lol im just reading this and how your all laughing at the redeemer... BUT, a good plan for the redeemer is to put two black hand in/ or 1black hand and an engineer, then stealth it. then run through the enemy base, its got more armour than a flame tank or a purifier, so it would decimate a base...right?

Pitbull or w/e to detect stealth, then bomb it with planes. It's a good tactic but not to be abused. And it costs a crapload of money.

Anyway, after about 5 pages of discussion it comes down to this:
EA screwed up C&C, Bring back Westwood! (Or at least Petroglyph, as most of them went there). That's my opinion at least. As they never released as many balance patches (I don't think they did anyway). I think the mammoth has lost its charm (at least it's role), as Nod never used to have a single unit as powerful as them, now it has competition from two other similar heavy units.

If they would only release the Mod SDK for Kane's Wrath so we can undo some of those 'balance' changes.

Anyway, the Avatar was just fine at first. It had a good role as a support unit, and it worked perfecly in that regard, but for one reason or another they felt it was necessary to make it the Nod Mammoth tank.

The Tripod is also ridiculously overpowered, mainly because of its EMP attack. It even kills epic units for crying out loud !

EA obviouly sucks at balancing. And they screwed up a few other things too. Tiberian Sun, and especially Firestorm had such beautiful Tiberium environments, and C&C3 only had the glaciers, which were cool, but hardly enough to make a red zone look 'alien' as they said in one of the GDI missions.

What happened to all of the Critters? And the Tiberium trees?

All in all, the game needs a complete overhaul for details and balancing and if given the chance, I'd do it.

The only thing this game really needs, is sharper counters. And no more bs overpowered defense.