It's not just me. Most of my friends (lanning friends) also agree that Scrin appears to be the most useless team in the game. They dont have one unit worth purchasing, besides the overly expensive and weak Tri-Pod, and the Planetary Assault carrier is useless, costing huge ammounts and their attack ships can be shot down by one AA before they have a chance to even scratch a unit, and a few AA tanks/turrets can reduce them to dust in no time. There other units are pretty much scrap metal if you go head-on with GDI. Overall it seems the GDI is the only team worth playing, though the NOD had some pretty good stuff, especialy going against the Scrin. When I play a very good player at a LAN, we usualy make him go as Scrin, it acts as a handicap (Instead of the degrading handicap feature). Im surprised at how many of you say the Scrin can probably beat the GDI? Seems unlikely to me, without a unit even as strong as the pitbull. Also graphicaly wise the Scrin are annoying as hell, all their thousands of special effects make it confusing and all the units look so alike its difficult to multi-manage. Oh, and the mothership isn't worth even considering to purchase. Mine was shot down by 4 rocket troopers before I even had a chance to attack them.

Im surprised how many of you here say how awesome the Scrin are, there must be some evil catch to them. So far, I haven't discovered one reason yet to play as Scrin.

Opinions please.

EDIT: I usualy beat AI when playing verse Scrid, and never Vica Versa.

Edited by user Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:03:08 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

It's just you I think.


Scrin is the best army. Period.
GDI and Nod suck.

Even the balancing patches usually only nerf Scrin because it's overpowered.

Its not just you, as Incia said himself, all the top players use NOD..... Its a reason why..... A few top players also use GDI but almost noone use scrin...
overall they just dont have good enough units, especially early game...

Watch my replays, you can first practis versus Hard AI... then try them online.

I like the Scrin's army the most (indeed, I'm usually them when I play online), but I think Stormriders are stopped too easily by emplaced enti-aircraft. The reason is this. Against an AA gun or Plasma Battery, the AA's range usually keeps the Stormrider in range at all times, so while the Stormrider is swooping, lots of damage is being dealt, which means that unless there's a large pack of Stormriders, the AA will knock out the fleet before too much damage can be done. Against mobile AA, with the exception of the missile based Pitbulls the Stormrider usually gets out of range during these swoops, making it much more effective.

If so, why do almost every good player use NoD??

Scorpion spam, and so what??

You can spam every unit if you want to, the reason why people spam scorpions instead of devourers or predators is that you get more compared to the money you spend, ergo NOD`s units are better than scrins, per $ spent...

I dont mean that every NoD unit is better than scrins units, but scrin has nothing as effective as the scorpions.....

early game the scrin might indeed be a little bit less effective, though their storm riders could fight against a scorpion rush and those scorpions can't shoot back. in late game the tripod with a shield upgrade would no doubt be more effective though. emp effect if enemy units come to close and it's three beam weapons make short work of most scorpions.

GL HF after the patch.