dsy wrote:Abus compare to skirmisher
130hp->' 108% hp
40 attack 266% damage
Trainable colo, but need a.foundry
Unit effectivity (266+108)/2 = 187% --->'>'>' 87% stronger than skirm
Unit effectivity with ranged resist (266+103)/2 --->'>'>' 84,5%
Price: 30% more expensive than skirm
Price/value: 54,5% stronger than skirm
Decide you its op or not.
not sure about the math here, but it seems you are not counting the fact that 1 abus is 2 pop and take a long time to train. They have high damage, but when you kite, they also have massive overkill. for exemple, 10 skirs will basically do as good vs 20 pikes as 10 abus will do when you are kiting.
abus are strong at range, but whenever anything comes close, they become really awkward because of their minimum fire range is bigger than that of skirms, so they go into melee quicker.
if you include all of that with the fact that otto eco peaks very early and then doesnt really have any way to increase gatherrate quickly, you kinda have to work with what you get early, which is about 25 abus, if you lose them, you will never really be able to replenish that count anytime soon, and its usually game over.
so yes, abus are strong, but skirms do quite well vs them, abus become less of a factor when skirms and goons come into play.