Baww. I'm sad tucker because I cant abuse an OP strategy.

;D

Well hell guys, if we're gonna attack this strategy head on, why not reduce the recon's vision for people who like to control the map, and the AA's air damage for air-heavy strategies?

There's gotta be a line between what's OP and what they're made to do. Cheap units that last 5 turns, starting in your base, are worthless without a strategy to utilize that.

they are a great method of quickie defense. someone slips in, you whip them out to buy time to pull back or get the money to make "real" units.

or, use them to quickly gain control of resource or control points while amassing the money to replace them with "real" units.

To do that, you'd need at least 3 or 4 of them to have a chance, and no one's gonna spend a third of their deck for a "just in case I need a backup defense"

If they were weaker units, I wouldn't be for nerfing the strat, but as is it's like playing a game of starcraft and someone slipping into the back of your base within the first 4 minutes of the game with max tech carriers. If it's a threat people have to worry about, the game will end up turning into a turtle match and no one would ever venture out of their base.

In all honesty, I'd be perfectly OK with eliminating mercenaries entirely.

Seems like the past couple days, everyone wants to eliminate something from the game rather than balancing it. I hate this method of thinking as it washes out gameplay. One example was last night when someone wanted to limit camo duration and now with the removal of merc cards. Either of those things happening would turn this into a game I would not enjoy and prolly not play as much.

As for camo, I offered my advice on balancing it. It might take some work, but in the long run it's way worth it to add an element to the game than to nerf it into oblivion and make it not at all interesting anymore.

They already made adjustments for the mercenaries and my strategy. The base now has +50 hp, airlift 3 costs more, and merc heavy tank costs more

I've since then replicated your strategy and improved upon it winning a match in mearly 8 turns

The funny part is I had no idea you had already done this the night before.