General
The Gravitic Turret is the anti-air turret for the Hierarchy. It focuses gravity into a long beam/laser and holds aircraft in place while slowly crushing them. The Gravatic turret is extremely good at what it does and has some compitition with the novus redirection turret as the best anti air turret in the game. The Gravatic turret can also be upgraded into the manipulative turret which does everything the unupgraded one can except the manipulative turret lowers aircraft to the ground so all ground units can deal damage to it. This makes the gravatic turret even more effective.
TACTICAL APPLICATION
Because enemy aircraft tend to fly right over your spitter turrets, you should have the gravatic turret either right behind the spitter turrets, in front of your arrival sight, or both. If your looking to intimidate an enemy into using a ground attack in multiplayer mode you should build at least 5 gravatic turrets behind your spitter turrets and three in front of your arrival site. Upgrading them will further discourage the enemy. Gravitic turrets are extremely feared with the desolator turret upgrade which brings enemy aircraft to the ground for spitter turrets and ground units to attack them.
Production
Method: Built by Glyph Carver
Prerequisites: Habitat Walker, Assembly Walker, or Detection Drone
Cost: 300
Time: 0:25
Limit: 25
Upgrades
Fast Ordering
Effect: Glyphs carve 25% faster
Method: Research Quantum Branch Suite 2
Manipulator Turret
Effect: Forces targeted aircraft to land, allowing anti-ground attacks to strike them
Method: Direct upgrade to Gravitic Turret
Prerequisites: None
Cost: 400
Time: 0:15
Trivia
- General Randal Moore at first thought that it was some kind of magnetic technology.