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.