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Nowdays if you deplpoy an AA gun at your bunker or firebase it is just basicly demolition magnet inviting high explosives on that area. That's why AA guns haven't been used much by commanders who know this, secondly because AA gunner is very easy to kill in his seat, and so AA gun has become quite useless and even harmfull asset to your team. To prevent it there should be much larger radius to build it, lets say like 200 meters or even more away from bunker/firebase.

I think the purpose of the placed AA weapons is originally intended to allow air defense of your rear bases and CP's without having to keep more valuable equipment in the rear. You shouldn't be placing AA near the front lines because that's what MANPADs and mobile AA are for.

If commanders use them as intended, then the gunners won't become sniper or C4 magnets.

No, the reality in game has been just as I told. When you spot a AA gun everyone with a little more advanced game experience knows there is bunker or firebase needed to be destroyed if not already done.

So the purpose of airdefence is turned agaist all commanders assets at that area.

The AA can be placed in a 100m radius of a bunker or firebase... isn't that enough?

As I stated, the current use of the AA emplacement is not as it was originally intended. And a bunker or firebase is much easier to spot in my opinion that the AA gun, except from a distance when it's firing. If ground troops get close enough to your bunker or AA to use C4 or snipe it, then the commander hasn't done his job well enough.

That would be IRL but in game world you can make fast logical deductions according to game logic itself. If you spot AA gun (which is very easy to spot if used) you can tell yourself somewhere here (less than 100 meters away) is bunker or firebase (which are valuable spawnpoints to destroy).

You can place a Bunker 100m form a CP and the AA gun 100m from Bunker.. so you can place an AA gun about 200m from the CP.. far enough I think.

Its getting the CO truck within 50m without turning it over... now thats the difficult part.

I still have to disagree. As a commander I don't usually dare to deploy any AA guns, because by experience I know it endangers hardly build and best possible ways hidden bunker or firebase exponentially for time it is used.

You build bunkers to defend a flag, so if the enemy will cap it they will most likely find the bunker. Thats why you build AAA, to keep them away from the bunker/flag.