Air-Ground Combat is a lot better, but this happened to me the other day.

My Commander died practically instantly.
Admittedly, I had no Flak and little AA - I'd barely reached T2 - those are T1 Bombers.
I quite rightly got my butt kicked - I just wish the bombers had spread out more in formation and not all been able to attack at once, as this left no time to respond.

That or the Commander should be able to defend itself in a way analogous to Ground-Naval with the Uber-Cannon. Flak on Commanders?

I feel you, mang.
I just fought my first two 1v1 against actual people.
Both times I got rekt by Ke1sel, understandable, and I learned that having fighters or getting out mobile bot or vehicle AA super early is extremely important so the combat fabs don't get bombed, and harassment is the most important aspect of the early game.
The struggle is real.

I think the Uber cannon should fire at air.

But in this case, you messed up and didn't have fighters. It's your own fault on this one!

I agree though, Air is moving in a much better direction. It used to be way underpowered or way overpowered.

Neglect air at your own peril!

Haha

That, my friend, is why you don't go T2.

I see a pattern emerging (these aren't of me ).

lol, does the AI do it?

Also...

Y U NO USE ALPHA ENERGY PLANT

Alpha energy plant? My memory is fuzzy.
Also I can't get the mod manager working :l causes connection issues for me.

http://pa-mods.com/mod.php?mod=alphaenergy

I could try giving you the zip and instructions on manually installing it.

PAMM shouldn't be causing connection issues though. A broken mod, maybe. PAMM itself? Nope.

Worth a shot - let me check my PAMM out first... I don't think I have any mods installed.

So someone turned up with a sizable force of a unit you hadn't scouted or built anything to defend against and it beat you... and?

He enjoyed it.

No need to be so bloody sarcastic.

There's no need to change anything about bombers, for reasons stated above.

You just need to be prepared for it. I've lost/won quite a few games recently from this cheese strategy.

Peregrines would actually be quite viable here...

He linked his defeat of this force to a point about a need for the Commander to be able to respond to air, but his defeat had no bearing on the matter.

It wasn't sarcasm, I was pointing out the flaw in the argument.

There's no flaw in saying the Commander is more able to respond to Ground and Naval attacks than to Air, and that this is contributing to the re-emergence of mass bomber-runs on Commanders.

I said in my OP that I quite rightly got my butt kicked - I don't deny AA and Air-Air should be the go-to routes here if we want not to get bombed to buggery. I just see an imbalance between Air-Commander and Ground/Naval-Commander Combat.

I see what you mean

Not sure how to add the Uber Cannon for air since currently it's a ground click weapon not a unit click weapon.

They could just add a dedicated area of effect AA weapon on the left arm (right now both arms have big uber cannon holes on them, but only the right one fires) and make it have the same reload time as the UC and only fire when you click on an air target manually. This manual only mode would make sure the long reload doesn't screw you by the commander firing on a lone scout leading the bomber blob and wasting the AoE and would also mean surprise attack against the commander would be more effective since the flak won't fire until the player manually clicks the commander and starts clicking

Forcing a certain distance between planes so they don't fly straight through each other, meaning the attack takes more time as they can't all bomb at once would also help, especially since this would also make the AoE of the flak cannon only effect 4 or 5 bombers at once at most

I love how T2 bomber suck at sniping a Comm, they're actually better at killing multiple units whilst T1 is good against singular high healthed units, yay, sidegrades!

But... I've fired my Ubercannon at a Bomber swarm before... And it killed them...

Was I hallucinating?

Did you just call spamming a unit cheese?

Excuse me. Sniping an enemy comm is not a cheese strategy, It's desperation, usually, and honestly, if your enemy is leaving themselves that open, they deserve to be sniped by 50 or so T1 bombers.