Reclaim in hard-to-reach places

[Kilatamoro]

I noticed that only 1 faction has flying engies, and, hence, they are the only faction capable of easily reclaiming from hard-to-reach places like mountains.

Maybe consider adding flying reclaimers to all factions at some point?

[IndexLibrorum]

Let's not remove another aspect of faction diversity, but rather just build a transport.

[CaptainKlutz]

If there's a significant amount of anything only reachable by one faction on a map, that's the map designer's fault, not the game balance's

[Kilatamoro]

@indexlibrorum said in Reclaim in hard-to-reach places:

Let's not remove another aspect of faction diversity, but rather just build a transport.

Transports do not allow you to drop units on uneven terrain.

[Kilatamoro]

@captainklutz said in Reclaim in hard-to-reach places:

If there's a significant amount of anything only reachable by one faction on a map, that's the map designer's fault, not the game balance's

Aircraft can fall on mountains.

[IndexLibrorum]

@kilatamoro As Klux mentioned, that's an issue with map design, not an issue with a faction. Factions having different pros and cons on certain maps is an effect of faction diversity, which is a good thing.

[Kilatamoro]

OK, here is an example of a bad map called Seton's Clutch where you can't reclaim an ahwassa on a mountain: , where with red marked the spot where your transport drops units if you try dropping them close to the fallen ahwassa.

[Kilatamoro]

Here is my idea of how to fix this while keeping faction diversity: Cybran: jester gets a small reclaiming tool; Aeon: czar gets a giant reclaiming tool; Seraphim: transports get medium reclaiming tool.

Or just give reclaiming tools to gunships or transports.

[angelofd347h]

Gotta get creative with the factory attack move

[Nomander]

You can also interrupt pathfinding with engis on attack move (or SACU/ACU on patrol iirc) and they will lock on to and reclaim a single target using fac attack move range, which can be useful for this scenario.