Gravtanks

[d=me]

Does gravtanks make rovers obsolete?

[Commy]

Is a gravtank a hovertank or a graveship? Just wondering. If it's a hovertank, yes and no. They are faster, and therefore better than speeders, but they are also very costly. If a gravship, again, yes and no, because gravships are more expensive, but still pretty cheap and go much farther, but unfortunately they get a 50% penalty on ground attacks, where hovertanks get plus 25% in the field.

[Method]

gravships have a 50% penalty to ground attacks? are you sure about that one? In any event, they're fun, but come in far too late to be useful, as do hovertanks. It's rare for me to use either one.

[Sikander]

Grav ships only get the penalty if they are interceptors iirc.

[Illuminatus]

d=me, what have you thought by gravtanks

[Haon]

I think Grav ships are fun! If you are a very tech-heavy faction, to ability to have rapid response hard hitting gravships is just to tempting, they can also capture cities, which works great if you dont midn using nerve gas attacks to weaken a city before destroying or taking it all in one turn.

[Jamski]

They are inferior to choppers because they can only attack once per turn.

But I think the OP referred to gravtanks, meaning hovertanks. In which case, once you have the tech for hovertanks, they are better than rovers, yes. How is an extra tile moved each turn NOT good?

-Jam

[d=me]

I've never seen any gravships what are they? I personally think that gravtanks make rovers obsolete with it's full scale abilities which means that it has no obivous weaknesses.

[:) Smiley]

They are essentially Domain 3 units- can move over land and water, but don't have to refuel.

[Commy]

Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but what's the difference between a bomber and an interceptor in Centauri. Because sometimes my airships get ground attack penalties, but sometimes they don't, and I really want to know why.

[Lefty Scaevola]

If you have an air platrom with SAM capability it is an intercepter, full against airtargets; 1/2 against ground/naval; fights with weapon rather than armor if attacked while in the air; can intercept from base.

bomber/penetrator etc is air platfrom without SAM: full against ground/naval; if attacked in air defends with armor.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Commy
Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but what's the difference between a bomber and an interceptor in Centauri. Because sometimes my airships get ground attack penalties, but sometimes they don't, and I really want to know why.

Inteceptor has Air Superiority (called SAM for some reason) which means they can attack other aircraft. They get a penalty attacking ground units.
Bombers do not have Air Superiority, and hence can not attack other aircraft. They bomb ground units (and aircraft that have landed inside bases) with full strength.

[Method]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns (called SAM for some reason)

that's because it's the same equiptment that allows ground or sea units to to attack aircraft.

[Commy]

Okay thanks guys about the bombers and interceptor things. THat is very very helpful. I just started not using just probe teams and decided I would start using air units. Very helpful, thanks.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Method

that's because it's the same equiptment that allows ground or sea units to to attack aircraft.

It should be called AAM, I mean are the incerceptors on ground when they engage enemy craft?