Commentary

Anonymous wrote on Jul 13, 2011:

I have a problem with both vindicator and avenger sams, the missiles follow my vtols all the way back to my base, which is several times further than the sam's range of 20.

Shadow Wolf TJC wrote on Oct 17, 2011:

Much like with Lancers (and their more advanced counterparts) and Ripple Rockets (along with Archangel Missiles), while Vindicators are great at picking off individual VTOLs thanks to their long range and high damage-per-salvo, their poor rate-of-fire make them ineffective against massed aerial assaults due to their tendency for overkill when massed (and also due to an apparent general lack of being able to retarget other units when their original target is destroyed X-p ). Against such massed assaults, I'd recommend using massed Whirlwinds or Stormbringers due to their much higher rate-of-fire instead of massed Vindicators, though you could still build one or two of these in the same general area as your Whirlwinds or Stormbringers to provide more AA coverage over a wider area.

@ Anonymous: The same could also be said for any AA weapon like Whirlwind and Stormbringer rounds.

Anonymous wrote on Jan 6:

SAM stands for Surface to Air Missile, actual missiles can track airplanes all the way
Try using some fodder airplanes, AI will make the SAM sites shoot all the missiles, then you can strike them with the surviving slower but stronger planes