ideas for balance - perhaps a really good idea for balance.

You need to have the anihaltor before the assembly for substrate. This is to stop the spam fest in maps like Knife fight where they just run hermes down.

I got a great idea, make the substrate metal extractors a little stronger, and keep the original air cleanser (1) air cleanser, same strength as oroginal build

The extractors should be able to handle 1 fly by, this way substrate could defend with the 1 air cleanser, and take out the planes.

2 phc planes is not enough then to bother continuing.

But be mindful if the phc player upgrades the 1st weapon damage

I think this might work.

And, you can have engineers attack with say, a lighting bolt, and take out 1/2 the health of a hermes.

This way substrate have some protection, but not enough to literally kill hermes with 1 strike.

you got to test it.

Try not to force the same build is the key.