Originally Posted by SKYeXile
Yea homing rockets can suck a fat one. I think the lighting atleast should be better at AA than a MAX since its a vehicle and can only be used outside, the max can hide inside and get into really germy spots like at the top of a base or tower a lighting has to stick to the ground and be a bigger target.
also the lighting when in AA mode should have far less HP than if its setup as an AI or AV tank.
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You forget a couple of things:
1. Why homing missiles? Because AA units that cannot change altitude or chase after you will easily lose line of sight. THUS to fight you, they need to either be able to kill you as long as they have line of sight (which is almost instantly), or they have to have a feature that allows them to go beyond line of sight. ie. lock on and forget.
You ignore also that this time, aircraft have counter measures.
Air to air can re-establish line of sight much easier than other units and should therefore... egads... be WEAKER than ground based AA when fighting AA. They should simply be stronger in aircraft damage than normal aircraft, because anything is an equal counter to itself anyway. So yes, when flying a normal aircraft, you'd lose to an AA aircraft, which itself should lose to AA more easily.
2. A Lightning is not stationary, has more armour, is very mobile, depending on rotation speed might be more easy to get on target and is a larger target than an AA MAX. It does have the benefit of having multiple weapon systems. Hence it should be less powerful than an AA MAX. Agreed. But, the main question is, should it be more or less powerful than the MBT gunner AA? And is this a second, dedicated AA gunner, a gunner with multi-weapon systems or a driver/gunner or a third crew member?
You should also consider Galaxy (Gunship) AA, which will be in game, possibly with flak. That should worry you more than an AA MAX.
Also, an AA unit cannot defend itself from other threats already because its firepower is worse and damage taken is not comparable to damage dealt. So even with equal hitpoints to a similar unit of the same class but with a different role, it would already lose. Why then would you then also make its endurance worse? If anything, it would have to be compensated by getting more hitpoints. It sounds to me you just want AA nerfed so you can kill them easily as aircraft, which is the exact opposite of what should be happening: they are called ANTI-AIR. You know, anti-you.
An AA MAX does not benefit from moving inside at all: inside you cannot fire at aircraft and an AA MAX should therefore be balanced for outside purposes. In fact, it faces more threats than anything else outside because it's completely inept against anything else and in order to fight of aircraft, it would have to be able to get outside first to be useful, even in camped situations. Unlike other MAXes, an AA MAX has to get out in the open, especially if it requires line of sight (for example, to obtain visual lock).
In conclusion, the worst options of all AA should be the A2A variant, otherwise it will hurt aircraft combat far more than vehicles and MAXes would as it would dominate the skies. Not just between fighters, but especially against multicrew units like Liberators.
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