Bortas too strong?

posted on March 20th, 2010, 11:33 pm

After a few 3v3s today, and I was klingon everytime. They only thing that let us win was the Bortas Ion storm. I managed to kill 8 Defenders, 12 b-5s, numorous bugs, v-13s, s-2s, generexes, tavaras, and a whole bunch of other things. I had Moqba on of course. I managed to keep their fleets inside the storm with Qua'Duwj poloron field, and vorchas poloron torp, while my KeBeQus used their disrupor to frie the rest. My question for you is, is this fair? Does the Bortas need a fix? If so, what should happen to it?

posted on March 20th, 2010, 11:35 pm

Between their cost, place in the techtree and the stupidity of an enemy that allows you to build them, they are ok as they are.

[Myles]

posted on March 20th, 2010, 11:36 pm

Last edited by Myles on March 20th, 2010, 11:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i think its fair, it takes a lot of time resources and micro to get a bortas at its best. so if your enemy scouts and spots you building an imperial research, they can bet you are going with bortas. which means they can prepare in advance and attack your bortases.

as its so hard to get them out, that the reward is justified

EDIT: as tyler quite accurately says, if your opponent gives u enough breathing room to make those doom bringers, show him he was wrong to, and steamroll him

posted on March 20th, 2010, 11:49 pm

Wait.

Funny, you climbed as fast as you could to the top of the Martok tech tree and built Negh'vars and Bortas?

Nooo....you would never do that.

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:32 am

Actualy it was late game and I had a lot of res. I allready had 8 vorchas, 20 KbeQues + Qua' Duj.

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:43 am

lol....maybe they should scout ahead, not send their entire fleet in 1 blob next time!

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:45 am

I thought we'd been over this before...  :sweatdrop: . It's like teching to Hyperspace Artillery. Powerful situational units. Of course, the Polaron Field is just plain evil right now - so it'll be nice to see it go. Unlimited AoE weapons just are never very fun unless they are limited or have some severe downside.

[Konsumat]

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:45 am

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lol easy said arash, of course you keep your fleet in one blop on huge fleet encouters

ninjad by dom

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:49 am

I thought Poloron field was limited to 5 ships

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on March 21st, 2010, 12:51 am

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Lasts 5 seconds, but it's an unlimited ability as far as I've known - been that way for it's entire career 

EDIT: just rechecked. Used one Polaron Field on 15 ships.... 15 ships with disabled systems 

posted on March 21st, 2010, 2:14 am

What fun!

posted on March 21st, 2010, 2:29 am

are nanites also unlimited? or are they limited to 5 ships because of system disabling change is recent addition? or just polaron field with different graphic and name 

posted on March 21st, 2010, 3:06 am

Does the Poleron Field affect crew? Because I think Nanites do.

posted on March 21st, 2010, 3:45 am

I think it can affect any subsystem Im affraid

posted on March 21st, 2010, 3:47 am

All but shields.  You can look at it the odf, which will give you the percent chance of each subsystem being affected.