Best Air Units?

[louie6442]

May seem like bit of a stupid question, but which faction would you guys say have the most effective, cost efficient and generally best air units? I'm relatively new to supcom but I've already found out that I extremely enjoy using air units a lot. Thanks -louie

[PhilipJFry]

Air fighter (Interceptor/ASF) are pretty much the same for the most part (Cybran ASF are considered slightly weaker but have stealth).
Bombers/Gunships as well as T2 air is where the big differences are.

T1 Bomber: UEF/Cybran have spread out bombs which can miss/not kill stuff they should. Aeon has slightly less dmg compared to Sera but a stun ability.
Cybran also have a T1 gunship which while not a good unit for a rush should not be underestimated.

On T2 air the Aeon dominate with the swift wind, have a nice option for snipes with the mercy (but only when there is 0 AA around) and a Gunship that doesn't stand out a lot.
UEF has the Janus that has huge aoe on it's bomb and can wipe out a lot of t1 stuff and the Stinger which can carry units.
Seraphim has a t2FB that hits stationary targets reliably but has too little aoe to be any decent moving units and a regular gunship.
The Cybran gunship has aoe and the T2 FB shoots missiles instead of bombs which hit moving targets really well which makes it a good acu-sniping tool.

On T3 you have a few differences between the Strategic Bombers

Cybran has the most aoe but the least dmg
UEF/Sera are somewhere in the middle
Aeon has the least aoe but deals the most dmg

All factions except for Sera have T3 Gunships and while the Cybran/UEF T3 gunships are fairly similar the Aeon T3 gunship stands out because it can fight against air units to a certain degree as well as ground units.

In terms of Transports the rule of thumb is:

Cybran transports are the worst
UEF/Aeonare in the middle while UEF also has a T3 transport (other factions do not)
Sera has the best Transports in the same tech category

[louie6442]

Which faction would one use if playing quite aggressively and going for more quantity than quality?

[PhilipJFry]

Probably Cybran because they have the most choices overall.

[rxnnxs]

i expected to read quite some different answers.

when people (were) are playing with different roles (lets say setons), the air player mostly was even asked by the team comrades to take aeon,
but this might be outdated information.

[PhilipJFry]

Aeon used to be the faction of choice on Setons mostly because of the strong double RAS and T3 Torp bomer (a category which i completely ignored in the list because they can only be used on maps with water and aside from the Solace all torp bomber do exactly the same). And since Setons Air is for 99% of the time limited to T3 Air rush and nothing else there isn't a lot variety to find.

[louie6442]

Thanks for the answers guys, appreciate it. I'm loving the UEF at the moment but maybe I'll give Crybran a try.

[TheKoopa]

Sera and Aeon t1 bombers have the same damage, 200

[Exotic_Retard]

yeah, except the sera bomber does 250

[PhilipJFry]

yeah, except the sera bomber does 250

Boy if only someone would have linked the database somewhere in this thread.