Port and city AA upgrades

[jjdenver]

Do port AA upgrades help protect the ships in the port?

Do city/town/resource AA upgrades help protect the land units in those hexes?

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why?

Thanks

[EarlyDoors]

ORIGINAL: jjdenver

Do port AA upgrades help protect the ships in the port?

Do city/town/resource AA upgrades help protect the land units in those hexes?

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why?

Thanks

Do port AA upgrades help protect the ships in the port? - Yes the ship benefits from the Defense bonus
Do city/town/resource AA upgrades help protect the land units in those hexes? - Yes same as above

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why? - Only gives bonus for Resource against Strategic Bombers

[Marcinos1985]

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why? - Only gives bonus for Resource against Strategic Bombers

You can upgrade AA units to level 3 actually. This may be worth considering in Russia (in case it lasts that long), because you have no other realistic means of defense against German bombers.

In my games I saw German AA lvl 3 too, for protection against mainly US aircraft. You may argue if it is necessary, but the sprite looks really nice.

[Jackmck]

AA upgrades to 3 and beyond also give bonus for port defense. A port upgraded to level 3 or 4 with a fully upgraded naval unit next to a fully upgraded AA will be very hard/costly to attack.

[Hellfirejet]

I think that the game needs to do away with having separate units for Artillery, Anti-Air, and Anti-Tank and have these individual units added as research upgrades to Divisions, Corps, and Armies. Due to the map scale for virtually all, Strategic Command Campaign level games, there is just not enough room on the map for everything, especially since the game does not allow for unit stacking.[&:]

[GiveWarAchance]

kirk that makes sense but I prefer having the unique units to add flavor and variety. Maybe there could be a researchable + upgrade option for infantry and tanks to add on extra AT, arty and AA (actually already have AA) plus still have the dedicated AT and AA guns and artillery units. I think for artillery, the unit represents a large artillery corps that can move to support different armies like the Soviets used to do all the time in WW2. They had gigantic artillery corps that temporarily supported offensives. The AT gun in game most probably represents the Soviet pak fronts that massed ridiculous numbers of AT guns in a small area.

[Christolos]

ORIGINAL: EarlyDoors

ORIGINAL: jjdenver

Do port AA upgrades help protect the ships in the port?

Do city/town/resource AA upgrades help protect the land units in those hexes?

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why?

Thanks

Do port AA upgrades help protect the ships in the port? - Yes the ship benefits from the Defense bonus
Do city/town/resource AA upgrades help protect the land units in those hexes? - Yes same as above

Also is level 3 AA ever worth researching and why? - Only gives bonus for Resource against Strategic Bombers

I think this may have been answered somewhere before in this forum, but I can never remember whether AA defense upgrade effects are stackable. I.e., do they addon to each other. For instance, would port AA defense addon to ship AA defense in a port, and would a land unit's AA defense addon to a fort/resource/city's AA defense for a land unit in that fort/resource/city hex?

Also, would an adjacent AA unit also come into play by first defending the hex, and then the hex's combined AA defense kick in after?

C

[EarlyDoors]

Yes, a unit will use its Defence Value
and in addition it will receive the Defence Bonus of the terrain/resource
which could be an AA upgraded resource

Which could also receive Air Cover from fighters or adjacent AA units

[Christolos]

Thanks EarlyDoors! [:)]

C