Scathis toggles as antiaircraft gun?

[KrogothFTW]

Think about it; it's a rotary cannon with large aoe, cybran have aa which can toggle direct fire. How hard would it be to mod? I don't know if SC can find a firing solution with the first leg of a high ballistic parabola, so maybe give the AA gun no arc like other AA and simply halve its max radius. Edit: and make it explode at target altitude.

That would be much different from a Fatboy or Mavor.

Overpowered? Not at twice the mass of an air experimental (which it still couldn't quite destroy before taking damage)

[Quarian]

The splash damage alone would ensure total devastation to ASF swarms... that alone is cause for worry, but also immunity to it's natural enemy: strats. Maybe you could tinker with this in a mod, but I don't see this as a good idea.

[KrogothFTW]

Is the Scathis so effective against ground counterattacks, or just bases, at half T3 heavy artillery long range? What about close range?

I failed to add that it ought to retain its deployment requirement., and that it would be relatively slow for an AA turret. (90/s yaw, vs 180, 30/s pitch vs 180)

[codepants]

This is sure be a cool concept, but at the end of the day I agree with Quarian -- you are making the Scathis immune to its natural counter.

[SC-Account]

Yeah Scathis vs. air is epic I use it a lot for that purpose!

[da_monstr]

If it were able to shoot an ASF swarm, it would melt their faces off. Or strats and gunships, for that matter. It would be a funny mod, but not really balanced. Scathis is good as it is.