Krow

And with nerfed flakkers there will be even more krows!

And simpe as it is I just suck with units which belongs to zk philosophy -> small and many lol.

as discussed before...

-krow is too powerfull/hit and run works with this thick armour at that speed.
--->>>give it "cooldown" paralyze of 10-15sec after dgunning? or 5sec paralyze and 50%speed penalty(like from slow beam)

-move to STRIDER HUB (no discussion if gunship lab needs anti heavy, krow is anti-all DEFINITIVELY, and therefore a clear thing for strider hub) and think of an alternative for gunshit hub (BD is anti heavy?)

ya but laser range < range of jethro/vandal/flak/archangel/...
and then its still too fast

Again, another heavy unit that is too versatile. It's lasers hit everything, and its d-gun weapon demolishes heavy units and swarns alike. It's lasers mean it is strong skirming at range, while its d-gun means it's strong getting close. It needs a role and a counter- Beyond just 'Spam equal value of AA at every point on the map'.

I'm not saying it should be easy to kill, I like it's hit and run nature, the fact you can repair it, the fact the gunship factory has something that isn't a glass cannon. But with such survivability, it needs to do its damage slowly over time with many successful attack runs and repair missions: Not a single trip flying over a mech or lvl4 comm, bombing it to crap, and instantly making cost.

If that was all it did, like a flying reusable skuttle, fine, but it also eats shield balls and raiders and skirms and massed assaults.

The rest of the dev team doesn't support me, so bug Google, Licho and KR. Personally I'd change its activable weapon to 3 downwards lasers (Starlight style, with enough AoE to cover the whole underside of the Krow) so that its DPS is more consistent, the problem right now is just the huge projectile spam (Like if you sat directly on top of the Barrel of a Tremor, you'd take every single shot).

the bombs are crazygood, but its the lasers that make the Krow so flexible.

Maybe give it 3 downward EMGs so it can't hit air?

The only reason why Krow is very powerful early on is the lack of additional requirements that have to be met. Most expensive units need assistance, either in the form of units (scouts, aa, riots) or in the form of buildings (radars, energy sources, grids). Need for unit support would make Krow unable to fulfill its expensive-high-mobility role, so that's a no go.

Now, a better way of making units less rushable and more mid-late-game than increasing their one-time cost is to add a steady cost, similar to that of cloaking units and Anni/DDM's grid requirement.

Here's some Neonstorming:

* A stockpiling dgun with a maximum stock of 1.
* Decreased HP:cost ratio so repairing drains more energy - energy is more expensive in early games.
* Energy cost to fly. Very very experimental.

I think cloning other games/tv and adding downward lasers would be boring.

Skasi, thats wrong.. its good because it is effective VS everything, and can perform both anti-heavy and anti-swarm

I know that its good against anything. Hence:

quote: Need for unit support would make Krow unable to fulfill its expensive-high-mobility role, so that's a no go.

That is why it needs a different sort of weaknesses.