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July 1st, 2006, 06:20 PM
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Re: Starvation victims abroad need help NOW!
Anything is a better choice than shades. Anything is a better choice than anything if you use them by themselves. But a simulation of shades mixed in slightly with other units does pretty well. Unless of course you have higher level units available with amphib, or stealth, or ethereal, or strngth sap.
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July 1st, 2006, 10:21 PM
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Re: Starvation victims abroad need help NOW!
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Gandalf Parker said:
Anything is a better choice than shades. Anything is a better choice than anything if you use them by themselves. But a simulation of shades mixed in slightly with other units does pretty well. Unless of course you have higher level units available with amphib, or stealth, or ethereal, or strngth sap.
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Yes, and mixing any not very good unit with other stuff dilutes their suckiness, that doesn't really show anything. 
The abilities you list are either 'extras' (i.e ethereal doesn't isn't really a niche in itself, it's just nice to have, and on a weak and expensive unit it is just not nice enough alone), available easier and better other ways (amphibian and stealth) or just plain negligible (steal strength). |
July 1st, 2006, 10:40 PM
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Re: Starvation victims abroad need help NOW!
If you say so, I dont see it except in later units
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July 1st, 2006, 11:04 PM
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Re: Starvation victims abroad need help NOW!
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If you say so, I dont see it except in later units
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Well, I don't know what to say then. I've clearly pointed out better same-or-lower-level alternatives to all their niches (apart from steal strength, and it only takes a few combat tests to see how ineffective that is vs. almost anything).
I should also point out that the CB mod more than halved their price and they were still almost never used. |
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