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Re: Catapult vs Wheeled Shooter

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
A very good team, given enough iteration and development time, can make almost any design competitive.

However, I think it's pretty clear that catapults were the way to go this year, in retrospect, unless you really needed the packaging benefits of a wheeled shooter. Catapults could more easily shoot consistently and could more easily be built to shoot over a defender from the outer works.
A few things that wheeled shooters have over catapults:
-Ball protection
-Turrets
-Ability to be on an arm
-Familiar (2012)

Catapults definitely have consistency among other benefits, but I disagree that it's cut-and-dry catapults over wheels.
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