[Suggestion] - New Aircraft Unit for vs Ground

There has been issues with ground units always getting a strong upperhand against air, making aircrafts very unreliable form of frontline defense/offense.

Using the Reef's mechanics, have a 'Drop Ship' land and deploy a few small ground units (one at a time every few seconds) similar to glaives that can operate up to about 300 range from the aircraft. While landed, the Plane cloaks.

If the aircraft takes off, the units disappear.

This accomplishes the Plane Factories inability to be a defensive line.

Valkyries take 4-5 times longer to kill a unit cause of the flyby's. While they're almost immune to most forms of ground damage. 5 Raider Vehicles will defeat an airbase. That is the playing field I feel needs to be helped.

Remembering recent CrakKCRacKKrAkK's thread it makes sense for a faction to eventually develop an AAAA (anti anti-aircraft aircraft). :D

Ok, sorry.

Well, that's what Loh suggested. It lands and deploys mobile units which can dispatch any AA but easily fall to any non-AA unit. Razor's kiss will still be a problem since it won't unzip.

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We don't play PW yet. Too nubs. :)

I want a exploding scuttle plane:D

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Yeah, and give it yellow color and eggplant shape. And then rename it to Protoss Carrier. :P

Perhaps a Flying Unit that arrives on a location, and morphs into a unit for ground assault. But highly subjectable to Low level AA when in he flying stage.

Cannot be morphed back into an air unit.

Vakyrie can carry only one unit. And there are no APCs. You can't airdrop a squad of raiders.

I was thinking an artillery gunship with shootable ground-bound projectiles would be neat. Basically imagine a slow non-strafing gunship that drops zero-cost amphibious crawling bombs... the bombs aren't player controlled, they just march to the target. Give it 1200 range. So it's an artillery unit that can fire from anywhere, but can be nullified with a single LLT or MT or Slasher.

The only problem is that the crawlers would follow the fickle spider pathing instead of going along a straight-line. Some kind of weird movectrl'd all-terrain hover thing might work better.

actualy gunshit arty seems resonable...