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How to use a helicopter carrier? (Little Upsilon)

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Andrews Munoz (Little Upsilon)
29 Jan 2009 07:36 Link
how to use a helicopter carrier?
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Treasurer (White Giant)
30 Jan 2009 06:17 Link
As a paper-weight.
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Stuart Taylor (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 12:34 Link
Agreed. Thats all they are good for.....
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Yankee (Fearless Blue)
30 Jan 2009 14:18 Link
Attack and Naval helicopters are best considered as longer range, hard hitting drones.

The big difference other than manpower requirements and casualty figures, is Naval Helicopters since they are in a seperate fleet cannot be used as shields.

Having said that .. there are more "useful" weapon systems to own. Depends on what you run up against though.
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Treasurer (White Giant)
30 Jan 2009 16:13 Link
It's just something else you would have to defend.
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Andrews Munoz (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 16:31 Link
aren't they usefull as a tranport for troops?
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Treasurer (White Giant)
30 Jan 2009 16:42 Link
No, helicopter carriers can only carry naval helicopters.
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Blue Serpent (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 17:58 Link
The troops swim behind it or take a tow on a long rope.:-P
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FarmerBob (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 18:48 Link
Teleporting, banana-armed space monkeys are the ultimate weapon, but you will have to purchase them from Laguna.
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Stuart Taylor (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 19:39 Link
I don't know so much Bob. I bought some of them off LG, and when they went to battle they just sat there eating the bananas instead of using them on the enemy.
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FarmerBob (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 20:07 Link
You forgot to feed them napalm and vagisil. Check Farmerland, mine work just fine.
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Andrews Munoz (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 20:50 Link
what its a Teleporting, banana-armed space and why they can't be purchease in the world marke? sorry i just got few week playing this game and there sre many things that i still dont know.
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FarmerBob (Little Upsilon)
30 Jan 2009 21:00 Link
There is only one corporation per world that can produce them. It is staffed solely by bare chested, sarong-clad, low level cabana boys. Laguna owns that corporation on every world. Like all strategic weapons, they are unavailable on the world market and must be purchased directly.
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Yankee (Fearless Blue)
30 Jan 2009 21:33 Link
There is no such thing as a banana armed space monkey anymore.

I got tired of them pulling the curtains off the wall so had them all put down. Not to mention they refused to wear a diaper and you can just imagine what all those bananas did.
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Treasurer (White Giant)
02 Feb 2009 15:46 Link
Monkey-Poo
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Blue Serpent (White Giant)
02 Feb 2009 18:37 Link
lmao
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quaxocal (Golden Rainbow)
03 Feb 2009 06:29 Link
What's wrong with naval helicopters? They seem to be 1/3 as good as NFP's, at 1/4 the costs. In the right situations they could be useful.
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Keith Allaire (Little Upsilon)
04 Feb 2009 05:02 Link
They also need a separate defense. By the time you factor in not being able to have a helicopter carrier and aircraft carrier in the same fleet, you're looking at 1/3 as good as NFP, at more than 1/3 the cost, at least if you want them defended anyway.
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Pathetic Sheep (White Giant)
04 Feb 2009 10:05 Link
Keith: why defend a helicarrier?

Yankee: The documentation says drones and helicopters have the same range.

Either drones or navy helicopters are useful when the enemy's only batteries are missile interceptors. This is especially true if the target is almost out of ammunition. The base costs of missile interceptors and navy missiles are about the same but the market usually drives the cost of missile interceptors up to double the base costs. Granted it is rare but I have seen a few. I still have a few helicarriers on white giant because I can't get rid of them.

Helicopters can also fly in circles and make monkeys dizzy. Helicopters are also known to make cattle stampede over barbed wire.
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Jack Frost (Little Upsilon)
17 Feb 2009 10:23 Link
lol Pathetic sheep... Stuart is good at that too