Missile Battery

[Mind]

Hey! So... I just think that Missile Battery should do a high damage than now. Like, a lot of costs and it barelly help. Just a balancing update

[cswiger]

They're pretty solid against land units, especially piled up in combat.

But I'd agree they are too weak against air units like ornithopters.

[William Shakeshack]

I think they are good at providing a deterrent and mostly supplement to actual defenses. I think they're alright.

[Mind]

Originally posted by cswiger:

They're pretty solid against land units, especially piled up in combat.

But I'd agree they are too weak against air units like ornithopters.

Yes, that's im saying. Thanks for understanding

[FDR'sThinkTank]

I would be more than pleased with the Missile Battery if it either debuffed the movement of enemy aircraft... or debuffed the DPS of enemy aircraft.

I feel like having it pluck aircraft out of the sky with one hit kills would be too effective. Similarly, increasing it's rate of fire to achieve a similar effect would be brutal.

Then again, I suppose most attack aircraft don't come in unless the appropriate measures have been taken to protect them anyway.

[Pessimus Prime]

I also think missiles generally - those from ships too - are a little bit weak in the game. And the land-based batteries occupy a valuable slot and cost a lot to maintain. Then the effect should be at least a little bit stronger although you can upgrade it (much) later a bit through the green research. And it takes not very long to destroy a battery with more than a small bunch of soldiers...

[DasaKamov]

Missile batteries are more early-warning systems to alert you of an impending attack, and they're decent support units since their range is so long.

I disagree that they should be made stronger; doing so would encourage players to turtle-up and play passively, which is not what Dune is about.

[Slappy White]

I think they are pretty useful, I frequently build them and i find them to be worth it. Just don't put them everywhere if you don't need to. Battery plus some militia can make some decent basic defense. I find that the computer controlled factions do not build them much and that makes it easy to conquer them