#Give Tempest Anti-Aircraft Capabilities

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idle vapor
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We have planes now. Most attacks have AA variations including the regular Gunner, the TF2 Heavy, the NORMAL Heavy Gunner, and the machine gun attack on tanks.

Even the Hornet has anti-air missile variation!

Despite being designed for AA combat, the Tempest CANNOT target aircraft.

This thing desperately needs a buff somehow. At the level it's unlocked at [level 31], firing 16-19 (x4) damage is pitiful ESPECIALLY considering most formations here have armor or strong, tanky frontline units.

A Rank 1 Basilisk outshines a Rank 6 Tempest, and later promo units with minigun like attacks [as ADDITIONAL attacks, not their sole attack] like the NT-1 Mechanical Tank or Armored SUV straight up make this thing obsolete in any role.

Proposal; because the Tempest was original designed with AA capabilities in mind, introduce an AA-type attack which is powerful enough to stand on its own and give the Tempest a unique dual-purpose role in the battlefield.

Thus, this unit can serve as a late-game buffed Anti-Aircraft Turret type unit that has the armor and HP to tank incoming attacks

Original Quote -
"Slow and heavily armored, the Tempest was originally designed as a mobile anti-aircraft battery. But Raiders don’t use many aircraft, and the Tempest’s four massive machine-gun barrels can be aimed at ground targets just as effectively. When you need to lay down a ridiculous quantity of lead, the Tempest should be your go-to vehicle."
— 1.2 Patch Notes

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The wiki page is painful to read

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feral bone
idle vapor
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i'll be honest i wrote half of the feverdream stuff that came up on the mini-tank's calibers and cupola trivia stuff and that's stuck around all these years

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... i dont think anyone was really fact checking things here lol

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but that last bullet point

feral bone
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The "Heavier tank" has a 60mm cannon.

Imagine.

idle vapor
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Despite being mentioned as an anti-aircraft battery in the patch notes, ironically, in the game itself it cannot target air units.

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yeah that hurts

broken bear
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It more so looks like some form of quad .50 mounting

vernal notch
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Tempest is going to be the first unit that has insane buffs to it

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just watch and see

pulsar briar
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First promo unit: Legendary Tempest

pulsar elm
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Tempest should absolutely have anti-air capabilities and shread planes. Thing does really look like german wirbelwind

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Using anti air on a raider infantry? Empire out there commiting war crimes

broken bear
idle vapor
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rn it just lightly throws pepper flakes in the general direction of the enemy

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would def be nice to see it get a damage/utility buff

granite junco
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a midgame unit that is completely outshown by some early game units like tf2 heavy feels sad indeed

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damage buff would do a lot for it