I've been playing C&C games for along time now, and the most interesting thing I've found, is how your gameplay adapts to a new release, and even more interesting, is how you play those "older" games after a bunch of new ones came out.

Let me tell you a story first before I make my suggestion. I've played the campaigns on Dawn for years now, maybe once a year, or I skip a year. Playing as Nod is very easy with their Stealth tanks. Not many units could detect them, and you'd have to get very close to a defense to be revealed. Fast forward nearly a decade, Tiberium Wars comes out. The amount of units that could detect stealthed objects was insane, it frustrated me at first. It almost seemed that EVERYTHING could detect Stealth objects. I then did some comparisons between the two games and realized that might have been the goal all along. I now think that C&C 3 has a good balance, and I think it plays well. You could argue that Dawn did not have a good balance. I made a map last year for this mod (never released, need to tweak), I had my CY walled off, and ALL my units camping my lone entrance, even Infantry which usually detect Stanks A LOT better then tanks. About five minutes into the map, Nod stanks somehow got into my base, and OWNED my CY with thier arcing missles. I was puzzled, I made sure to debugg the terrain on my map to see I made an error somewhere, I didn't. I then realized the stealth ability and the lack of units to detect it well, rolled over my base. Now when I play, my first defense is block my base with walls, not towers.

How are other vehicles going to react to Stanks? How are Infantry? Is this something that has been considered? I guess to stay true and as close to dawn as possible, it may be better to leave as is. Maybe in the enhanced mode, this could be looked at.

Thoughts?