Idea: Anti missile guns/emplacements

Remember back in Sup Com how you could either deviate or destroy incoming missiles? I feel this would be a very good addition to the game to have a sort of structure that would do the same thing. The purpose would be to put an end to games being won simply by placing a catapult (long range missile launcher) outside someones base and slowly creeping forward with them until you have won. This would not affect the artillery guns and it would not be some OP device that could provide 100% protection from any number of missiles, if more missiles are being flung at you then you need more of these structures to counter.

Quick Summary
- Only destroys missile type projectiles
- Slow rate of fire so its still possible to be overwhelmed using multiple missile type units/structures
- Tech wise it would be constructed by T1 workers

Ideas/ Concerns?

Why not to make some gunships or bunch of robots or make your own catapult/holkins so enemy cannot built theirs in range. So far i like how you cannot do perfect turtle base unlike SCFA.

Yeah, that and the range of artillery means you can't shoot across the map.

sounds like an interesting idea. How would you go about implementing it? and sorting it out balance wise? Would it be like a Chaff type weapon that confuses a missile and makes it miss its target?

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I think something needs to be done about missiles. Otherwise it's just reskinned artillery.

Well it's missile artillery, dummy!

Maybe they could change the missiles to a rocket barrage type weapon. Rocket barrages were often used as a form of artliery. Right now missiles are more like tomahawks, feel like unit versus unit weapons rather than proper artillery. I do agree with that.

Maybe the catapult missiles should be buildable and have different uses, like a cluster bomb missile, or an EMP missile. That way its not straight forward artliery, opens up a cheaper nuclear missile that is not interplanetary, offers some utility with emp missiles and such.

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If they're not going to add shields we need some sort of defence against missiles or shells. Or both.

But why? We don't need a anti-tank shell unit do we?

Just destroy the launcher.

even if we don't need it, it would add diversity to the artliery type of having a missile launcher. There were originally works of producing a laser that could shoot down missiles. PA has laser technology so maybe it could have an anti missile system.

perhaps the anti nuke could be replaced with an anti missile system based on lasers rather than rebuildable missiles. Other people in other threads who wanted to balance nukes a certain way. This could solve two birds with one stone.

But anything that tries to get near it is hammered into the ground. Missile defence would be lovely.

You mean it defends it's self?

How is that any different to a turret, or a tank?

More range, more powah.

Not necessarily, and not compared to a bot blob.

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Its all about: "is turtle base possible and effective strategy or it is not". And Uber does not like too much turtling, because its not optimal strategy. Enemy could build catapult in range but you could also. If you cannot kill enemy catapults your problem is not lack of defense against it, you either lost most of planet and that other guy is just toying with you, or you are trying to turtle self and have no units. I also like to turtle, it is so easy choice. But we cannot complain that game is unbalanced because our lazy tactics does not work. Best counter for static artilerry is bunch of gunships mixed with fighters, or single nuke. So far i like how you cannot build perfectly protected base, and there is no corner to hide in (unless its moon).

People who fortify do tend to creep forwards with artliery. Building catapults in a line towards you, to the extent little u can do to stop them. Flak guns are very good at defending a small area against air. Not like the tools for turtling are not there. An anti missile system would actually help stop turtles, it wouldn't stop an land army or naval army or anything like that.

If turtles have adamantium shells and learn to roll forwards they would be unstoppable. Or they could just learn how to be ninjas that would work too.

No, you can't build your own catapult because the enemy catapult will catapult your catapult before you catapult catapults their catapult.

That requires that the enemy knows where you are building your catapult which is hard if you have a lot of units or send spam to that area.
Radar jammers are also likely to be included in PA which means that you could build your own artillery in range of their catapults without the enemy knowing.

If they're catapulting you then they probably have radar coverage of you.