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MARCH-APRIL 2004

• Yes /w Grinder (95)
• Yes Bumping Grider (23)
• Yes Replacing Grinder (13)
• No! (82)

Some Fan Comments:

• LJVanArnam@hotmail.com: I think that all the stuf needs upgrading, becouse your stuff gets better, and and you get a challenge!!! So let Yuri come in with a repair bulding, make a challenge, and keep the Grinder too. Makes things a little more interesting!!! Lets go into battle, and destroy all that gets in our way. With more tech and more challenges!!!
• 3azy: No service 4 yuri. he cn nick a ifv and stick an engy in it, or (by luck) find a healing crate.
• Cyborg: well why repair a unit when the al yuri just puts it into a grinder(unless that could be fixed) well i really didnt know waht to put so i havent voted yet i mean he could do some repairing to units but eventually they will die in some way whether air or ground they all get killed in combat (unless your the winner) so i would have to say replace grinder or no RD. about 85% of people dont even use RD they just build them to rebuild an MCV. and thats all im going to say......[end transmission]
• sykoglen: i think he sould not get it because u can just kill the unit and billd it again.
• Natus: I think Grinder only, Repair depo isnt all that good really. I mean, sod it, its a maniac psychic guy, hes can control new units, why repair old?
• nickmaker: Yuri don't think to repiar things. becuase he born to be destroy!
• matt: i think a service depot would be good for yuri to repair. but the grinder is a way for yuri to get money if needed.
• Clazzy: I say you keep it. It gives Yuri something special, and of course, he doesn't believe in repairing stuff. All he wants to do it recycle it He's probably a member of Greenpeace, bless him. As well, if Yuri wanted to repair something he'd just simply mind-control an IFV and plonk an engineer in it. Or capture a service depot.
• flefilker: I put a Yuri Service Depot in my mod Tides of War. It's working out great for Yuri. I left the grinder in though. Yuri needs a source of income when capturing useless units. I just changed the Prerequisite for Yuri's MCV to Yuri's Service Depot instead of the grinder. Works wonders!
• ExtremeDumb: Yuri's Grinder is unique and if you have a Repair Depot with it it would make it would take some strategy away. Yuri depends on the cash from the Grinder and if he has units that are damaged, he can simply destroy it in the Grinder and build it again. The only exception and benefit to having a repair depot replace or add on to Yuri's side is the fact you've mind controlled something worth while, like an elite Apocalypse or Elite Battle Fortress and you want to keep it in peak condition for the just in case. Bumping the Grinder up in the technology tree is useless, because you would then need more cash to get access to the Grinder, and the Grinder is a fairly low level structure. All it does is crush up whatever goes into it. Lastly, the Grinder was a unique addition to Yuri's Revenge, since that the Allied Repair Depot can no longer sell vehicles.
• Gario: The basic idea of Yuri is use the enemy's forces rather than sustain his own - why would he bother repairing his tanks when he could sieze new ones for free? Also, it makes Yuri even more unique and different - if it was up to me I would remove the Soviet repair depot and give them a mobile repair vehicle, just so everyone hd a different method of repair. It would cause some balance problems though... Maybe all Yuri vehicles should auto-heal (EB4D Ordos style)? If you want to repair your vehicles, get a Machine Shop or just don't play as Yuri.
• mrruben5: Don't give him a repair depot, makeup something original! instead, givehim a vehicle that repairs slow, but for free.
• more soviet,more allied: I think yuri's true policies is to have an enourmous-overwhelming army even the controled ones.its because YURI,the person who can turn enemy into our side.in this case,service depot must exist.no one wants to battle with a little life bar.with these even weak tank,we can still dance with the BEST of 'em grinder purpose is a alternative ways to get cash.it also save us.for example,you mind control demolition truck and find out the truck is rigged.this can be saved by sending the truck into grinder rather by slowing engineer.so it DOESN'T matter bumping a grinder.
• TQ: I think the reason why this might have come up is that YR˛ is trying to bring some of the game concepts down to earth, and the idea of grinding units and people up for money is frankly whacked :p What if Yuri had a buildable Machine Shop type structure which worked quite a bit slower than the actual tech building?
• Fenring: Yuri is not about repairing his units. He has little or no regard for anything or anyone but himself. His Grinder also provides a source of extra income, much like the Ore Purifier or the Industrial Plant to a lesser extent. If you remove this ability, he's at a SEVERE and almost brutal disadvantage. The psychicness is Yuri's essence and getting from that is a GREAT and often times, NECESSARY enhancement.
• Dark Scorpion: I think that Yuri should be left with the Grinder and NOT be given a service depot. The classic Yuri weakness is that since he can't repair his units, they are harder to promote.