OpenRA

Hi, wondering what people's thoughts on this, as I am novice and started my first few games as Soviets and enjoyed there powerful tanks and Tesla, but I am being turned more for allies as you can pump out tanks a lot faster and do spam rushes with mechanics and medics making you virtually unstoppable on base rushes. I have come across some serious pro players who play allies and really do well, specially early game. The chronoshift also adds another dimension enabling ambush type moves.

Russia has 10% discount
Germany has 10% firepower

If there are any pro allied players what are your best tactics?

Thanks

Do we talk about OpenRA? There are no such bonuses for factions in OpenRA.

Just forget original RA , here many things are different.

If you want to see how good players play, check most recent games on these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@Blackeneds_Barracks/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@CovertFlobert

Or you can join "ORA Academy" at https://Academy.openra.net .

I don't think forgetting vanilla RA is a good idea. But it is true, the specifics differ quite a bit. RA in particular has had its balance polished over many years of competitions

bete wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 07, 2025 3:45 pm

Do we talk about OpenRA? There are no such bonuses for factions in OpenRA.

Just forget original RA , here many things are different.

If you want to see how good players play, check most recent games on these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@Blackeneds_Barracks/videos crazy flips 3d
https://www.youtube.com/@CovertFlobert

Or you can join "ORA Academy" at https://Academy.openra.net .

So in OpenRA, are all factions completely balanced with no inherent bonuses, or do some still have unique strategic advantages based on unit composition or economy?

Subfaction have unique units and bonuses, you can hover over the faction in skirmish menu to read them

Thatentry wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:16 am

bete wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 07, 2025 3:45 pm

Do we talk about OpenRA? There are no such bonuses for factions in OpenRA.

Just forget original RA , here many things are different.

If you want to see how good players play, check most recent games on these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@Blackeneds_Barracks/videos crazy flips 3d
https://www.youtube.com/@CovertFlobert

Or you can join "ORA Academy" at https://Academy.openra.net .

So in OpenRA, are all factions completely balanced with no inherent bonuses, or do some still have unique strategic advantages based on unit composition or economy?

I meant there are no "hidden" bonuses like speed+25% , hp+25%, etc.

Game is very balanced and very similar to play on tier 1. Both factions make 3:1 or 2:1 rifle:rocket infantry ratio and spam Medium/Heavy tanks. MTs and HTs are used in same way - to soak damage and crush infantry and provide vision to infantry which is main DPS army. MTs are a bit weaker, cheaper and faster...

Radar and tech center units have more differences... but too complicated to explain now.

The -broken- percentage bonuses the sides had in the original RA multiplayer are not present in OpenRA's mp.
as far i can understand this is by design and intended.

However should it be wished to re-incorporate them, that can be done rather easily in a modification.
for example, like it was done in this mod:
https://github.com/MlemandPurrs/ora-sov ... in-the-mod