Current Balance Change Recommendations

Cloaky: Very small buff, to less used unit of factory to encourage their use.
Buff tick speed by 0.1.

Shield: Generally well tuned.

Tank: Minor power rebalance to encourage more unit diversity.
Kodachi: Range 225->220
Blitz: Turn rate 102>124 (Now same as Kodachi).

LV: Generally balanced, but with a bit precarious a position especially in stall-offs. Buffing Impaler because it unable to do its job well enough to justify cost.
Impaler: 700m Cost> 600m

Spider: Generally fine. Venom is a bit overly wacky in terms of its scaling effects, especially with how it interacts with flea. Flea is a bit powerful, but not terrifyingly.
Venom: Area of Effect 80 > 72 Speed 81>90
Flea: Damage 10.6 > 9.6

JJ: Unstable due to no anti-scout.
Been discussed more extensively elsewhere. Easiest solution is to give moderator damage somehow. Puppies also could be used to do this, making them consume half-health every shot (rather than death on hit and around 20% on miss), and have a high reload time (couple seconds). This would lead to them functioning as weak anti-scouts, without substantially buffing them vs raiders.

Amph: Duck isn't quite good enough, but is very extreme where it does win fac cannot deal with terraform at all.
Duck gets increased range 240>260. Shots have a 1 second delay between them. Possibly should start with a higher arc, making them less prone to FF.
Lobster Move Speed 54 > 84 (Same as duck now). In theory makes it fast enough to retreat from slow units, and go on raids rather than just assaults.

nerf flea

Ducks don't need buffs. Nobody uses them because archers are much better.

Shield boots are generally well tuned to suck.

Ducks do have serious friendly fire problems.

I wouldnt say shield bots suck they just arent part of the broken unit meta

Bandits are sufficient against scorchers and darts until very high numbers, at which point outlaw can be used.
Smaller groups can be taken out be a roach.

Shield relies on decent generalist raiders to fill its riot role, until the game scales to larger numbers.

yeah, good snitchin' can turn a game fast it's really powerful for its cost; but porc snipes them so hard.
I threw 20 sandbags at a porcline to try to sneak a snitch behind and NOPE the AI definitely prioritized the snitch instantly as it was in range. That lotus had eyes in the back of its head man.

I contend duck is more powerful than people appreciate, and Flea is less powerful than is often complained.

Duck needs to be normalized to one-shot other raiders less instantly and allow a bit more nuance. Then it can get more power, when its extreme cased is reigned in. If that power can come from arcing missiles over ducks, it will both make them worse at hitting point blank units, and decrease friendly fire. I tried to normalize it in a way that retains as much of its initial flavor as I could.

Flea needed a bit more range to decrease wonkyness (from death explosions / venom AoE). It still mostly kills on a very fine margin. 10% less damage will add up in a way 10% less health would not.

Venom change isnt ideal, but helps reign in its design problems a bit. Its AoE is so large it has trouble working with other units, especially fleas. Even a small change can help this a lot (fleas would be fine, but they have so little HP they get stunned trivially at the edge). This change would likely help hold over venom until other versions work out. Sadly I also view the unit as a bit weak, and the AoE damages its ability on its own. Adding a bit more speed helps keep it different from other spiders, but shouldnt change its matchups too much.

As long as we agree upon direction, I do not think it unreasonable to gradually move the flea's DPS downwards, until we agree its at a correct level.

I contend the unit is more sensitive to changes than it is often given credit for. Its strongly affected by thresholds.

Damage specifically is often about hit number. DPS though has more broad implications.

Because of low unit weight, lower DPS can also mean a massive difference in attrition. 50% dps is easily the difference between making cost and doing nothing. Additionally, for a very small unit like a flea, it can mean some real crucial time for another unit to arrive and deal with it.