ARM and Core
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ARM and Core
I just started playing, and dont know which one to play as.
Can someone list the pros and cons of each?
Can someone list the pros and cons of each?
I'll assume you're talking about BA, but it's similar for all the TA based mods.
Basically, ARM have more special ops stuff. A lot of cloaking units and EMP weapons. They also have a better airforce. They also have some of the faster raiding units. They get a little weaker as you go further in the tech tree.
CORE are more brute force. Very little access to cloaking and EMP and stuff. Their units are a bit slower and a bit more expensive. However, they are generally more powerful than their ARM equivalents. They get a bit stronger as you move up the tech tree.
Storywise, CORE used to own the galaxy and run everybody in a happy utopia thing. Basically an Earth government thing. Then one day it decided to upload everyone's consciousness onto computer and discard the bodies, making them functionally immortal. ARM didn't want to be part of a computer so they had a civil war and TA was all about fighting near the end of this war. Theoretically, ARM have clone people in battlesuits while CORE has humans on computers copied into machine robots, but the story of TA was never really well fleshed out and pretty much none of it matters.
Basically, ARM have more special ops stuff. A lot of cloaking units and EMP weapons. They also have a better airforce. They also have some of the faster raiding units. They get a little weaker as you go further in the tech tree.
CORE are more brute force. Very little access to cloaking and EMP and stuff. Their units are a bit slower and a bit more expensive. However, they are generally more powerful than their ARM equivalents. They get a bit stronger as you move up the tech tree.
Storywise, CORE used to own the galaxy and run everybody in a happy utopia thing. Basically an Earth government thing. Then one day it decided to upload everyone's consciousness onto computer and discard the bodies, making them functionally immortal. ARM didn't want to be part of a computer so they had a civil war and TA was all about fighting near the end of this war. Theoretically, ARM have clone people in battlesuits while CORE has humans on computers copied into machine robots, but the story of TA was never really well fleshed out and pretty much none of it matters.
In xta the main difference is that core have vastly superior economical developement, whereas arm get a mid game offensive edge.
This is because the core can build mini-fusions to power their mohos, thus being able to go adv kbot and get necros up early. Arm, however, must go advanced vehicles in order to access the mobile fusion, the tradeoff for lower build power being (primarily) the very cheap catch all defence skirmisher that is the spider, and the awesomely awesome panther.
The longer you allow a core player to build and creep fowards with large implaceable units, the harder time you will have as arm.
I normally draw a parallel with c&c red alert factions, the arm being the allies, and the core being the soviets: Fast moving specialised units with low armour vs the sledgehammer of heavy armour with supporting artillery.
e: for the record i prefer arm for aesthetic reasons
This is because the core can build mini-fusions to power their mohos, thus being able to go adv kbot and get necros up early. Arm, however, must go advanced vehicles in order to access the mobile fusion, the tradeoff for lower build power being (primarily) the very cheap catch all defence skirmisher that is the spider, and the awesomely awesome panther.
The longer you allow a core player to build and creep fowards with large implaceable units, the harder time you will have as arm.
I normally draw a parallel with c&c red alert factions, the arm being the allies, and the core being the soviets: Fast moving specialised units with low armour vs the sledgehammer of heavy armour with supporting artillery.
e: for the record i prefer arm for aesthetic reasons
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