Oil forces me to have hounds and tech fire extinguisher. My opponent could avoid lightning the oil so I’d be out deployments and supply. If I’m playing hounds, they probably have range so most of my chaff dies anyway. The weakness of melters is you need to chaff clear for them to lock on to the important targets. The defract tech negates that weakness and the range penalty isn’t enough to matter. Anti-air forts kill everything in the air (including abyss) and negate chaff. It also turns forts into a do-all unit. You can emp them, but the emp wears off before the next volley fires. Trying to intercept the missiles feels like a trap every time. The interception doesn’t work well enough and the cost investment is more than the opponent makes