Give me a reason to go vehicle first

The major part I see is that you will produce 20% more veh fabbers than bot fabbers in your fabber only factory if that's how you play. Give or take the 4 sec roll off time for that extra fabber.

Went skitters once and it was surprisingly very good. Managed to kill off enemy exterior mexes. Granted this wa sin combination with an air factory as it was a team FFA game, but it certainly didn't put us behind in any manner.

I have used skitters to destroy enemy laser towers simply by bumrushing them.

This is the main reason why I was so vehemently against the change of the commander's uber cannon to being both long range and rapid firing.

Vehicle factory supports a more conservative/defensive playstyle than the bot factory or the air factory. It's perfectly possible to defend against bots with a smaller number of Taffies, and vehicle "rushes" gave you more time to prepare. So I'd have preferred a game where you were encouraged to start building military early and not rewarded for teching as hard and fast.


Particularly seeing the almost total lack of empire building present in PA


After seeing skitter rushes in action, I'm not really convinced they're all they're hyped up to be. For cost, yeah Doxen are slower, but they give you way more firepower and health, so Skitter rushes tend to get chased off by them