The Helicopter Carrier is an aircraft in Base Wars and is a large gunship helicopter that requires teammates to utilize fully. Being so bulky, the vehicle is rather cumbersome to control but is offset by the vehicle's large health and armor. The Helicopter Carrier can carry up to four players, two gunners and two passengers.
History[]
Note: This history is entirely fictional
The Helicopter Carrier is a name used to refer to the AZ-90 Helicopter gunship mass produced by VTX Works. Based on the CH-47 Chinook airframe, the tandem rotor helicopter is designed to carry heavy weapons and additional armor at the sacrifice of overall agility. This in turn produced an armored helicopter that can survive multiple direct hits from missiles while at the same time providing cover support for ground infantry. While crew counts are often low, fully manned gunships are a force to be reckoned with.
General Information[]
The Helicopter Carrier has the highest health of any aircraft, with 15000 health and with an innate resistance of 50% it can easily withstand any incoming attacks though prolonged damage will eventually destroy the vehicle. Unlike other aircraft, the Helicopter Carrier receives damage differently due to a separate damage multiplier.
The Helicopter Carrier is unique that unlike other aircraft, the pilot is unable to use any of the weapons and is only able to simply control the movements of the vehicle. Which due to its large size can only travel up to 95 km/h which is slower than the other aircraft in Base Wars, it also has an abysmal turning speed due to its size though it turns faster at slower speeds. Much like the Attack Helicopter, it can move sideways which can help in avoiding incoming shots.
There are four seats in the Helicopter carrier, two of which are reserved for the vehicle's gunners which the default weapons are 20mm Heavy Machine Guns. While great at tackling infantry, is pretty much worthless against any armored vehicle although is still effective against lightly armored vehicles like the Jeep or Vortex Fighter. The gunners also have the ability to repair the vehicle while in flight which will help prolong the longevity of the Helicopter Carrier.
Loadout Slots[]
The Helicopter Carrier's weapons are designed with anti-infantry in mind as the vehicle is essentially a flying gunship. Some weapons however were designed to tackle vehicles or a mix of both infantry and vehicles.
The 20mm Heavy Machine Gun is a Tier 1 weapon of the Helicopter Carrier and is unlocked by default. Much like any other 20mm Heavy Machine Gun seen on other vehicles, it is effective against infantry and lightly armored vehicles but otherwise suffers in performance against heavily armored vehicles.
General Information[]
Much like other 20mm Heavy Machine Guns, damage is rather high at 250 damage within 100m and dropping to 188 damage at 150m and beyond. This damage will allow the Helicopter Carrier to deal with infantry quickly and is surprisingly effective against lightly armored vehicles as the weapon fires at 750 RPM from a 50 round magazine.
However as the Helicopter Carrier is usually higher than 100m, the damage dealt is most often lower than its peers. Meaning that its overall effectiveness against infantry is reduced greatly although flying much closer to the enemy will resolve the issue but is rarely done as it would make the Helicopter Carrier far more vulnerable.
Damage Multipliers[]
These are the damage multipliers to various vehicles
- Aircraft (except Helicopter Carrier): x0.5
- Helicopter Carrier: x0.6
- Battle Tank: x0.3
- Artillery: x0.3
- Jeep and ATV: x0.3
- Spawn Truck: x0.2
- Navy: x0.5
- Defensive Turrets: x0.25
The 40mm Anti-Vehicle Grenade is a Tier 2 weapon of the Helicopter carrier and is unlocked at 5000 Battlescore. While it does good damage to infantry, its main focus is in its anti-vehicle role.
General Information[]
The 40mm Anti-Vehicle grenade's damage is very high, doing 1500 direct damage and 750 splash damage within a 5m radius. This allows the weapon to effectively instant kill most players with direct hits or severely damage them with splash damage alone. However its slow rate of fire of 90 RPM and its small magazine size of only 6 grenades limits its anti-infantry capabilities though it reloads rather quickly at 2 seconds.
