I have played multiple games where my commander got sniped by the laser platform without me even noticing. The last game where it happened I had avengers near my commander they didn't do ****! Orbital is still really hard to spot by the icons. They should be more distinctive than normal units. The range of auto attack by the avengers is way to small (results in more micromanagement). Maybe avengers on the same planet as the commander should automatically defend the commander in case a laser platform is attacking the commander?
Than what is the purpose of Avengers? It's quite expensive to cover all your buildings with Umbrella's
That's a bit like saying 'What's the point in tanks when you can build turrets?' If you want to protect your commander have avengers patrolling above him, or build umbrellas. You could also notice the laser and actually send your avengers to defend, if you don't have some level of control you might as well watch the AI play for you.
^ BOOM!!!! Yep try placing a few avenger s on patrol above your base next time.....and you don't need a lot of umbrella, their range is fairly sizeable. To answer your avenger question, they do more than kill lasers, they kill sat and lander too always nice to patrol over a know enemy orbital as well pretty obvious they clear the orbital skies of other avenger
My avengers were on patrol but still did not attack the laser platform (out of range apparently). And like i told before i didn't noticed i was being attack by a laser platform my commander just went boom. I'm a quite experienced player so win. I was battle ling mostly an other player (black) and we both were quite big. I had an umbrella but i had to move my commander because there were a lot of tanks coming in the direction of my commander. there was also another player (blue) who only build one laser platform and took us booth out in just 1 minute (planet size 4). I think you have to find out for your self the laser platform is unbalanced and not really noticeable when your attacked by it.
It's the same as getting nuked. You should have build an anti-nuke or nuked the enemy first. Getting your commander blown up by nuke or bombarded by a laser platform is no fun. That is why there is a way to counter it. If you don't build it that is an other thing. Maybe the new UI will give a warning or something. For now, an Umbrella next to the anti-nuke and maybe some avengers on patrole. Game is in Beta, UI not finnished yet.
