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Original @Saktoth idea for "spider artillery which is not OP when climbing onto hills where bots can't reach it" was a drone launcher.
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Original @Saktoth idea for "spider artillery which is not OP when climbing onto hills where bots can't reach it" was a drone launcher.
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As a mainline drone unit, it required usability additions to the current drone system:
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As a mainline drone unit, it required usability additions to the current drone system:
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1) being able to retrieve the drone, e.g. when in holdfire mode and no attack order on unit.
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1) being able to retrieve the drone, e.g. when in holdfire mode and no attack order on unit.
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2) being able to attack individual targets on choice rather than have drone run amok and around randomly
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2) being able to attack individual targets on choice rather than have drone run amok and around randomly
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Drones being killable by return fire would then sufficiently nerf the unit's ability to rain unstoppable death onto terrain-challenged enemies.
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Drones being killable by return fire would then sufficiently nerf the unit's ability to rain unstoppable death onto terrain-challenged enemies.
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Presumably, some new type of drone would have to be made, which would be less capable of just being all-purpose terror generalist plague. Meanwhile, having a drone with leash range greater than Crabe range would allow the drone carrier spider to more or less combat Crabes (especially given that being slow and largely static, crabes are a good target for artillery).
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Presumably, some new type of drone would have to be made, which would be less capable of just being all-purpose terror generalist plague. Meanwhile, having a drone with leash range greater than Crabe range would allow the drone carrier spider to more or less combat Crabes (especially given that being slow and largely static, crabes are a good target for artillery).
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I liked the concept, so i made a sketch. The spider's belly would raise and open up to unleash the drone, or when building it if destroyed or when unit is otherwise "deployed".
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I liked the concept, so i made a sketch. The spider's belly would raise and open up to unleash the drone, or when building it if destroyed or when unit is otherwise "deployed".
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[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19320633/dronespider.png[/img]
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[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19320633/dronespider.png[/img]
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(p.s. yes i do love making/proposing units with elaborate mechanical folding)
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Recluse & Crabbe.