Originally Posted by
Zauper
Compare orc with human:
orc - 7/1 elite, +30% gains, free draft (econ bonus), +25% kills; -20% sci eff
human - 7.2/3 elite, 5 off offspec [note: this factors for their ome bonus], .33 bpa/tick free (econ bonus), fok, QF, -20% gains.
Now look at a human trading hits with an orc.
Let's say a 14% base gain hit, both provs on 3k acres.
Orc gains 546a before GS.
Human gains 336a before GS.
Essentially, because of the gains difference, you're looking at orcs gaining 62.5% more per hit than humans. Whether that's in a chain or not, that's a massive difference. And the offense the two have is functionally the same if they're all elite. Human would have slightly more. Human can turtle better, but you're not turtling if you're running suicide offense.
Neither has great econ in war. Human would be better defensively because of it's sci bonus, but orc can train up faster because free draft is fantastic for the emer/pat drafting in pump.