
Originally Posted by
Pyros
Meh, with the nerfs they're ok. They're mostly team games units though. Like if you get one in a 1vs1, you already won the game before you were making it. But sometimes making it will lose you the game. Saw some Ig guy who was dominating an Ork player, like he was at 450+ to 100 on VPs or something, starts building a baneblade, but due to the long long building time, Ork goes tier3 and build a squad of Nobz, upgrades them to full and proceed to rape the living shit out of the Baneblade with Knob invis on Nobz to get in melee range and beat on it until it's forced to retreat. The BB did one shot a looted tank before dying(full health, from the front), but it's absolutely terrible again melees, especially heavy and super heavy infantry like Nid Warriors, Nobs, Orgryns and even T1 units like Banshees or ASM. Hell without support, an Autarch can 1vs1 a Baneblade without taking any damage, and kill it reasonably fast too.
Land Raider though, really good, if you're not retarded and run it into shit. You leave it a bit behind the middle of the map(usually where the VP is), and just leave it there and fight with your normal units, but the thing is you can retreat to it, heal up like if you were at base, and go back into the fight, so once it's there, you really need to win the fight hard to push the SM back out of the middle.
Swarmlord is a beast in melee, but suffers the same issues as Avatar, it can be kited(especially if they have slowing effects on large targets like Lascanon platform or Rocket launchers TSM). That said, since it can also heal up a bit, it's far more durable, and its aura is pretty fucking insane when you have good units around. Can also reinforce around so it's tough beating a Nid blob with a Swarmlord in the middle of it. I'd say he's mostly balanced though, because of the melee aspect, but in 1vs1 he will seal the victory for nids if they get there, and they can usually do.
The thing though is all these drop REALLY fast to focus fire, so you need to support them well. If you play a teamgame and rush a Baneblade or whatever, you need to make sure you don't fight without the other players(who should have more units than you since they didn't rush T3, hopefully), because you can literally lose it while doing 0dmg. And it's the highest damaging unit in the game. It's just that AV will melt it because its dmg is mostly burst(its big canon shots that have long cooldowns) so once he used its shit, it hits like a shitty predator, and moves twice as slow. Two Wraithguards or 3 of these Orks ranged AV that they usually never make(because Nobz are better overall) will melt a super tank in under 30secs if they're not taken care of. That's like half the time it takes to build it ^^.