Remix Escalation is an Expansion Pack styled mod focused on bringing an entirely unique feel to every general. Hundreds of new units, powers, buildings, and three new Generals have already been added. Remix has been hosted on Revora for several years and is being added to ModDB to share with the wider community.
Remix Escalation Forward Shields
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Description
The shield tech tree grants forward shields to the heavy tanks. These can be upgraded twice for better protection. The last upgrade stage requires a Rank 5 General's promotion.
how strong can it be?
I can't really see it.. can't the shield be more visible?
Actually, It's very important that it NOT become too visible. The texture is additive, so every time you add another shield in the same area it becomes more opaque. If you have several (especially the base shields) the shield very quickly becomes very think and increasingly difficult to see through. To mitigate this a single shield is as thin a texture as possible while still being visible. Also, the skin is animated, so it is pretty easy to spot in-game.
As for toughness, penetrating the shield is the same as Super Weapon's shield generator. It's pretty hard to pierce from the front, but it's not invincible, and if you damage the tank enough the shield will drop all together. ECM is especially effective vs it because the beam pierces the shield and shuts it down.
Does it catch all projectile types, or only missiles and shells?
missiles and shells.
soudns nice! so, if attacked from the rear/side, it does damage the tank? how about like some scud misile that lands vertically?, what if you just place 4 tanks facing each direction :p ?
Side and rear do normal damage.
Vertical is hit/miss, it depends on the angle of decent. The top edge of the shield extends right over the very center of the tank, but expands out in an arc from there. The widest shield has very good odds of stopping a missile from above, but they are hardly immune.
You can try and place them in a circle, and they'd be pretty tough like that, but they'd be stationary. why not just build a shield generator base defense and park them under that?
how tough is the tank under the shield?
Around the health of a an Emperor tank. That may sound high, but keep in mind it's not available until Tech2 and costs more than three times as much.
The cost is so high because of the many tech upgrades the tank can receive and it's high damage output.