Orca was over-nerfed with respect to reload time. It was not effective at finishing off vehicles and buildings if it ran out of ammo, because it took way too long to reload.
Its reload time has been set to the old one, but now it reloads 2 pips at a time, so it is slightly slower than originally, but not by much. It's a bit OP when it loads one at a time, it seems.
Reload period for orca inreased. Fully reloading is roughly equal to the amount of time it would take to go from the center of an 80x80 map to your home base, land, reload, and return to the center. (About 30 seconds).
There is +1 rocket than before, because each rocket has been weakened. This makes the orca take longer to unleash its full payload.
Chinook had "Re-arms at: HPAD" entered in its rules, even though it has no weapons. This is what caused it to return to base when you hit 'F' instead of land.
Now it lands again when you hit F. *phew* so happy :)
Orca has been shown in playtesting to be too good in large groups. Reducing HP to 90 so that bike rockets, e3 rockets can kill in 3 shots instead of 4.
Returning ammo to 5 again, because adding that extra rocket ended up making a much bigger difference than expected.
Orca ammo reduced from 10 to 5, since
Increased toal ammo from 5 to 6, since orcas seem to be a bit weak vs. tanks, flame tanks, etc.
Apache Helicopter & Orca sight range increased from 8 to 10. Seems good here, I wouldn't increase anymore, or they will be too good at scouting by themselves. Leaving it here requires using other units for their scouting value.
A-10 sight range increased from 8 to 12. This makes the airstrike better for scouting, and seems to make sense for an airplane. Since it's a superpower, won't be too powerful.
Weapons are now defined with the Armament trait
and turret parameters live in Turreted.
This has the side effect of allowing any number
and distribution of weapons and turrets.
Helicopters get explosions, when they fall from the sky, and then when they collide with the ground (and do damage).
A-10 HP raised from a very small 60 to 150.
Halved Chinook price, $1500 to $750.
Infantry should be a more feasible strategy, and transporting them quickly will make them more usable.
This should be good for Nod especially since they don't have APCs.
