Defensive Drone, Barbed Wire

[Archius]

Hi guys!

English is not my first language, so can someone explain what the **** does the Barbed Wire description mean, please? The game explains it "Ground Attackers take 25% of damage dealt as damage when damaging Walls and Bastions".

To me that is gibberish... Damage dealt as damage when damaging? So, what is happening? 25% damage of what?

 

[SomeRandomPlayer]

Here's how I interpret it: say you shoot a wall and do 100 damage to it; with this directive active you do 25 damage to yourself and 100 damage to the wall. You might do 75 damage to the wall instead of 100, I'm not certain.

 

[Archius]

Thanks!

So, a weak ground troop against a high ranking wall might kill himself in the process, even if no one is shooting at him.
I think that the game makes attacking too hard already, even without all these defense add-ons. But that's just me...

 

[King Crimson]

Thanks!

So, a weak ground troop against a high ranking wall might kill himself in the process, even if no one is shooting at him.
I think that the game makes attacking too hard already, even without all these defense add-ons. But that's just me...

Think of it as a ricochet ...

 

[SirBiggun]

I agree attacking is too hard as is. But to me it’s the counterintelligence that’s the worse , makes blitz and sabots useless , it’s too OP

 

[King Crimson]

But to me it’s the counterintelligence that’s the worse , makes blitz and sabots useless , it’s too OP

I used to think that too but in reality I'm only engaging Drone age bases approx 10% of the time - don't know how often you come across these - and even then not all of them have the drone building - so in the end its not that big a deal, at least for me.
Forces me to think a little differently every now and then, which is a good thing.

 

[SomeRandomPlayer]

Also directives are only active roughly half of the battle that DC is around, so the word "useless" doesn't really fit here.