Super Units in PA?

As long as you get what I mean, suggest away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok here is it ... spiderbotstyle megabot with only one giant butt constant firing laserweapon That runs on energy ... no energy = no peeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... wwwwwwwww..... .....wwwwwww etc.

not really what I was aiming for.

Then explain... i may have missed stuff

I mean come on .... reclaiming vacuumsumo and siegebreaking laserspider ... baaam

And no im sry but you cant run megaunits like normal units .... they are no normal units they are special units and special units need special rules .... actualy every unit needs a propper ruleset relative to how powerfull it is ... as i said before i am for a propper risk to rewardratio for any option that is available to me

Those both sound reasonable to me. I was originally thinking the weapon on the metal planet should be a giant reclaimation ray that ate the target planet and gave you resources

Err well a unit with a spider bot like laser is, that kind of weapon is generally good at everything.

But a annihilator laser is only good against slow-moving single targets, like tanks, battleships or turrets, and fires slowly enough to not just be overwhelmed by small cannon fodder units, but by even the unit's they actually counter if they have so support.

They are full on specialised units, with a weapon that while powerful, can't do everything.

Now Im not saying that the microwave laser couldn't be balanced to be a kind on anti-swarm weapon, with a little aoe and kinda poor DPS to make focusing on targets a bad idea, it still is kinda easy to dominate the ground game.

Now that point might seem kinda bull**** considering that massed up annihilators could also dominate the land game.

But DPS is much stronger in a game like this, along with aoe where hitting lots of little htings at the same time is really what you want.

Its like, TOO good.

There is a lot of fun that can be done with metal planets.

could be slow to aquire new targets. Generally overkills most things (no wreckage) and really only awesome against high health / stationary targets

Could be could be.

Id remove the aoe from it's laser, but still keep it's dps relatively low-medium.

SO it' can kill like a dox within seconds, but it has to move from target to target.

Kinda like the void ray from starcraft.

Well those would be the factors that need be balanced then
It doesnt need to change the general idea of the unit
If it does consume like say (arbitrary number) 15000 energy for 500(?) damage per second with either having a slow moving turret to change target or needing to run hot before it fires for every time it stops firing or both that might be something that may work and also limit how many of those bots you can/should have at a time ... aside from power and consumtion there is also of course range ... no one said it has to be long range
It could be medium to low range which would require it to get close first making ranged missile or cannon weapons preferable ... there are many factors of how you can ballance and experiment with such units

True, although I will say that what you are describing does sound like the upcoming flame tanks.

Just copy the Krogoth from TA.
That wasn't over powered and in fact wasn't even worth the resources.
It could be easily swarmed, bombed in to oblivion, nuked...Even a few spider bots would stop it dead.
Only the Core faction could build Krogoth as well.

Dont you mean already existing .... though i would consider flametanks almost meleerange

Well that's even worse, a unit you wouldn't ever consider building.

Krogoth was balanced. And it was worth building.

So what now ?balanced and worth the resources or not?

Go play TA child.
You simply do not understand.

Just because you are bad at explaining it grandpa

No it was not, and even on the unlimited money metal maps, more artillery was always superior to ever having to deal with the hassle of building a krogath.

Frankly the only ever use for them was as a suicide bomber with enough HP to actually get there.

You misunderstand entirely, riot control = crowd control, so a weapon-system that can target multiple targets but not bring all that firepower to bear on one single target is totally useful and completely balanced; It means that if its used for a purpose not intended for it (attack a base), it might get the job done if its left alone (unlikely) but it will take longer than a cheaper blob of units but when its tasked to take care of a large group of hostile units, it will definitely do the business.

You were too vague in your description
So how do you imagine that? A sort of walking bunker with cannons in every direction that cant rotate much to propperly focus fire with more turrets on one target?