Thunderbird needs an hp buff

Agree, but also believe it's effect to be situationally OP. Today I was reminded of why I dislike TB - it disabled 7-8 of my maces in a single payload (and return visits cost me the game).

Unusual unit who's success grows the stronger the clump of enemies it's able to hit. I wonder if it would be somehow possible to have it's effect dampened a little the more units it hits to impose some semblance of balance upon it.

AoE was nerfed before, now you need to be really precise with attack as it does not turn well during attack. And yes, it is made of paper.

a single thunderbird has lost me whole armies.. and that has lost me whole flanks.. and that has killed whole teams * '7 other people'

this unit can be so op that i consider all the lost thunderbirds to be part of its true cost

.. however.. it fails so much it feels meh until it pulls of some woah

Everything is bad for unexperinced players. (except Recluse spam, cuz OP)

Gold rule is "GIT GUD".

balance should go to planes factory for a warm family visit, but I dont think planes will have the energy to welcome balance, either way Vamp (raptor or whatever) is too old for this, barely anyone cares about him, when he was young his name was *superiority fighter*,but where is the superiority, time is swift and merciless, even raptor cant go against it.

Planes factory got a health deterioration, their health is not good nowadays, and the medical expenses are high, especially phoenix,it costs 360. Its quite hard for them to be *energetic*, in the meantime they are taxed for doing their job, some planes got so poor that they cannot even rearm themselves, licho and thunderbird are even afraid to use their load, lest they need to rearm.

Some planes are even scaring their young that if they teamkill, they will get sent to gulag ehm, I mean to the airpad.

I think it's alright. When someone isn't paying attention you can sneak strike their ball, making it sorta a ninja thing. But if they are paying attention, they could spread out their units in time to avoid it.

I guess sneeki thingies don't need that much hp since if they take enough damage to die you're usually not using it right or the opponent is very attentive- that or they have a lot of aa.

You have to ask how thunderbird arrived at the low-low cost for what you get that it did in the first place. It's an AoE racketeer.

TB should be general counter against big shield ball but felon eat TB too quickly so its mostly useless vs larger shield ball except it disarm felon faster then it kill it. Surviving is largest problem for tb against shield ball. And if you play more defensive game this 550 metal loss doesn't make any cost and even if enemy can follow up with units disarm time is less to make decisive cost made in most situations. If enemy have some aa then tb become almost useless. Disarming mech ball for attack also is mostly useless because they can now faster get out of problem especially if this enemy is bots. TB in my gameplay mostly played as defense. And useful only against small porc cluster where are no faraday.
TB is bad - needs hp or reduction cost but phoenix is even more bad. Followup TB + phoenix vs ball doesn't mostly work. Both needs to be buffed.
Raven reload time is also problem in some games. Especially on smaller maps. But seems it's not critical yet.

we can have flying dirtbags to drain shiledball?

vamp needs burst to compete with swift because flying slow over ground aa to attack bombers is harsh.. if they could burst then run.. but they cant so they really need more damage so they dont get stuck for ages