Sumo

Here's an old plan that i've been quoting in every jump thread since:
1) Generate a proper jumpy riot.
2) Abolish Pyro riot capacity, leaving it as raider only (possibly with AH overtone).
3) Make puppies non-suicidal melee unit to work better on naked eco.
4) Abolish jack (replacing it with the riot).
5) Halve Sumo weight and give it a properly inaccurate assaulty weapon (plasma, slow laser, whatever).

There you go. Raiders raid, riots riot, assaults assault. Skirmisher is still missing.

Well there's no point having two assaults in one factory, really.

Or is there? I don't think an assault sumo (with no ability to murder E V E R Y O N E) could compete with Jack.

give sumo the ability to roll down hills, problem solved

what we need is a flying sumo lab and a sumo that sings heavy metal

i post this in evry sumo balance thread, but noone does it

quote: what we need is a flying sumo lab and a sumo that sings heavy metal i post this in evry sumo balance thread, but noone does it

I remember watching that video when I was still new and being really disappointed when I discovered that the jumpy fac couldn't actually fly.

It does seem prety unreasonable that none of the factories can move

I'd focus on it being pure frontal assault against heavy porc. Not "assault-riot" or whatever. A very specific purpose: The enemy has heavy hyper-dense porc that needs to die. The Sumo may or may not survive the encounter, but the Doomsday almost certainly won't. A punishment for the hubris of thinking that heavy defenses will protect your base.

Now, the undesired stats: stomp reconfigured as a single-target attack with a long range, extremely-long recharge, and a huge hang-time so it's useless except against large buildings or stupidly immobile targets. Like assault/artillery, except the Sumo is the projectile, which lets it go through shields unlike conventional artillery. I guess I just contradicted my "pure assault" by saying "assault artillery" but you know what I mean.

As for the guns? I don't care, something assault-y. Maybe slow Buoy disruptor balls or some kind of light d-gun or something.

This would be pleasantly different from the Jack that does best against low-grade porc and riots and tearing down the enemy eco/comm/whatnot.

replace its weapons with grav guns, ololo

[GBC]1v0ry_k1ng

Return of the Jugglenaut?

Kyubey

Are you sure you'd want a unit that can only attack with manual "jump" orders?