AA options for com moduals?

"While this would make coms have alot less to fear from air, it would in turn would make them much more vunrible to ground attacks."

They already are very vulnerable to ground attacks. :)

So com's would end up being mini Detriments? is that realy a bad thing >_>

Hmm if you are going to make a dedicated sea com then i think ressing underwater should be removed unless there would be a normal unit that could do that.

Level 1 AA is a massive amount of pregame RPS. If they start air then AA comm is good, otherwise you shouldn't have picked a weapon at all.

I think the torpcom fixes what I believe to be an unbalanced sea.

Ok, so this is a rock-paper-scissors RTS. On land, no matter what, in early game, the enemy will make something that you don't have the correct units for. This is where your com helps because he can usually kill whatever early units are sent (including light air attacks). So even noobs, who guessed wrong and picked rock when the enemy picked paper, are able to survive because the com equalizes the difference.

Sea fucks over new players for a variety of reasons:
1)Everything is EXPENSIVE. You usually only have enough metal to build 2 units before conflict starts. If you build riots and the enemy rushed a sub, you lose. If you went subs and the enemy built a torp frigate, you lose. If you did everything right vs sea enemy and someone sends air, you lose (why is there no cheap AA unit?!?). I hate playing sea because I know against good players, even if I play well, I may just pick the wrong unit type and lose in the first 5 minutes.

One way to fix this would be to make sea units cheaper so that if you make the wrong initial choices, you can counter with the correct units more quickly. I know that everyone is pretty happy with sea balance in terms of cost though, so that will not happen.

Torpcom sort of balances this out. He allows you to compush like a landcom while also supplementing your forces in case you get caught without sub protection. He wouldn't make subs useless, but he would sort of blur the hard edge of the R-P-S system. Ideally, he would be able to take out 1 sub on his own, but 2 subs could kill him.

An upgrade to existing weapons that makes them better-target air would be good enough. Like a velocity/range buff module for the HMG that makes it accurate as a Razor's Kiss. Or a homing + velocity buff that turns the rockets into MT-style missiles.

That said, you'd want there to be at least one module that lets the comm have AA capabilities at L1.

But either way, the more I think about it: the Comms need to *float*.

Like the days of com dropping and boosting scorchers in the enemy base. :D

Needless to say there is good reason for only factories getting plopped.

Why they keep nerfing coms so bad i mean they are really expensive most coms lv4 coms cost more than a dante and are weaker than it...

If this nerf spree continues morphed coms will be weaker than a flea....

We need armour-kbot-cons...

Let's make an amphibious Necro which costs 300 metal, has 2800 HPs, crabe-mode to get +50% armour and has only 9 BP.

That would balance many things about coms and porc rushes.

What do you mean by units only? If you mean never morphing coms, I do that. It's a rare game that I use metal to morph my commander.

Otherwise, the level 1 commander is an armed, semi-high hp riot/assault unit with BP and a mobile radar. May as well use it right?