145 power to t-up place big gaps between teams

[Choongjing]

Did any of you notice how the ridiculously high amount of power needed to tier up place big gaps between team.
I mean, have any of you ever face an enemy which had started building lootas while you and your team mate is still stuck in tier 1?
Or vice versa, where your teams are tier 3 and taking the battle to enemies' base?

I think the problem is because of the early victory. After the patch, early victories lead to another; and early defeat lead to annihilation. When successfully winning an early battle, the winner will have the req to spam generators. And while they keep on winning, they can run their army to enemies' generator farm and keep either destroy the farm, or take it as their own.
When you look at this problem closely, it is actually considerly big. Since more than once i am faced with 2 lootas where i have nothing except sluggas and shootas. Not even one AV or vehicle.

I think to fix this problem, relic will have to make generators more resilient to sluggas and shootas. And in order to capture enemies' generators, one would need to take a long time to capture the farm.

[craft-star]

It is really a map dependent problem. On most maps unless you are outplayed by a great margin it cannot happen.

[Borrish]

The idea is that needing a lot of power makes it viable to build power based units or buy power based upgrades because you have more time to make them pay off. If they're taking your power farm and you're powerless to stop them then you've simply been outplayed.

[Saias]

It costs 125 power to get to tier2.
You need to adapt to the new patch by building more units in tier1, you can't expect to win battles against decent opponents when they simply have more units than you.

[Chris]

The problem with 1.4.2 atm is that some races simply have to spend more power than others in tier 1 to stay competitive. I recently started playing around with Eldar and it seems that spending power on every single unit is effectively mandatory.

[Zeroblizzard]

I agree (but wait until the end of the post). Without the Techmarine's relay beacon, my squads would be out of the fight and I would lose most matches (maybe save for Calderis Refinery). I say go Techmarine.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

The problem with 1.4.2 atm is that some races simply have to spend more power than others in tier 1 to stay competitive. I recently started playing around with Eldar and it seems that spending power on every single unit is effectively mandatory.

You only really _need_ one upgrade per unit type. You can get away with one plasma upgrade or one banshee howl even if you have multiple guardians/banshees.

tho maybe tacs should be weakened/cheapened and require an upgrade to really kickass

[Saias]

You only really _need_ one upgrade per unit type. You can get away with one plasma upgrade or one banshee howl even if you have multiple guardians/banshees.

um, what? how are you ever going to compete against other races by just upgrading 1 Gu squad out of 3? 20% more health and multiple grenades is practically mandatory for Gu's to compete and multiple warcries allow you to cycle through to keep units suppressed for twice as long.

[glenn3e]

buff eldar

[Saias]

incitefull indeed