Would you put bazooka into your combo?

[SiuYin]

The new university leader provide us 30% buff in both HP / DPS for Bazooka, would you put them into your combo

 

[Seraph]

Only if you're one of the few people who have little use for oil and can afford to. I still have to max out the new leader and max out my heavy transport before I even think of using bazookas for fun. I also use them for hard war attacks sometimes because they do bring a lot of damage but watching them die breaks my heart due to oil cost per.

 

[rederoin]

Ive been using them in most war attacks for months now.

 

[Luuzer]

not yet, but who knows what far far future brings in couple of years when all oil requiring researches are done

 

[yemen]

A lot of us already used them, at least in time race wars... The new leader is a nice boost, but they were already useable. Not an option in the poll.

 

[Manifesto]

I use 3 of them in mp attacks as a cleanup crew. One shot takes out most buildings and each of mine can take 3-4 shots from a tower without even flinching, except AT towers of course.
I experimented with them as a bigger force in a regular combo and they win attacks so much quicker but their speed and range gets them in front of the other troops, which results in a higher death toll than others.
Mine are Elite Bazooka and I haven't even started Haile's research. Even tanks don't phase them.

 

[Bootney Lee Fonsworth]

Been using them for wars for quite awhile. Their range, movement speed and cost make them problematic for raiding. A bit too expensive to blunder away from the pack to find every trap. Hell, isn't that what heavy artillery is for?

Probably the one unit in the game that would benefit from moving slower.

 

[LordAnubis]

Nope. In my beast mode 11 melee infantry do far more damage than bazooka ever could and they last longer.

 

[Manifesto]

Are you comparing 11 infantry to 1 bazooka, or 11 bazookas?

 

[SiuYin]

I try to put them in my combo for a while

Bad Part:
1. Very expensive, they cost 300+ oil and easily got killed by silo's AoE, it will be more useful if lower the cost to around 150 oil
2. Long training time, it take 5m30s to retrain, with its casualty rate, I hope the training time could be 2m30s, same as machine gun

Good Part
1. Very good DPS, I surprisingly find that, it is really really good in breaching wall and bring down building
2. Nice HP, able to survive from one hit of silo

General speaking, they are nice unit but its cost stop me to put them into combo.


I still looking for below buff
Increase Range 3 ->4 in order to increase their chance of survival

reduce cost and training time by 50%

 

[GailWho]

I have good luck with bazookas. I use 8 of them in my comp. They are a good compliment to my APCs. They tear through bases pretty quickly. But I have done some of the research on them and I like using American and Ethiopian coals.

 

[LordAnubis]

Manifesto Im comparing the two zooks 8 space (even 4 zooks) vs 11 german melee infants.... f#$k stuff up and confuses defenders when speed deployed on a nice spread. while my mk5s do the rest.

 

[Manifesto]

So just for wars then?
Or do you use the same combo in mp?

 

[cos_pi]

I use 12 bazookas in war, pretty good to get a good time on bases.

Use the left over in multiplayers also. And as long as 1-2 die i retrain them. but if 5-6 die in one multiplayer, I replace them with shooters/tanks

 

[_Flash_]

I voted "Yes, it is great buff", but, I meant that only in the context of wars. I too use 8 of them in my war army composition, and, similar to what GailWho said, I use them in conjunction with APCs.
I don't use bazookas in multi-player battles. Their lower life expectancy, their training cost, and the training time don't yet make them viable in multi-player troop compositions for me.

 

[GailWho]

Yes I use them in MP when I’m raiding for food and gold. I replace them with FH and shooters when I am raiding for oil. Lately have been trying to build up my walls but as a side effect accumulated oil and now have about 50% of the level 6 Laine Selassie complete which has improved their performance and losses. When they do get killed I don’t wait for them to train I just roll without them while they train so on average I now have 6 or 7 of them on the field. Whereas before it would be more like 4 or 5.

 

[Saruman the White]

Most of times I take two with me. They easily get killed, but they do their part vs tanks, walls and buildings as long as I can keep them alive. Usually I accompany them with Machine Gun Infantry and other Infantry units

 

[BeerMan]

I roll with a lot of different war armies depending on the base I'm attacking, but I always like to keep a handful of RPGs in there for cleanup duty. They can destroy most buildings in one shot, and they are great for clearing out that last 20% of the base. Can save 10 to 15 seconds on your attack time.

I used to use them more heavily and deployed with main army, but since I started facing more and more max CWA bases with 3D, they die too easily and I had to adjust my troop mix.

 

[sileepuppee]

They are great in war, don't use them in MP unless I use them to clear up the last few buildings or if there's likely no chance for them to die. The dps is great and it was good even before the buffs so it's likely more people are going to use them now though the oil cost for the research isn't low either. In war I always take 4-8 depending on the situation. As mentioned above, works well with apcs because the infantry from the apc "Generally" stay in front to shield them. They also work together well to break through walls. I used to have wall breakers but their a.i. has been very dubious for me that I stopped using them.