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| - Sky Boxers are different than the Cybran Bangers for one reason: the guns are pointed towards the rear of the tank!. This means that if you lose radar support, and your Sky Boxers are travelling in the same direction as your advance, the Flak guns will have to swivel completely around to fire, and then swivel back. No tactically sound player starts a bombing run from the back of a formation, because this increases his exposure time to ground AA significantly. The "bomb from rear" move is especially foolish against a group of Sky Boxers for obvious reasons. This is not a major drawback, as the Sky Boxer can turn its turret around in less then 0.8 seconds; it just means that if your Sky Boxers are moving as part of a formation and the guns are in their "stowed" positions, they will do less D
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| - Sky Boxers are different than the Cybran Bangers for one reason: the guns are pointed towards the rear of the tank!. This means that if you lose radar support, and your Sky Boxers are travelling in the same direction as your advance, the Flak guns will have to swivel completely around to fire, and then swivel back. No tactically sound player starts a bombing run from the back of a formation, because this increases his exposure time to ground AA significantly. The "bomb from rear" move is especially foolish against a group of Sky Boxers for obvious reasons. This is not a major drawback, as the Sky Boxer can turn its turret around in less then 0.8 seconds; it just means that if your Sky Boxers are moving as part of a formation and the guns are in their "stowed" positions, they will do less DPS for a second or two while the turret swivels around. However, the Sky Boxer can be considered the best mobile AA for assaults in the middle of a base, past the air factories and staging facilities, handling air units when behind enemy lines quite well as the sky boxer won't have to swivel it's turret around, and can just immediately fire on the air units, so that in significant numbers, the sky boxers won't have to turn their turret, thus anhilating most air units. Finally, you can mount the sky boxer on a Stinger gunship to make the gunship have on demand AA. Never underestimate the importance of being able to send gunships to an enemy base and drop off some AA and assault units to take care of interceptors and stationary anti-air emplacements, especially the ones behind shields.
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