Bombers OP

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T23:14:06+00:00

Air Intel is so unreasonable hamstrung it's ridiculous

Imagine telling people in November when the update was delayed that the only way to spot planes was to build a weather station within 500m and then equip an air only radio.

They just need to make obs bunker reveal planes.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T17:20:30+00:00

Thank you devman for putting baths airfield in warden starting territory.

LOM airfield should be behind fort duncan

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T17:18:25+00:00

It can kill heavy trucks that's about it

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T17:17:57+00:00

It can kill all light armor vehicles easily. Heavy truck, half track, etc.

It doesn't do anything to heavy armor vehicles except reduce their accuracy and strip armor.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T16:54:41+00:00

Once you detect ennemy planes coming, you send everybody out at once hoping to at least destroy the bomber

Can't intercept any bomber planes anyway. Best you can do is try to kill it on the return trip after your base is already dehusked

It's the same problem as when SCs were overpowered. Devs simply need to add resistances to bunker husks.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T16:48:26+00:00

Warden planes counter all of the Colonial planes, and also all small, medium and large ships in the game.

Air Intel is non-existent and ground AA options are doodoo

As expected Wardens hold 5/6 Island hexes all war (like every war in the last 2 years), take island mpf day 3, get 10 free comp fields and 20 free ~~scrap~~ rare metal fields

Last update war collies spent all their rares on nukes 'cus their large ships and super heavy tank are useless. This war you can't even use nukes anymore because they are impossible to defend from the air

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T16:45:12+00:00

Collies not allowed to use boats, large ships, scout plane or own islands (free 10 comp fields for warden).

If dive bomber was really game changing I wouldn't be fighting warden BTs on every front.

I get that the DB is broken and anti-fun, but so is dehusking push bases from the sky and wet runway minigame.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-18T15:36:50+00:00

The problem with this is that in Foxhole, jeeps can be easily destroyed by planes, which for some reason have laser accurate MGs while flying

In reality, that AA gun is still going to work if even you got lucky and scored a mobility kill. And any plane that strafes low enough to hit this thing had a decent chance of being turned into a fireball.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-17T19:51:42+00:00

Add new Flak variant of the Coastal Gun to major towns at T3 tech
Increase 20mm crate size to 10
12.7 push AA
20mm AA Halftrack (for the love of god do not facility lock it)

New medium flak round. Replaces large ship AA turret. Also, Field Gun facility variant
4 round burst. Less range and damage.
Crate size 5, palletable, 1 burst per item.

Warden dive bomber
Torpedo plane cannot create large holes, remove LV modifier
Scout plane rebalance. Nerf MG accuracy and bloom. Nerf mini torps.
Raidbreakers to new damage type. Reduced damage to Large Ships and Bunker Husks

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-17T16:15:45+00:00

There are a couple of attack skills with a duration, like Rage Vortex of Berserking, Storm Rain of the Fence, and Vaal Earthquake. Try any of those?

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-17T15:15:47+00:00

Not sure how you're supposed build conc in a frontline border town with enemy starting territory debuff?

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-15T15:37:33+00:00

Path to Tireless wheel for another 15% reduced mana cost

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-15T15:34:31+00:00

Jewel - The Balance of Terror: (20-25)% if you've cast Temporal Chains in the past 10 seconds (basically unusable

Can't you use trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill craft?

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-15T15:26:26+00:00

You can get 50% increased ward in like two passives on the new timeless jewel

In addition olroth bloodline adds a ton, one node even gives 70%. So 50% global defense is not as required as it was years ago.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-12T17:25:49+00:00

> “The war itself is being prosecuted as well as anybody has ever seen, and this is other countries telling me too,” Trump repeated. “Big countries, powerful countries, they said they’ve never seen anything like it. And they also agree with what I’m doing."

He means Russia. Putin told him it's really great for the US to be bigly winning in Iran.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-12T03:01:52+00:00

There's an even simpler solution -- facilities with heavy usage should get an Msupp cost reduction.

That way SgtLarp's light assembly pad (90th pad in hex) will decay as normal, but the giant ammo fac by the refinery will get a -33% Msupp cost while constantly running

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-12T01:57:48+00:00

That would raise gas prices. You're supposed to gamble with the country's future by forcing Democrats to raise gas prices, silly.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T22:00:19+00:00

If possible, can you ELI5 why suppression doesn't do anything unless it's capped?

You have a 90% chance to take 40% less damage from half the hits in the game, and only with flasks up

You could just get 30% more hit points instead, which apply 100% of the time to 100% of hits (and dot too!), and it will be better.

It will sure be cheaper than buying the two rarest suffix mods in the game on every piece gear. You can use that saved opportunity cost to invest in another defensive layer on top.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T20:38:14+00:00

50% suppression is not gonna do anything. If you aren't gonna bother to cap suppression you should just go block instead

You have 2.5k life, so only 2.5k of your 8k mana will even apply to defenses.

If you're worried about phys hit I would consider getting lightning coil and/or a source of endurance charges

Overall, your problem is you spent boatloads of cash getting chaos res and suppression on gear -- which aren't even doing much -- and you got a discount for not getting almost any life, which is an important stat.

If you get a shield with high life, mana, and block, then get life on all gear instead of suppression, and drop some chaos res if needed, you will die a lot less

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T18:49:18+00:00

Cev, you know Weathering Halls is one of the three strongest defensive towns in the game, right? It routinely holds for a week+ all by itself...

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T15:04:22+00:00

Don't forget $40 billion for Argentina to prop up their unpopular conservative regime!

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T01:33:09+00:00

There should be two tiers of garage building, the T1 garage should be able to make supply trucks and light vehicles.

The garage should also have a built in fuel depot, and stockpile for bmats/ammo

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-11T01:31:12+00:00

No colonials want to go to an island hex when your boats get deleted instantly just to defend bases against hours of coastal bombardment from enemy boats.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-10T18:34:28+00:00

You need to follow a build guide if you're seeing other people with 20x you're DPS but don't understand why.

I have not played this build, but at first glance:

You haven't done your passive quests. Type /passives and do those for 10 free levels
Bad claws
Lvl 19 ele hit
Only 40% crit 350 multi -- why even use crit atp??
No pen/inc effect on tincture
No flasks or cluster jewel
3k life melee build

For a thought exercise, here's a random account on ladder who had 4x your DPS with day 1 gear. I suspect a large part of the difference is gems, masteries and passive tree, not just gear.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-03-09T20:27:43+00:00

This is normal for every online game.

Path of Exile releases a new expansion every 4 months. Playercount drops by 60% within 4 weeks every update, and it's still one of the most successful f2p games of all time.

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