[Wandows]

Why o why do Cathaar always have to pay a heavy price after they had 1 okeyish round :/.

The effectiveness of the CO fleet has been pretty much removed. They can't kill anymore, which means anyone is always willing to send defence, both Cath and Xan have free kill ships (Guardian & Lancer) that make them a offlimit target. Next to that Spider now stuns CO before they fire, which means a bunch of those in defence will most likely make Gryphons or Thiefs eat your CO. If you can't get out of gal def, you can always wait on some ingal flak, which will most likely be available since its not a waste anymore for Terrans to build Gryphons. Also Ziks won't mind defending with their FR, as they won't lose them anyway, and you still have a good chance on ingal Lancers and Guardians (buddypack). Its gonna be expensive roiding (except for the start i guess).

As for CR fleets, they pwetty much are screwed with the Ghost having a lower initiative then the Tarantula. It means 'free' kills for the defence, and will make roiding for the CR fleet expensive, if not impossible. The only target left for Cathaar would be other Cathaars or Ziks, because stunning a Ter DE and a Ter BS fleet is simply not an option due to their high armour. Unless you want to hit small Terrans ofcourse. There are always quite some ppl playing Xan, and they will have 'alot' of anti-CR / BS, since they have the initiative advantage there.

Part of Cathaars succes last round was due to the fact they were underestimated at the start of the round (with the crap performance of r13 in mind). Coming round most options for Cathaar will lead to them having to go for costy roids, while at the same time, they are still most desirable targets for free roids. These stats kill Cathaar's attack power, while they wil remain to be a open target for most pod classes. I wish Cathaar would go back to last round stats, they were ok, ppl know what they can do now and will expect it, a slight upgrade to the pk was about the only thing needed, with the removal of the stealing scorp Cat are now a open invite to Fi attacks and will be raped to the ground :/