Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Freya

"Flying tank taking the skies!"

-Freya gunship leaving the Aeronautic complex

Tactical analysis

 * A tank, that flies: The Freya is a powerful ground attack gyrodyne, armed with a pair of high-powered cannons that make it a tank's worst nightmare and its HMG turret can shred and suppress enemy infantry. It is well armored and can take admirable amounts of AA fire before going down
 * Explosion: When the ground threat is too high, the Freya can fire a salvo high explosive rockets, capable of devastating columns of infantry and tanks, and even crack apart light structures. Though limited rounds means that they can only fire it a few times
 * Less of a helicopter, more a gun on rotors: When the AA threat is too high, the Freya can perform a sweep attack, descending to such a low altitude that AA weapons cannot target and fighter pilots dare not engage it. However, at such altitudes anti-surface weapons will have no difficulty hitting it
 * Armored, but not invincible: Note that the Freya's lacks any defense against air units and, despite its armor, is still not advice for them to fly into heavy anti-air defenses or units. Additionally its rather slow for a gunship

History
"If that thing flies I will eat my hat!"

-William Zog, a retired pilot attending the Freya demonstration, a few minutes later he suffered indigestion from eating his beret

Rank upgrades
Experienced: TBA

Veteran: Unit cannon attacks gains an aoe, reduces rockets cooldown, and reduces sweep attack switch time

Heroic: Unit gains two anti-air HMGs, cannons are upgraded to gatling cannons, tripling rate of fire, rockets now leave a crater, which slows units inside it, and unit now gains a forcefield when using sweep attack

Ace: Unit HMGs are upgraded to autocannons, increasing damage, cannons now deal small EMP/MDP damage, doubles rockets area of effect, and unit now reduces all oncoming damage by half when doing sweep attack

Trivia

 * The Freya is based off the gyrodyne aircraft type, the banshee from starcraft, and the Foehn revolt Pteranodon from Mental omega