Air Pad
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The Air Pad is a military building produced off of a Firebase in the game Halo Wars. It is the building where you recruit and station aircraft. Here you can recruit the Hornets, Hawks and Vultures from the Spirit of Fire. It also serves as a place to acquire the Bar. It costs 150 resource points and requires 2 energy units.
According to halowars.com;
Air superiority can be of vital importance, not only for intelligence gathering but also for tactical strikes at your enemy’s weak points. A UNSC Airpad is a surprisingly sophisticated structure that not only houses the maintenance crews required to refit, repair, and rearm Hornets, it also houses banks of simulation pods to train pilots in everything from the basics to advanced tactical maneuvers. Desperate times can call for desperate measures, and on more than a few occasions Fire Base Commanders have thrown any able bodies they’ve had at their disposal into the simulators for a crash course in operating the Attack VTOL-14. With the Spirit of Fire at your disposal to provide trained air crews, chances are you won’t have to resort to these sorts of unorthodox procedures.[1]
The Covenant equivalent is the Summit.
[edit] Units Produced and Available Upgrades
- Hornet : 250 resources and requires a tech level of 2. Takes up two population.
- Wingmen : 200 resources and requires a tech level of 3. Adds two wingmen armed with Rocket Launchers.
- Chaff Pod : 450 resources and requires a tech level of 4. Adds a passive ability that diverts incoming missiles.
- Hawk (Only for Professor Anders) 1,000 resources and requires a tech level of 4. Ander's super unit.
- Vulture : 900 resources and requires a tech level of 4. Takes up six population.
- Mega Barrage : 800 resources and requires a tech level of 4. Doubles the amount of missiles in the mega barrage.
