28-12-2003 09:26									#1
	Flak defend against ground units? Increase the size of your Attachments

I find it surprising that my flak cannons are defending against ground units, and actually doing a bit O' damage against the invaders.

I wonder, can they also attack ground units?

	28-12-2003 11:19									#2
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yes. but their attack is a 1 (while their defense is a 6)

	28-12-2003 11:35									#3
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flak are excellent defenders against ground units in real life - good against tanks and infantry. WW2 examples: a 20mm flak-vierling will rip any infantry in half (see Saving Private Ryan - you'll see a sequence). While a 88 AA gun was extensively used in anti tank roles.

	28-12-2003 11:39									#4
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yeah, theres a wicked scene in saving private ryan where the krauts turn a flak horizontally on some american infantry and rip some arms off.

	29-12-2003 02:19									#5
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yup, the infamous german 88mm anti-tank canon was actually designed as a high-calibre flak canon

	29-12-2003 03:18									#6
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AAA is still used quite often in the Third World as a surface to surface weapon. Apparently flak kicks an AK47's arse.

	29-12-2003 03:26									#7
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Some of the AA are 40mm machine guns, so if they can be lowered to a reasonable plane, they will be nasty.

	29-12-2003 03:29									#8
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I gave my flak a bombardment of 3.0.1 some time ago. Of course, Mobile SAM does NOT get any bombardment.

	29-12-2003 06:53									#9
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I'm just surprised that the devs did this. Its really a good call IMO.

Defense of 6 you say? Nice.