A possible alternative to multiple factions

You are both blowing my mind right now. How closed your view is on this is incredible. Skins CAN be purely aesthetic, they don't have to mean anything but that the unit looks different. It's still the same race, one just has different shoulder pads on its bots...

Don't give a guys with a sword a gun; give him a different looking sword!

But those Swords have particular stats that are unique to them, making them look different only adds the difficult in unit readability unless you've memorized all the skins, when you get in teh kinds of numbers present in PA you making things that much worse.

You call us close-minded, but you are the one that can't acknowledge that you can't use the system and justifications you use in Halo in a completely different Game like PA.

Mike

Factions wouldn't be too bad, generals did it very well with out going down the sc route. As long as I can blow **** up im happy

Just do it like dawn of war 2 and give units extra bits as custom skins (orks put on a helmet, bot can bolt on some armor etc)

Unit looks the same, not too many art assets, and people pay good money for those skins.