The weapon's main focus however, as implied by the name, is to destroy vehicles effectively and with favourable damage multipliers, it is capable of doing large amounts of damage to enemy vehicles of any kind. Light aircraft especially will be destroyed in as little as two grenades at most if not a single grenade. This makes approaching a Helicopter Carrier armed with 40mm Anti-Vehicle Grenades in a Vortex headfirst somewhat dangerous as a single grenade is enough to destroy the aircraft despite its low velocity of 250 m/s.
Damage Multipliers[]
These are the damage multipliers to various vehicles
- Aircraft (except Helicopter Carrier): x1
- Helicopter Carrier: x1
- Battle Tank: x1.25
- Artillery: x1.2
- Jeep and ATV: x2
- Spawn Truck: x0.4
- Navy: x1.5
- Defensive Turrets: x0.5
The 30mm High-Explosive Cannon is a Tier 3 weapon of the Helicopter Carrier and is unlocked at 150000 Battlescore. A mix of anti-infantry and anti-vehicle, it a relativelty well-rounded weapon but does not excel in either.
General Information[]
The 30mm High-Explosive Cannon's damage is rather low, doing 175 damage within 100m and dropping to 131 damage at 150m and beyond. This is made up by the weapon being able to do deal splash damage of 167 damage within a 3m radius. While damage is low overall, the total damage output against infantry is much higher than the 20mm Heavy Machine gun even at a distance.
However, rate of fire is also low at 480 RPM and with a lower velocity of 500 m/s, hitting long range targets may be difficult since accuracy with the weapon is low though with a magazine size of 50 rounds one can just saturate an area with bullets. Performance against vehicles is somewhat poor despite favourable damage multipliers, this is due to the low overall damage per shot.
Damage Multipliers[]
These are the damage multipliers to various vehicles
- Aircraft (except Helicopter Carrier): x0.5
- Helicopter Carrier: x0.6
- Battle Tank: x1
- Artillery: x0.85
- Jeep and ATV: x0.6
- Spawn Truck: x0.5
- Navy: x0.9
- Defensive Turrets: x0.12
The 30mm High-Explosive Chaingun is a Tier 4 weapon of the Helicopter Carrier and is unlocked upon getting 10 Vehicles with Rank S. Compared to the 30mm High-Explosive Cannon, the 30mm High-Explosive Chaingun delivers superior performance overall.
General Information[]
Compared to the 30mm High-Explosive Cannon, the 30mm High-Explosive Chaingun does 200 damage within 100m and drops to 100 damage at 150m and beyond and does 167 splash damage within a 3m radius. While close range damage is higher, its long range damage suffers somewhat. The weapon also has a lower velocity of 300 m/s, making it troublesome to hit faster moving targets.
Where the weapon excels is in its rate of fire, firing at 1200 RPM the weapon can output its damage very rapidly and shred targets within range. Performance against infantry is very good as the sheer rate of fire will kill any player quickly. Its performance against vehicles while still doing rather low damage per shot, the rate of fire means that damage will be dealt very quickly. It can has the capability of shreding apart aircraft at close range.
Damage Multipliers[]
These are the damage multipliers to various vehicles
- Aircraft (except Helicopter Carrier): x0.5
- Helicopter Carrier: x0.6
- Battle Tank: x0.8
- Artillery: x1
- Jeep and ATV: x1
- Spawn Truck: x0.5
- Navy: x0.9
- Defensive Turrets: x0.45
Trivia[]
- The model is made by VotexAbrams951
- It is based on the CH-47 Chinook although the engines are not present.
- The previous model was similarly based on the CH-47 Chinook but had a tail rotor which is odd because the helicopter's design also ensured a counter rotating force.
- The Helicopter Carrier once had the most health of any vehicle in the game, until the Aircraft Carrier was reintroduced.
- The Helicopter Carrier is often used incorrectly due to its team focused nature.
| Vehicles | |||
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| Air | Vortex Fighter | Shadow Fighter | Tracker Fighter | Attack Helicopter | Helicopter Carrier | Bomber | ||
| Land | Jeep | Battle Tank | MAC Tank | Artillery | ATV | Spawn Truck | ||
| Sea | Destroyer | Speed Boat | Submarine | Aircraft Carrier | ||
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