Star Wars: Empire at War is a Perfectly Balanced Masterpiece 

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Just saying. Snow speeder spam

When they made the Forces of Corruption expansion, it feels like they said,"we made a cool new faction! Let's give them... *all the things* "

Hey vale you should play command and conquer 3

When an entire army invades and you have like 3 infantry squads just hide and build a shit ton of turrets and hope you either win after rebuilding them for 30 min straight or kill like half their army. And if your attacking and have no chance to win just hide and gather all your units together so they can't pick you off and just wait for bombing runs and orbital strikes to replenish and just do that to win.

Still better than Admiral Akbar's death

@@scottski02 Yeah oh no they killed a character who was mostly known for a meme in such a horrible way!!! You know most people don't want a film filled with pure fan service.

. if Akbar meant that little to the writers then why even have him in the film at all? Either treat characters with respect or don't have them at all. I'd rather have a film with fan service than a film with fan hatred, which was what TLJ was.

@scottski02 It's supposed to be a reference to the keen eyed.. Also like Ackbar is mostly known for a fucking meme! The general audience can't exactly take a heroic sacrifice by a fishman seriously. How was it about fan hatred??? The villain's ideals? Umm the movie is about how that's wrong. Luke? Because he wasn't space god? Or because the whiny farm boy prone to quitting grew old after trauma and had more trauma which made him quit? Oh boy! Do i even need to address that further? The Nike campaign? Since the movie itself didn't do any more feminist shit than the origtrig did.. The hyperspace ram? It was established in Legends (for example the shourd's plan in swtor is to fuck up corucant by ramming ships into it from hyperspace) it was also established in Tarkin and that came out in 2014. PLEASE FUCKING TELL ME HOW IT WAS ABOUT FAN HATRED

@Kaja de Borst You know that one of the bigger critiques of R1 was that the deaths didn't feel like they mattered so yeah.. in universe it's not a surprise that they named a ship after him, that's not a hard concept to understand. But if it was set up by characters in the universe that means that people have done it before! Like goddammit, also the reasons why they wouldn't use ships for that include: Hyperspace drives cost a lot of money, The Empire has a way bigger fleet than the rebels, you have to be really lucky to pull off that much destruction (the debri is what destroyed the rest of the fleet and the explosion happened cause the raddus had a strong prototype shield) and considering that it destroyed like 1/10th? of snoke's ship if you do the math you would need a way bigger ship to destroy the death star, which is something that the rebels didn't have and even if they did they wouldn't waste their prime asset in a fleet battle by ramming it towards 1 superweapon that can be taken out with small starfighters. I do agree with the your last point partially cause he was ready to sacrifice the galaxy to save his friends and that usually 180 don't work. But then you seem to forget that Luke almost killed Vader when he mentioned Leia, so why wouldn't he CONSIDER for a split second that killing one loved one could save the rest? Again he just considered it and turned the lightsaber on out of instinct, he immediately regretted it and was never going to do it. (also remember how real visions seem like? tfa shows this so it's not really that big of a stretch that a war veteran would consider doing that after seeing shit like it)

How about how he tried to just target the Droidekas, when the factory was right there. Would've been hilarious to see him fighting Droidekas and not notice the factory just pump out another every time one died.

The Galaxy ain't free

"Many Bothans died" is now "Many Ewoks died"

At least now they're useful for something.

You just have to make sure that your bullshit broken tactic beats your opponents bullshit broken tactic.

Weeaboo Dude Seeing as there isn't any balancing updates for the game it is very rare that the multiplayer meta really changes, asides from cycling through strats that counter eachother, saying that i don't think anyone could balance this game properly.

@@callan6499 talking about the skirmish. Remove the rebels MC80 and the consortiums mass drivers. And maybe the keldabe battleships ability. and nerf the skipray gunboat.

Depends on Situation though. While the Rebels have a pretty much all-powerful Ground-Unit (Garm Bel Iblis and his Tank), the Consortium has literally superior stuff in all "Normal"-Units both on Ground and in Space (not to mention this completly overpowered Corruption-System of theirs), while the Empire is, on the latest Tech-Levels, ridiculously broken in Space. Seriously, the Hero-Units and Death-Star II alone can win every single fight, not to mention that the letter makes Ground-fighting obsolete since it can just blow the whole Planet up, negating the one true advantage the Rebels have in this entire Game. It's still a ton of fun to play though.^^

yeah the empire dominates late game which makes sense and the consortium dominate md game because theyre the first to get an economy sorted out and rebels dominate the early game and can use that early advantage to quickly get a significant advantage for later on

>Uses X-wing close s-foils ability which increases speed, calls it 'Attack Position'

>Has 400+hours in the game yet has only played as the Empire

Using orbital bombardments and airstrikes are my primarily means of attack when assaulting the enemy base in a land invasion.

Even more, doesn't even know that you and the enemy both can make additional troops on the planet, doesn't know units and has no micro skill at all, and never seen turrets in act before.

@@NameName2.0 you didn't have to call me out like that

It makes sense, because the rebels were basically space terrorists

Every insurrection ever. Unless it's funded by an outside power.

*sniff* painfull memories... *sniff*

Yes I do remember..... And I remember wishing death upon the developers immediately afterwards. I didn't stop playing though.

@@scottski02 Same, my dude. I genuinely want to know how an entire team of people looked at Zann Consortium as a faction and said "Yes, this seems fair".

+Bear Van Helsing Probably the same way they looked at the broken Rebellion artillery and said "This is fine."

@@scottski02 I can deal with the rebellion having like 2 maybe 3 overpowered units since in general I would say their faction is the weakest. My problem mainly comes with zann and all the broken bullshit they can pull, like preventing fighters from spawning, one shot thing hard points, getting got tier capital ships, etc. etc.

