Unit Pricing

[ArtNJ]

Runners are ok as is. People that over use them tend to lose to experienced players. Instead of trading runners, you pop out a soldier and take one, or a two hp runner as Harti mentioned, or move up your sniper and take on. Since you can only spawn 1 or 2 units a turn, losing a unit when you cant counter is the type of event that seems minor at the time, but that, nonetheless, matters.

Or just ingore the runner after gradually moving other units into position, and doing something more significant.

Runners seem OP because the possibility of a runner rush means that certain slow-cook strategies are losers. New players that dont yet realize, die painful deaths to the little guys. While it might be nice to have a mode lending itself to longer games, the fact that you can play and finish a lot of games in one day is a plus in my book.