Ranked game on sentry point. I try to take the third starting point with my commander. I scout his base early and notice he's going for a t1 gunship raid. I decide to let 2 out of 6 (!) factories produce _only_ sky slammers (remember, the excellent cybran homing T1 AA). The rush comes as expected, the gunships run into my commander accompanied by about 10 sky slammers. But what a surprise, t1 gunships simply do not die against AA.
If you watch closely, you see that the AA mostly hits the flares, not the transport that carries them. the result is a gunship with almost 400 HP! (against like 15 HP for a bomber). I thought this bug had already been fixed
The only counter to this strategy is probably to have 10 interceptors ready as soon as his raid comes. bah.
Yeah this is a bug... a patch change before stated, very specifically, that transport hitboxes will be expanded to encompass all the units the transport carries... this is a bug, report it
Radio tried that rush on me with 3 T1 gunships @ open palms, pretty much where gollum died on. I managed to survive with my acu having 50% hp left. i had about 3 factories spamming T1 aa's and made 1-2 AA towers with my acu. It seems that either aeons t1 aa's or t1 aa towers pretty much own those transports. Gotta watch the replay to see what exactly got them down fast, the tower or mobile aa's.
Ranked game on sentry point. I try to take the third starting point with my commander. I scout his base early and notice he's going for a t1 gunship raid. I decide to let 2 out of 6 (!) factories produce _only_ sky slammers (remember, the excellent cybran homing T1 AA). The rush comes as expected, the gunships run into my commander accompanied by about 10 sky slammers. But what a surprise, t1 gunships simply do not die against AA.
If you watch closely, you see that the AA mostly hits the flares, not the transport that carries them. the result is a gunship with almost 400 HP! (against like 15 HP for a bomber). I thought this bug had already been fixed
The only counter to this strategy is probably to have 10 interceptors ready as soon as his raid comes. bah.
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