So... is anti-air any good?

[Daleran]

I think if you have an artillery as a battalion rather than a company it provides more firepower, but uses more supplies. So I'm guessing AA battalion will provide better defense against bombers than a company.

Using 1940 numbers, here is the breakdown:

Line AA vs SPT AA

Cost 225/150
Manpower 500/300
Supply 0.1/0.1
Weight 0.5/0.1
Width 1/0
Recover 0.1/0.1
HP 0.6/0.2
S-ATK 3.5/2.1
H-ATK 11/6.6
Air-ATK 27.5/22.5
DEF 4.0/2.4
Breakthrough 1.0/0.6
Piercing 60/60

 

[Denkt]

But the stats don't list what I said which is the important stuff.

 

[Athan.]

Support guns (I mean all of them) have a bit less attack and piercing and a bit worse stats overall but do not effect the division in any negative way, like paratroopers can still paradrop and so on, just pure gain.

Ahhh very good callout, hadn't thought about it that way.

Support guns are suited for small divisions because the gain from the guns are big for a small division and the gain from other support companies who compete with the support spots are low for small divisions.

Got it, small divisions benefit from support guns more than they do from other support companies.

For a large division you are probably better off using the support slots for the support companies and use line guns as they are known as (those that take up combat slots).

You can only use one of each support gun but you can use as many line guns as you can fit which again is more useful for large divisions.

Thanks, that explanation as well as the statistics others posted helps make it much more clear as to why you would use Support versus Line anti-air, which was my original (poorly worded) question.

 

[Denkt]

Ahhh very good callout, hadn't thought about it that way.

You can see if the division can be paradroped or not, the game will show a symbol next to each battalion if it hinder paradroping or not.

Got it, small divisions benefit from support guns more than they do from other support companies.

The support companies give a static % bonus of some sort while they have a static cost (it cost the same no matter how large the division are). For example a field hospital provide the same bonus to each infantry battalion in a large 20 battalion division as in a smal 5 battalion division but the field hospital cost the same in both cases so less gain for the cost if you go with the smal division.

The support guns add some stats which is the same no matter the size of the division but adding 50 soft attack to the 5 battalion division is a much larger gain then adding 50 soft attack to the 20 battalion division.