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ye, striders should be as strong as they are in hl2. Don't like it that they can tear one down by just using guns, explosives of some sort should be the way to do it :/

The strider size must be resize as because of some of the maps can be a big bugged for the strider.

Maybe you should make unit types (no armour, light-armour, heavy-armour) ex. smg1 can damage no armour units, less effective to light-armour units, and no can't damage heavy-armour units.

We have armor types but the values are still a bit conservative.
See the following link: Hl2wars.com

The strider might feel more strider-ish(?) that way, but it would unbalance the unit. as one strider could just kill 100 rebels if none of them has a rpg.

Agree that SMGs taking down the Strider feels out of place, maybe give rebels special units armed with shotguns(with explosive slug rounds maybe?) and AR2 while upping Strider's resistance to bullets may alleviate it.

Company of Heroes managed to have tanks that couldn't be harmed by infantry (unless they used munitions).

rebels got rpgs
combine got armor
combine doesn't have rpgs
rebels doesn't have armor

i dont see any problem there
if my opponent couldn't create any rpg rebels or striders - he is pretty much ****** , it his problems

Add smg nade into the mod,it will balance the strider vs rebel forces as any explosives can harm it.smg nade isn't strong but it will take down striders.

Removing the strider seems like a minus for me, perhaps improvising a rebel tank (make a variant of combine tank), but limiting everything to infantry dosen't seem a good idea. And looking excesively for realism, would mean that the Combine, etc. shouldnt be here, at all.

In my opinion, that is.

Instead of a tank, what about that buggy thing, or the car that you had to drive in the main game but with a mounted gun with armour piercing rounds. Or if able, you could have addons to the vehicles like in Dawn of War and one option is a rebel with a rocket launcher or something. Just an idea. That would also open a possibility to order your vehicles to run over the enemy troops or perhaps drive into the Strider's legs. Could offer new tactics.

You mean increase the size of the map

Buggy with tau cannon? or helicopter (Mil Mi-8) with rockets (that one we saw in white forest base hl2 ep2) Half-life.wikia.com

This might be a good idea. Maybe some kind of rebel shock trooper squad with makeshift armour and one guy armed with a Tau Cannon with the rest have AR2s?