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Unread 20 May 2015, 07:26   #59
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Re: Blue's Stat Set Rnd 62

I realise that terran is a defensive race. But in practice people look at the initiatives when deciding the utility of a fleet. And unfortunately for stats makers initiative is as relevant for defence as for the attack. Terran can get away without having the initiative over everything if it can sensibly build themselves into little fr/de forts and become unattackable. But as one of the principles of this set is that fr and de dont fire on each other Terran can no more easily do this than other races. Their emp res and armour is useful but hardly sufficient compensation. Even this seems to fall down a bit when it comes to fi; why would anyone want ter fi to do damage soaking not etd fi, armour of 500 against 484 is not very worthwhile when the etd is so much more useful otherwise. And lets be honest most players dont want to soak up damage on the offensive due to the score loss that means you are taking.
You have reduced them to the role of def planet and fast amp scanner - and perhaps as you say kamikaze. Which is not great for balance.
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