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Empire at War and Forces of Corruption / Re: Zann Consortium-Overpowered?
« on: January 22, 2012, 03:02:02 AM »
There's one crucial fact that you are all overlooking. Coming from someone who has played each faction extensively, the Consortium actually comes out much weaker than the other two factions in the endgame. If the empire or rebellion player is at all clever they just need to remove corruption and outproduce the consortium. Its a tactic that works almost every time.
Their units are all based on offense. They have horrible defensive qualities that can be easily exploited by a skilled player. Their Aggressors are useless once the main cannon is destroyed, the same goes for the vengeance. The ships are glass cannons, massive damage output with extremely fragile hulls. Meanwhile their fighters and bombers get outclassed by late game imperial and rebellion ships. While early in the game the Consortium is very powerful, later on they scale very poorly, and easily lose a war of attrition with any of the major powers. As for the consortium's hereos, while they're powerful, they have nothing on the rebellion's heroes, or even some of the empires heroes. Silri is good but loses to any of the jedi or sith, and Tyber Zann's bribe is no less over powered than the emporers corrupt ability which does the same thing.
Their units are all based on offense. They have horrible defensive qualities that can be easily exploited by a skilled player. Their Aggressors are useless once the main cannon is destroyed, the same goes for the vengeance. The ships are glass cannons, massive damage output with extremely fragile hulls. Meanwhile their fighters and bombers get outclassed by late game imperial and rebellion ships. While early in the game the Consortium is very powerful, later on they scale very poorly, and easily lose a war of attrition with any of the major powers. As for the consortium's hereos, while they're powerful, they have nothing on the rebellion's heroes, or even some of the empires heroes. Silri is good but loses to any of the jedi or sith, and Tyber Zann's bribe is no less over powered than the emporers corrupt ability which does the same thing.
Yea but that my point you can still take it out even if you are the rebels. which suck by the way. The Empire and consortium are more or less toe to toe. The rebels are the weakest. Although I still can take them out but it takes a hell of a lot longer playing as the rebelsThis, i have to disagree with entirely. They aren't weak, they require tactics to use. If the rebels are used correctly they are the most powerful faction in the game, between their heroes and ability to produce large amounts of extremely powerful fighters and bombers, they can outmaneuver and defeat any other fleet. I've seen it done, they just take skill.