New member wanting opponents and howto

[Kelen]

Welcome to the club.

Reporting Games
Once the game has finished 1 player, normally the vitcor, (or agreed between the players if a draw), reports the game.

Scroll to the top of the page and you'll see under G1 - Admin, 2nd one down a button entitled, 'Report Game'. Upon selecting that you'll be asked a series of questions regarding which ladder it is for, game size , outcome and who played. All very straight forward and painless.

I'm sure you'll win loads so you'll get used to this very quickly! ;)


Conscript Tanks
Yes as you quite rightly summised, conscript units do have reduced accuracy and spotting ability, and a increased command delay and reload times.

How much a difference varies; (I've had tanks acheive first hit kills, {ok they were 'green' rather than 'conscript' but it illustrates my point}, and vet miss with their first 4 shots!), so it really is a case of buy a few, see how they get on, and if you think their cheapness out weighs the other issues then hey!

You'll get some people who will tell you never to buy anything below Vet, but it depends on what, and how you plan to use them for. Logic will tell you that in a straight fight Vet will walk all over Conscript units, but if you are going to use them en-masse, place them in ambush, or just use them to lob HE around then personally I don't see why you need Vets. Personal choice and playing style.

Also, with the random experience thing in CMAK, if you buy conscripts you may be lucky and get them uprated to 'green'! (Whoohooo!!!), whereas if you buy Vets you may be unlucky and get them downgraded to only Regular, (shocking!!)

As i've said, give 'em a go and see how they get on.

Good luck and hopefully we see you climbing your way up the leader boards soon.