Anti air strider

Hi, Crow is called flying fortress, in my opinion he is too small.

I have rough idea about a unit for strider hub. It would be flying carrier with one cool addon - plane capturing.

My idea is:
- Giant ship with shield and a LOT HP
- Price about 20 000,-
- No dirrect damage weapons
- Repair pads
- Drones
- Anti air EMP
- Newton manipulate beam

Capturing: EMP will stun planes around, once plane is stunned, its moved on repair pad where is circuit to reprogramme, ship leaves pad as yours.

Draft:

Blue parts - Drone repair pad
Orange parts - EMP
Aqua part - Newton manipulation beam
Green part - New drone cage
Pink part - Circuit for reprogramming planes

Little inspiration: http://z7.invisionfree.com/United_Dominion/index.php?showtopic=24

Do you like it? If not, how do you imagine anti air strider?

I would like to have some cool strider. Newtons on air could be fun they could pickup units and do somthing with them.

Also model for airfortress with drones was once requested.

In general if you create the model and script some silly superunit can be added

The krow is already too expensive for an air unit, frankly. And it's design is already too crowded with its short ranged AoE burst and ranged accurate skirm lasers, it doesn't need to be crowded with a bunch of other silly weapons.

It needs to be A. Designed with a weakness and a strength rather than a clusterfuck of random powers and B. Vulnerable to ground weapons.

The krow right now moves as fast as a bandit and counters raiders and mechs with the same ease, so fucktons of AA are the only counter. It has identically the same role-confusion as sumo for identical reasons (activable short ranged AoE burst added to an accurate RoF skirm).

if it flys and it and captures enemy planes how the hell do you counter it?

A better idea:

A mix of plane and gunship (A gunship which has a warp drive or teleporter for about chainsaw range).
--OR--
Tac-Nukes, because Krow's original balancing intention was to kill the energy supply for Anni DDM with limited support abilities.

However, it should deal a lot of alpha damage to a few well defended targets and not kill a whole enemy base.
* It should be a bit like Archer - when the unit's energy reserves are depleted, the shield recharge stops and the weapons work not longer at full efficiency.
* Although the energy reserves could recover while it's idle.

If you spend 5000m into a unit, it shouldn't be too vulnerable to < 1000m in ANY units.

I like the idea with a shield, because most of the time you are repairing it.
* If the shield has more than 3600 hp, you can't recharge the rest with your Aegis/Aspis spam.
* But >3600 works a bit like reload-time (unless you want to send a damaged unit into battle)

Idk if you like it if it discharges on your emty base shields, but on the opposite hand, shielding your base sounds fortress-like.

It would be fun. As long as it can only simultaneously handle/capture as many planes as it as repair pads... and I hope repair pads will be available for friend planes.
For lulz-factor (I mean, is this really serious?)... it should act like puppies, sucking wrecks to multiply itself. Yes, you will probably never manage to get it to reproduce itself, so you'll want to avoid wreck-fields to not anger your teammates who know how to reclaim, instead of wasting precious metal.
How do I imagine an antiair strider? It would look like a scorpion with a giant tennis racket tail that just smash enemy planes.

I had dreamed up a flying carrier a while back which would also have the ufo-like antigrav similar to current jugglenaut and (really old) krow. I even started to model/code it! Unfortunately Real Life sucks and I haven't done much with it.

Giving it shields+emp+newton+drones all at once seems a bit meh. Why does it need emp and shields? It already has tons of HP - shields don't do anything special. Emp is useless when your throwing units around with newton. Drones are boring as you can't control them, I'd rather just give it some repair pads (internal ones that planes are movectrl'd into/out of ftw!) for existing air, and perhaps some ground transport (teleport even?)

edit: actually, thinking about it, nix the high hp and have most of its resilience in shields -- which would protect hovering planes and have it vulnerable to any fighter/bombers that get inside shield.