So Halo Wars 2 has become one of my favorite RTS games in a while. One thing I love other than Scarabs, Giant sentinels, and pelicans with lasers is leaders. I love the hero units especially once you realize that the Douglas a Spartan II compared to the size of Banished scarab. Also on the topic of Spartans, the Vanilla leaders(Cutter, Isabel, Anders.) all have base spartans and they aren’t that good compared to the other leaders Jeromes Comand mantis, The Bison, and the flame cyclops. Most of my play time on this game have been on Anders while my friends play on other leaders, and their first unit to get out usually is there leader. I am always concentrated on building anti air and my focus is always on my smaller units, mostly because my hero isn’t that good or any of the Vanilla Spartans. I really don’t know why they aren’t that good. Every time before a war I put a my spartini’s in Viechles(I know I spelled that wrong) and when the tanks die the Spartan hops out and continues the fight even a fully upgraded Spartan isn’t that good. I am not a game doveloper so I don’t understand TRUE balance as well as 343 i does, but I do think all leaders should be viable. Like how Comander Jerome is good up to a point then he should call down the command mantis. The Bison and the Sergents warthog are both great. Even the cyclopses are good. But the Base Spartans should be better(Another thing I would love to see is new executions for omega team and against the vehicles)
They need a slight buff.
But…
Veterancy needs to be fixed. No only for the Spartans, but all larger units. I played a skirmish game as Cutter the other day and took well over 40 minutes of micro’ing Jerome only to have him increase 1, barely two stars… That’s with two leader points into Cutters veterancy perks…
Ridiculous.
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> They need a slight buff.
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> But…
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> Veterancy needs to be fixed. No only for the Spartans, but all larger units. I played a skirmish game as Cutter the other day and took well over 40 minutes of micro’ing Jerome only to have him increase 1, barely two stars… That’s with two leader points into Cutters veterancy perks…
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> Ridiculous.
It feels like the curves between heroes are very different.
The honor guard and warlord both seem to vet up very quickly, whilst it’s literally taken me over 30 kills with kinsano to get vet 1. I think it needs some adjustment between the individual heroes.
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> It feels like the curves between heroes are very different.
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> The honor guard and warlord both seem to vet up very quickly, whilst it’s literally taken me over 30 kills with kinsano to get vet 1. I think it needs some adjustment between the individual heroes.
I totally agree. I don’t play those leaders so often… But I can confirm that the Spartans all need some help. There’s no way I should have to micro one hero for 30 minutes in a skirmish game just to increase the veterancy one level… Spartans are famous for the veterancy. Look back at HW1… Here there shouldn’t be a problem getting a Spartan jacked unit to 6 stars, but it is. Almost impossible. Especially with leader powers and what’s not.