[Rothnang]

The reason why the shield would be overpowered is for the same reason its overpowered on the Vanguard, because it lets them win any damage race situation easily.

Whenever you get into a fight where its just two units locked in a fight where neither of them can really get away, and neither of them can really be expected to miss with its shots and they just race each other to zero hitpoints the guy with the X seconds of invulnerability ability is going to inevitably win. Once he figured out that he will inevitably win he will learn how to force those situations.

I mean, stealth or a boost of speed might allow you to get away from that sort of fight, but it's not just air vs. air balance that's an issue there, but more the fact that you can activate the shield and just hover in front of 5 burster maxes while shooting missiles at them. There is no situation in which stealth or speed buys you the time to just sit there and damage race a unit while it can't even touch your health bar.


Also, I don't know why afterburners ram you into the ground. Afterburners are nice, but they really don't make you go fast enough to completely get away from all enemy fire.