Vindicator able to execute its own cargo?

Feature.

Nah this is an engine thing.

The transported unit can take damage I think, most notably from the vindicator itself. I hadn't seen this previously so presumed it might be something to do with the new spherical range business.

Also, as I was messing around when I saw this, newtons + transports do all sorts of strange things. The transported unit seemed to store up the impulse and release it on unload.

As things can shoot at the transported unit, getting newtons to fire at it was trivial.

Did more testing:
-it works with Valkyrie same as with Vindicator
-it works on your own units too

1. Give your newtons an attack order on your unit (preferably the unit is out of newtons range so they don't start shooting yet).
2. Pick up the unit with air transport.
3. Fly over your newtons so they can shoot the transported unit.
4. Unload the unit elsewhere.
5. Watch it flying into orbit!
(or more likely immediately exploding after colliding with tranport or ground)

Unit needs to be UNLOADED from the transport for the sudden mipulse effect. If you kill the transport instead the unit will fall to ground normally without anything strange.

dont fix it yet ! I WANT TO ABUSE THAT!

will do some experiemnts with skuttles/roaches on the weekend. see what i can get out of this abuse :DDD

I just abused it ingame:
1. You just need 1 newton to launch anything. I launched a sumo across the whole map easily.
2. It seems to be much more precise than conventional newton ramp.
I was able to drop sumo in the middle of enemy base with well timed jump.

Yes it saves the direction of impulse and you can control the direction by positioning the transport relative to the newton.

It needs very little terraform - you only need to make a small tower to unload the unit on top. If you unload it on flat the unit frequently collides with the ground and/or transport and receives damage or even dies.

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/63999
Demonstration of the Jack/Sumo launcher.

I still think the tactic is not OP. If you don't jump at the right time the unit will fly of the map and die. Also it takes long time for the Jack/Sumo to land on ground and enemy sees the landing unit in advance and can prepare stuff to kill it easily.

Glad everyone's having a laugh.

I use these strats a lot against my friends, we tend to piss about. I've pretty much got unit cannons down to a science. You know you can do this without a transport anyway? The jumpjet function also allows you to store impulse. IMO the most useful method is actually nanoframes. Have a caretaker near your cannon, reclaim 5% of the unit, set newton to firing, repair unit. PING! This also allows you to queue any orders for in-flight use neatly. (aerial attacks, or jump commands)

Please don't remove this stuff though, it's far too much fun!