I was wondering if Air Units and Air Bases can be turned off as an option to the game.....i mean......Id really hate to have 50 AT-AT's waiting around to get into the action, and just be plain wiped out by Y Wings or something.....and i would hate to have to goto the trouble of making AA towers every 5 squares......i think it would be easier on those of us who want to do more ground battles if there was a "No Air" option...

in the campaign editor you can disable certain units
ect .air units but im not sure if you can in single player

THe trick is to be prepared. There is a great anti-air unit in the heavy weapons workshop. Take a couple of those with you.

The AoK engine was always about mixing units ... now with air units, that's more important than before.

you dont have to make AA towers every 5 squares stupid...just take some AA units w/ you

Originally posted by Maul403
you dont have to make AA towers every 5 squares stupid...just take some AA units w/ you

Yeah Stupid

When you make your AA units (either the troops or the heavy mechs), click on one of those and click GUARD in the menu that comes up for that unit, then click on the AT-AT and that AA will follow the AT-AT and take out any Aircrafts.

Use the same strategy and assign Troops to Guard the AA. There you go, a self-defending troop of units that compensate for the various weaknesses of individual units.
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Ok. lets say, i take 75 AT-AT's marching across the map, with 5 AT-AA's (or whatever they are) gurading them, and the enemy hammers those AT-AA's until there dead, that leaves my 75 ATAT;s helpless.......and i also dont like doubling towers, for instance, everywhere i have a regular turret, ill have ot put an AA turret behind itt to prevent it from being shot down.....granted i could march in with 50 AA troopers but they arent any good in battle while they just stand there and take useless hits for other units, thus dying and leaving army ready for bombardment.

That is why you don't build so many units that are easily countered by another. The key is to mix your units so no one unit can counter yours.

Or you could just tell the other person not to use air units and if he does then quit on him. Of course, that only works if you play someone who would rather play without the air units, like me. :D

Air units aren't really a problem for me, I just build a few Missile turrets and they take care of covering my base :)
BTW Maul403, no need to be calling him names. He was just stating his opinion, if you don't like it fine, but don't start calling him names :)

then take more AA units w/ u......
BTW i wasnt calling him stupid...just his comment :)

Come on!!! Air units are too cool to disable them. :naboo: :xwing:

ok so someone wants to play with out air units.......arrrggg my head hurts. in the big wide world u cant say to some punk whos about to beat ya up..."excuse me but can u not use ur fist?" it wouldnt work....... now loads of players are lookin forward to usin air units...im one of them. takin air units out would be like losin an arm to strike with.
why not just build sopme defenders and engae them and haras them b4 they haras u....and i agree with the other points. if uve play AOE and AOK u will know that if u took say 75 teutonic knights along with like 5 bowman ud get beaten by a range of units from the other guy..... balance em man......

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Ditto Kvan. There's no need for name-calling. The guy had a legit complaint.

its pretty simple. load your chickens with missle troopers, that way none of them get taken out til needed.

Originally posted by Jordus
Ok. lets say, i take 75 AT-AT's marching across the map, with 5 AT-AA's (or whatever they are) gurading them, and the enemy hammers those AT-AA's until there dead, that leaves my 75 ATAT;s helpless.......

all I can say is too bad...You were the one who let your at-aa get blasted sky high instead of protecting them...:cool:

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...................again i wasnt calling him stupid..just the comment
BTW guy who started this thread..u just need to change your strategy

Thats's something I already hated in AoK, those damn" no monks" games !!!
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You could use some air units to counter their air units since fighters can fight both ground and air they're great.



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All im really saying, is that it will take some adjustment for people who are veterans of AOK. I really like the Air feature, i think it adds a certain originality to the game, and im all for it....i just think that lets say, a HUGE gungan and Trader federation battle (like in the movies) wont be very good when 50 federation bombers are hovering over the gungans making mintz meat out of them....so, at times Air will seem very annoying, but at other times (like in space battles) it will seem very cool....i just htink there should be an option to disable them for certain games, and certain people who dont want to use them at the time.