to use since the update due to increased air defence, which I don't think people have responded to with more tac nukes.

Thanks for having a look at that Galamesh, it's appreciated.

A few thoughts.

- That's a reasonable point about the metal and burst damage. I don't have a problem with other units like felons taking likhos out. For me, however, lances and phantoms feels like a different type of unit. It's an extremely powerful, but theoretically cumbersome unit - it shouldn't survive 3000 metal worth of damage from a unit designed to target it.
- Lances already are extremely powerful (if not overpowered) against land units. There is currently very little to counter well used lances, other than building walls and cloaking. (Merlins do okay I guess, but are very pricey)
- In most lob pot battles, units are frequently at least radar jammed if not cloaked and generally speaking, lances should be behind a solid screen of units. This means that whenever you are targeting them with air and the lances are fairly well used, it's dangerous.

- It is possible to come at the lances side on so they can't target the likho as quickly, but this I think is generally more possible early and not so much later.

Generally speaking, it just feels a little silly that it is lances (and phantoms) that are making air unusable in certain situations. If it's more of a feature than an unintended side effect I can deal with that, but it feels more like an unintended side effect.


I feel like I've had them take out likhos closer to the front line, but I'll try and post up some other examples of where this happens and see if I can find a case of them taking out units closer to the front rather than this situation where it was flying over.