Spectre Gunship
Circling heavy gunship raining sustained cannon fire.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 3
- Cost
- 1600 metal
- Build time
- 60 s
- Hit points
- 1500
- Armor
- Aircraft
- Speed
- 2.8 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 5
- Vision
- 10 tiles
- DPS
- 77.8
- Range
- 5.5 tiles
Production and tech
Weapons
Gatling cannon
- Damage
- 35
- Reload
- 0.45 s
- Range
- 5.5 tiles
- DPS
- 77.8
The Spectre Gunship is the Tier-3 aircraft: a heavy airframe that circles its target and rains sustained cannon fire with splash. It needs a Radar Station and an Advanced Airbase, and it costs as much as a small army.
How to use
One Spectre orbiting a fight tips it: it damages every armor class well and keeps firing while it circles. Use it to grind down an army or a base once the enemy's SAMs are gone; do not fly it into intact air defense, where its size makes it an easy target. Repair it between sorties.
Anecdotes
The real gunship is the AC-130, and the trick is the pylon turn: bank hard and circle one point so every gun down the left side stays on it. Its ancestor was an armed transport the crews called Puff the Magic Dragon.