All of those were because the map was bad, nothing to do with him. No, he's a pro gamer.

Bruh, just fighters? Get 5 or 6 starvipers and they can shred FRIGATES

Bruh, Canderous tanks and Pulse guns to roflstomp AT-ATs was priceless. Oh, and Defilers mass-raping worlds for cheap.

my fave #totallybalanced tactic in space is to mass vengeance frigates and keep vossk and a couple units defending the station after that take a starviper squadron far behind the enemy, call inall the vengeances and cloak them, get them right under the enemy station and then attack it the base just melts away

+Systemhalodark Those fucking Canderous tanks . . . in a game where pretty much every unit is unbalanced, those tanks find a way to be the worst. When playing as the Consortium, I'd like to know if there's any reason to not just spam those tanks in every land battle?

Starvipers aka basalisk war droids

But they solve every problem we have!

Two words *Land speeders*

No Kidding. I played GC as Empire, medium difficulty. The Rebel AI spams Torpedo ships, making space combat insanely frustrating. ALL the Consortium AI does is spam Canderous Tanks And missle launchers. Spams them to max unit capacity on EVERY PLANET IN THE GALAXY!! Argh

You spelled *Cancerous* wrong lol

garlicxlr Thanks for the correction😂

Who needs land battles when you can just blow up the planet? *que Darth Vader theme*

Lockret yeah and if you play galactic assault you can just setup fleets above all the planets and get however big of an army as you want

The funny thing is that 40k imperial guard tactics can actually work for the rebels. Just treat the natives as guardsmen, they can either tie up the enemy allowing your good units to get stuff done, and they can also eventually grind down the opposition while taking massive casualties.

Yeah it is! People still play it because there hasn't been a game like it. Well except for universe at war, but even that's pretty different. Mod support is pretty impressive too, and that community is still alive as well. EAW remake came out just last year, and it greatly improves the graphics and adds some new units and tweaks w/o breaking the original's philosophy. The consortium have weaknesses as well if we're talking balance. They really can't play from behind, and their ships are all glass cannons. Aggressors might have that really good cannon, but it's ONE hardpoint you have to destroy to make the ship absolutely useless. Ditto w/ mass drivers. They're still a massive pain in multiplayer though because corruption is a really powerful mechanic that's hard to deal with if a player is committed to abusing it.

Rebelions actualy the strongest in space. Just build the MC80 frigates it has multiple rapid fire proton torpedo launchers... which ignore shields... and its very fast. And it destroys fighters too.

Also ya. Steam eventually took over for the servers after game spy closed.

It's genuine when someone says this game has the best mods ever. The community lives on because 3rd party development has only ever gotten better.

my name jeff

So does anyone else's nutsauce reek of fish?

whats rts

Ali Hamarat Real time strategy

Also I’m sure you mean ZannyVids right? Because this Valefisk guy is totally ripping him off.

Android_ELITE been there done that,still cant win the first rebel mission.

He found out how to do bombing runs an hour into the game and lost a space battle with 4 heroes, 6 X-wing Squadrons, 2 Y-wing Squadrons and an artillery barge oh and a Nebulon-B, I don't think he'll be coming back to EAW any time soon

"I don't think he'll be coming back to EAW any time soon" but this is literally part 1 of 2?

@@songbird5842 oh rip me

@@Goon2205 I've beaten 2 calamari cruisers with escort with only 2 acclamator classes and a level 3 space station. I've only lost one acclamator.

@@Renvira i once beat a Star Destroyer using only a Corvette. The AI is dumb and i exploited it. I hid the Corvette in an asteroid field and the idiot sent the Star Destroyer in the asteroid field to get destroyed. It was a very memey cat and mouse game I have ever done the fighters and bombers were nothing too

Why not 70?

And the rebellion has like 30 of those capital ship destoryers and like 30 marauder cruisers

@@flabbywall1780 *"You wouldn't understand" *

Yep.

I am not sure that you will survive long enough.

Locking them increases speed but reduces how much they can shoot.

Could they do a three-way with Forces of Corruption installed?

Grayscale Plaid I dont think the game supports 3 player galactic conquest, not 100% though.

@@axelblack1799 Makes sense. Unless it's only auto resolve I don't see it working. What would the 3rd player do while the other 2 fight each other?

Axel Black i think there is a mod for that

@@Tonypikmin I Think a three-way multiplayer campaign could be pretty interesting- the way i saw it was that time would just pass really slowly when the other 2 were fighting each other, or the 3rd player could spectate the battle (how this would work, would be a bit more complicated). This would also make for some pretty interesting Campaigns- you could have the rebels and the empire teaming up to take out the shitty consortium, or the rebels and the cons teaming up when the emp builds vader and the DS and takes out IG88 with boba- could make for some pretty interesting space battles And in thrawns revenge- well...

Make Tyber Zahn cannon again

Chewbacca

Soldier “let me see some identification” TZ waves hand like Jedi “u don’t need to see my identification” Soldier “look at this guy waving his hand around like he’s some kind of Jedi. Ok I’ll play along, why don’t I need to see ur identification?” TZ “because ur dead”.

Crayz How about 751 also with some cool mods

They actually start off with S Foils locked, which is why when you hit the button they say "Full throttle" because you're unlocking S Foils

That doesn't sound like a problem to me.

You need to work on your delivery

Delivery needs to be better but I see what your doing

HAHAHAHA

Ah i see your a man of culture aswell

Haha so true Axis are so weak^^

BFGA2 soon with now 12 time the heresy :D