Raven Buff

I think air is in a difficult spot right now, as air is already extremely easy to counter. In playing the large team battles, a single strategy is making it even worse.

People put Faraday and shields in combination to force bombers to dive into the range of Faraday, which AoE stun locks the raven making hitting valuable targets like Anti-Nuke, Nuke, Porc Nests, Singus, etc. nearly impossible.

Can the raven get a paralyze resistance to counter this

As far as I'm concerned, that's just good tactics. Why shouldn't a player with a brain cell be able to economically counter brute force?

If air is already so easily countered as you claim, why would anyone feel the need for shield/Faraday traps?

The bomber shouldn't always get through.

You can also modify Raven behaviour so they don't dive. Yes, you then have to brute force the shield, but if the target is high value enough, perhaps burning even more Ravens is worth it?

Wesley Likhos are even weaker in this case. Since You can make 6 ravens per likho, that is 5 more that can absorb AA. A single Likho or even 5 would be badly beaten up on route, and would then be very susceptible to paralyze attacks. That and Likhos need to be microed though all the shields to get to the target.

the_green_squig because for 1000 metal you can ensure that a certain building will go down only for an extreme trade of 20 ravens or more. 1 Faraday, 1 Aegeis, and 1 razor can kill up to 10 ravens alone. You can claim that you can brute force this, except the battle for air supremacy has to be so far in your favor that the enemy has nothing in the sky before you can even think of making enough ravens to pull of a play this big. It simply is too good.

i make a shorter post

raised faraday is godly aa

quote: 1 Faraday, 1 Aegeis, and 1 razor can kill up to 10 ravens alone.

I find this highly doubtful, but also this is ~1000 cost in defense beating ~3000 cost in offense.

This actually reads like a counter compared to the usual joke of "you need triple cost in AA to defeat bombers locally".

This just sounds like a good mixed-defense strategy. The shield can be countered by getting artillery in range, so it won't work near the front line. The Faraday can be countered by spreading out, so you'll need something additional to discourage such spreading.

Also: