They outrange yuriclones and masterminds, and they can destroy lighter tanks in a few blasts. The prism tanks in groups of 5 or more are still devistating when used correctly and defending by a group of lighter grizzlies. The guardian GI is intentional Tank Rush defense. Anyone who relies on expensive units like the Appoc tank is probably less agressive, which doesn't suit the soviet side. The allies have basically been built up a little to defend against Yuri, but in my opinion are weaker against the Sov's. They're still worthless agaisnt people, who notice they can't control the spy. Spy's are much more useful against the computer, who rarely uses dogs correctly and if they're used you can just kill with a sniper unit, seal, or other assault. I think they're still vulnerable to dogs, spiders, Yuri Clones, etc.
Baddass unit of the year! Anti-air, Anti-missile, anti-tank. Basically, useful only to stop mind-control units like a mastermind. Robotic tanks: they don't crush infantry, they don't have a quick fire rate, they don't do much damage. Few things are going to stop a Tanya, especially since she's self-healing. Tanya is now uncrushable? And she can c4 Vehicles? Frightening. Its highly vulnerable to psychic takeover, it costs 3 times as much as a bunker when fully loaded, but has the same firepower, its too slow to catch anything but an appocolypse, which if left unescorted deserves to be destroyed.Īll in all, a less than effective use of $3000. However, this is what *I* see from just two days playing(so take it for what its worth, not much). (as opposed to a game like SC, where the rush is a whole monster in and of itself)Īnyway, I want to have faith in soviet, so I'd welcome rebuttles to my claims. I'm thinking that in both cases (soviet vs yuri and soviet vs allied) soviet MAY have the advantage w/ a rush, but I'm not a rush player when it comes to RA2, and i'm not sure how effective the rush is in RA2. The improved gi is GOOD anti tank, and if properly deployed around one's base, I think they can get up a good, if not inpenetrable AT defense. They have double money in place which might come up to the industrial plant (I do have to get soviet credit, the industiral plant is the shit) but i dont' think it's enough to balance out the other elements. Allied has good air (harriers, or even better, black eagles) and they've jsut got the ground advantage. With teh addition of teh battle fortress, I believe that An allied assult (prisms/fortess/grizzlies/mirage) can take out a group of Apocolypes (spelling, it's 5am, dont' blame me! View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif). Soviet vs Allied, I believe the game is a bit more even, but Allied still has an advantage. Yuri also has the ufo thingies, which, if he can do it right with a mastermind assult, can disable the entire soviet defense (fly a mastermind over the power, kill the power, take masterminds and take over any unit based AA) I'm just not sure where soviet can get by Yuri's defense/mind control. If Soviet tries to go men, then a Virus can easily take them out.
If soviet goes air, then yuri goes gatling tanks/gatling cannons. All Yuri needs to do is to get some masterminds up, and take all those nice soviet tanks for himself, and either: a) Put them in the grinder for resources, or b) use them against soviet himself. They've gained Boris, and the Siege Helicopter, but I dont' believe that it makes up for what the've lost (in comparison) to Allied.įor example, a soviet player vs Yuri, and I believe that Yuri wins. First and foremost, they've obviously lost the Yuri units, (Yuri Clone and Phychic Sensor). My only conclusion, is that they've basically lost the advantage on a number of fronts. I'd like to know if that has changed as we've moved from RA2-> YR. I know after skimming the Westwood forums that most people (who MP'd) considered soviet to be the dominating player in vanilla RA2. I'd like to start of the discussion with a look at Soviet.
I searched, and there have been a couple of ones, but I haven't seen any in depth ones. I wonder if we can get a good YR thread going here.