Flak Track
Mobile flak cannon. Cheap insurance against aircraft.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 1
- Cost
- 170 metal
- Build time
- 12 s
- Hit points
- 280
- Armor
- Medium
- Speed
- 2.2 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 1
- Vision
- 9 tiles
- DPS
- 31.4
- Range
- 5.5 tiles
Production and tech
Counters
Weapons
Flak gun
- Damage
- 22
- Reload
- 0.70 s
- Range
- 5.5 tiles
- DPS
- 31.4
The Flak Track is a light tank chassis carrying a rapid-fire anti-air gun. It shoots only at aircraft, and it is the cheapest way to make a column safe from helicopters and drones.
How to use
Slot one or two into every army group as soon as you see an Airbase; they need no upgrade and keep pace with tanks. Keep them inside the formation, not in front, because they cannot defend themselves against ground units. Against a serious air force, upgrade to SAM Launchers, but Flak stays the better answer to swarms of cheap aircraft thanks to its fire rate.
Anecdotes
Every anti-aircraft gun ends up pointed at the ground eventually. Soviet crews in Afghanistan used the ZSU-23-4 Shilka to hose down hillsides until the other side named it shaitan-arba, the devil's chariot. The Flak Track's gunners have been told not to.