Missile/Rocket defence systems, Are PDLs the weakest? Options

[clarissemcclella...]

China's ECM and ECA's chaff allow deflection of missile/rocketbarrages and russia's ARENA systems has a high firerate to shut down most of a barrage, although it can harm your infantry and has to reload. PDLs on the other hand, apart from the PDL drone and the guardian angels super PDL don't seem to offer near as much protection against missiles and rockets. Is there any advantage to the PDL that I'm missing?

[Knjaz.]

China's ECM and ECA's chaff allow deflection of missile/rocketbarrages and russia's ARENA systems has a high firerate to shut down most of a barrage 1*, although it can harm your infantry and has to reload. PDLs on the other hand, apart from the PDL drone and the guardian angels super PDL don't seem to offer near as much protection against missiles and rockets. Is there any advantage to the PDL that I'm missing 2*?

1* My experience and actual tests show direct opposite. Arena is the easiest to overwhelm and absolutely worst when it comes to dealing with missile bursts, due to massive amount of overkill that happens due to Arena's projectile slow speed. The ROF on the PDL is also higher. Strangely people dont notice it often, like even Hanfield didn't notice it until recently. (and that's with a buffed fanpatch arena). Only thing that plays into Arena's case is coverage.

2* Yes, you're using PDL drones (I guess Paladins too) as the main source of PDL, and not a dedicated PDL unit like Avengers instead, when dealing with missile bursts. My only explanation here, really.

3* Oh right, we're in 1.4 atm. And in official 1.4 Avenger PDLs dont work.

This post has been edited by Knjaz.: 27 Apr 2018, 7:14