Anyone who's played Red Alert 2 will recognize this majestic beast on sight. The kirov airship is easily the most iconic unit in not just Red Alert 2, but the franchise as a whole. However for how iconic it is the unit actually isn't all that good in game. First, it's expensive as hell, and painfully slow to boot. Sure basically anything under it instantly dies, but pretty much any unit is fast enough to get away from it and it's basically impossible to rush it. On top of it all, It's one of the few units that announces itself to your opponent. This is especially terrible bc it's so slow, since any decent opponent will have days to prepare enough AA to blow it out of the sky. On top of that, Kirovs are incredibly predictable. Since it's the only air unit the soviet has apart from the siege chopper (which has to setup on the ground to do a ton of damage), everyone knows to build AA to stop a potential kirov attack. The only thing it's sort of good at in that game is acting as a sort of damage sponge to V3 and dreadnaught rockets, but even that isn't that good since V3s are also pretty mediocre units.
That said, despite everything bad I've said about this unit, I still think it's one of my favorite units in that game, bc Kirovs are incredibly fun. Sure it's slower than molasses, but once you actually get in to their base with a kirov, it can pretty much demolish it on its own. There's very little in this game that can beat the dopamine rush you get from somehow sneaking a kirov into the enemy base. Even as the opponent, Kirovs are still fun, bc it announces itself and gives you time to setup a defense. When you're a new player, there's very few things in this game that commands as much fear and respect as the phrase "Kirov reporting", mainly bc everyone who's played this game has had their base deleted by kirovs at some point. Kirovs are unquestionably low tier, but they still enhance the game just by being really fun to use and play against.
With that in mind, I also want to talk about another low tier that's actively bad but barely anyone remembers: The flak trooper. Flak troopers are a tier 2 soviet AA infantry that's basically bad at everything it's trying to do. They're too squishy against infantry, so they don't trade well with T1 infantry, They do too little damage against air units, so they're basically useless in their main role, and they d
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After MSQ you can travel to and from Radz-at-Han via airship from any city-state for 300 gil. Including Kugane and Ishgard. Hopefully this saves y'all some gil from teles if you have a city-state favored destination.
What an awesome 3 years. And we got a lot of time at level 20. Definitely made the ending feel more satisfying. Even then, for the final battle we received special boons catered to our characters interests and strengths that were related to events of the story prior. So excited to get back into the awesome homebrew world and learn more about everything as time continues!
Thank you so much for joining us for todays AMA! The AMA has now ended. Thank you for all the awesome questions!
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Please join us for an AMA with Airship Syndicate as well as Rowan Parker, the Creative Director at Riot Forge.
Airship SyndicateJoe Madureira - CEO & Creative DirectorRyan Stefanelli - PresidentSteve Madureira - Design DirectorAndres Ortiz Suarez - Lead ProgrammerBrooke Griffith - Associate Lead ProgrammerRon LaJoie - Lead Producer
Riot Forge
Rowan Parker - Creative Director
Gina Tavarozzo - Community Manager
Laura Michet - Senior Narrative Editor
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Necrit did an interview with them about the game. TLDW, Yorick was left out due to time constraints, and they prioritized Maokai.
Super bummed about that, but I'm glad Maokai got something at least...
Put firework rockets in the loot table for End City Airship chests, so players can immediately take full advantage of their shiny new wings without having to bring rockets in advance. It would also help new players realise that you can use rockets to fly with wings without having to use a wiki.
