abstract
| - This gunship has a powerful laser capable of easily destroying groups of ground units, and provides focused, high damage killing power in contrast to the T2 Gunship's carpet-type rockets. A single Wailer is much more effective than a swarm of weaker gunships, as it can't get annihilated by flak so easily. This unit is the Cybran's answer to the UEF's Broadsword and the Aeon's Restorer. Unlike other Cybran T3 air units, the Wailer features radar jamming instead of stealth. Its anti-air weapon is better than that of the Broadsword, but only marginally, and it is hard-pressed to protect it from anything tougher than a few stray interceptors. Its anti-air rockets, in comparison, lack the distance of the Aeon Restorers' rockets. The Wailer is much closer to the Broadsword than the Restorer. Although its AA is better than the Broadsword's (no great accomplishment, as the Broadsword's AA is one of the weakest weapons in the game) its firepower is focused on destroying ground units with its powerful laser, giving it a similar battlefield role. Although the most fragile T3 gunship, its jamming suite gives it some protection from direct-targeted AA attacks which rely on radar to pick out a target, such as T3 SAM batteries.
|