Gunshits

For some reason i believe we need more posts about the uselessness of gunships
why would anyone make gunships instead of planes?
In big maps gunships are too slow and planes dominate, while in small maps aa cover the whole map easily. Also planes pwn the whole factory, so why would anyone make gunships? Only good units are vindicator and bd

Give the whole factory more speed so they can get out of aa range and give em a decent aa pls

Some will say about sending support aa/planes, but what is the point of gunships if they can't do anything properly by themselves?

quote: Maybe the problem's not gunships, but airplanes?

Probably, but i guess balancing planes would be harder

I think now they are close to the real world Helicopter, not as fast as airplanes and not well armored. But like an Apache, they (have) (should) plenty of firepower.
I think the gunships leak of firepower and a bit of range now, to be good again.

quote: Gunships are still very good defenders!

Then why would anyone plop a fac that is only good at defending?

If someone would write a proper guide on how to use gunships it would be good, then it could go on the wiki.

Gunships are worse against AAs, that make them more raider-ish than airplanes, but AA defenses tend to have really big coverages, that makes air-raiders become useless quicklly in a game once the opponent start building AAs.