Tohaa may be bullshit, Aleph may be beyond OP but people who don't hate Mutts with burning passion have lost control over their lives... ...or are filthy Tohaa Players because Sukeuls are fair and balanced and don't have to give a shit about E/M and Jammers.
Interesting way of saying "Nomads were made so interesting and varied in both fluff and mechanics, that it makes other factions look boring in comparison" :P
Im not sure I get the logic of this, cause a faction is not vital they should be deleted? do we just run down the list of anything not vital and delete that, like varuna isnt vital alien human relations is done better with tohaa and ariadna, delete all merc factions except the one that is the best at being and representing the merc faction, they are not plot vital anyway. Just seems a wierd way to view a setting. Like "Ditching the Nomads could be done so easily " ok? but why should they?
You could remove PanO and make Haaq hyperpower two. We've already got a real HI faction (YJ), a real "HONOR" faction (JSA). PanO's only identity is being blue and shooting well, and plenty of other factions do the latter. Also what is wrong with a faction being PC? I'm glad that the aesthetic of this game isn't potato looking men comparing the size of their penii.
Ariadna - I hate spammed profiles. I hate spammed markers. I hate spammed orders. Ariadna is almost universally composed of spam.
Tohaa weren't bad until Symbiomates. Now they're rather bullshit. Frustrating bullshit. The Mate mechanic was not well thought-out. Fluffwise, I hate the Imperial SS. Genocide for the lulz. Aesthetically, I don't like PanO guns, but PanO is really just kinda boring to me in gameplay. Shoot it in the face. If shooting it in the face doesn't work, have you tried shooting it in the face? That said, I'm slowly working on a De Fersen Mercedarian Order (combat rescue) force, trying to have zero combirifle or multirifle models. They can pack a sword instead.
I for one love Symbiomates and find them a balance part of any diet. My issue is that I could only pic one faction to hate upon
I'm going to agree with some previous sentiments. Tohaa are awful, and symbiomates are the biggest reason as to why. It's a terribly designed mechanic that feels like it was lifted straight from 40k. It's entirely linear, and offers no form of counter-play, you simply have to keep sinking orders into them until they're gone. Combined with the ridiculously optimized and undercosted unit that they're attached to, and it's an absolute drain to deal with Tohaa.
Combined Army and Onyx Contact Force are the ones that I hate to play against the most. Tohaa and Ariadna bring sloggy but fair fights; the bad aliens on the other hand, just roll out the hyper-optimized army with no bad pieces. And their visual design blows, to add insult to injury.
Am I the only person that likes how Tohaa feel? I enjoy how it limits the effects of luck allowing me to push a strategy more so then other factions. I do think the fire "weakness" is garbage.
Nah, I like Tohaa. But I also agree that Symbiomates are badly implemented. Hate the Rule not the faction. The faction the design of which I thoroughly dislike is Ariadna. They're just annoying. They're also the only faction where you regularly get stuck in a situation where it feels like you brought a Hacking Device to a Shell Game.
Between the Tohaa hate and lack of releases it feels as if the non-Tohaa playing community and CB decided to get together and attempt to drive off all the Tohaa players.
Cast my vote on Ariadna. Like the faction concept, dislike the implementation. They low tech status rarely feels like a real limitation, more like immunity to high tech.
Is there an option to vote for "whatever faction I'm playing when I lose?" They're so underpowered and the synergies are all out of whack, total garbage.
The PC Admiral is using is not Politically Correct but Player Character (it's an RPG term). It's a jab at Nomads who seem to get preferential treatment (YMMV on which side of bias you get on this topic). As for hate... I don't have a hate for a particular faction but I do have one hate in all of Infinity: camo spam Ariadna. This is where the game becomes a slog for me. I've faced off against a 20 man Keisotsu list before and it was more fun to face then a Ariadna camo spam.
