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Here's my read on why Faraday is currently in vogue.
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Here's my read on why Faraday is currently in vogue.
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Pros:
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Pros:
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- High alpha and dps
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- High alpha and dps
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- High aoe
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- High aoe
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- Perfect accuracy
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- Perfect accuracy
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- Good range
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- Good range
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- Arty resistant
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- Arty resistant
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Cons:
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Cons:
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- Doesn't kill anything on its own
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- Doesn't kill anything on its own
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- Low stun time
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- Low stun time
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These combine into a tool that is a perfect _fall-back position_ for an army build where your main source of damage is anti-unit artillery and skirms.
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These combine into a tool that is a perfect _fall-back position_ for an army build where your main source of damage is anti-unit artillery and skirms.
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High alpha, range, perfect aim -> defeat bombers, then your army finishes them.
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High alpha, range, perfect aim -> defeat bombers, then your army finishes them.
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High aoe, perfect aim -> defeat raiders, then artyskirms kill them
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High aoe, perfect aim -> defeat raiders, then artyskirms kill them
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Arty resilient -> enemy artyskirm can't just siege them
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Arty resilient -> enemy artyskirm can't just siege them
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Good dps -> works vs assaults as well (and then artyskirms kill them)
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Good dps -> works vs assaults as well (and then artyskirms kill them)
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Low stun time -> This only matters vs assaults, but just build two and you're okay.
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Low stun time -> This only matters vs assaults, but just build two and you're okay.
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If you compare Faraday with Stinger, the differences are that
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If you compare Faraday with Stinger, the differences are that
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+ Stinger actually kills stuff
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+ Stinger actually kills stuff
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+ Stinger has better range
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+ Stinger has better range
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- Stinger is less than perfectly accurate
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- Stinger is less than perfectly accurate
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- Stinger has no AoE
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- Stinger has no AoE
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- Stinger is not arty-resistant
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- Stinger is not arty-resistant
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Under conditions where your main investment is your treasured mob of artyskirms *and* your enemy is mainly artyskirms, Faraday successfully fulfills more roles.
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Under conditions where your main investment is your treasured mob of artyskirms *and* your enemy is mainly artyskirms, Faraday successfully fulfills more roles.
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Faraday-protected bases camped with mobile units are extremely resistant to artilery as long as the dps-source mobiles can avoid being hit directly:
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Faraday-protected bases camped with mobile units are extremely resistant to artilery as long as the dps-source mobiles can avoid being hit directly:
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- Shooting the faraday with arty does nothing
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- Shooting the faraday with arty does nothing
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- Shooting the mobiles causes misses
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- Shooting the mobiles causes misses
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- Assaulting directly gets your force stunned and killed by their mobiles.
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- Assaulting directly gets your force stunned and killed by their mobiles.
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TL:DR [b]IF[/b] you want to make Faraday less cancerous, just remove the armor. If it actually dies to artillery [i]like porc should[/i]*, it stops being the ultimate word in artyporc meta.
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TL:DR [b]IF[/b] you want to make Faraday less cancerous, just remove the armor. If it actually dies to artillery [i]like porc should[/i]*, it stops being the ultimate word in artyporc meta.
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The
alternative
of
turning
it
into
a
single-target
stun
laser
rebrands
it
as
antiheavy
and
gives
it
stunlock.
I'm
not
sure
that
you
really
want
that,
really.
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The
alternative
of
turning
it
into
a
single-target
stun
laser
rebrands
it
as
antiheavy
and
gives
it
stunlock.
I'm
not
sure
that
you
really
want
that.
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Faraday is strong