the ladder version has 15 aa range but coop it only has 6, the same as a stalker. also it is more expensive than the ladder version.
sorry but to me the ingame discription is misleading: “siege artillery craft. attacks from long range.”
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Amon’s Tempests play the same rules, so it’s not so bad, especially since yours can be upgraded to use Disintegration, which has a cast range of 15, and can be cast on any form of enemy target, be it ground, air, or structure.
And you should be spamming it, since you can only stack one Disintegrate on a target, so you can rapid-fire them over groups of enemy capital ships and effortlessly put a death sentence on them from long range.
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Ladder Tempests also take 5 supply, are more fragile, have even less dps and higher attack cooldown. I rather have the current Tempest than one that tickles their enemies to death from the other side of the map.
Also, “siege” and “artillery” usually implies destroying fortified positions and long-range anti-ground bombardment, not long-range anti-air.
Do not rapid fire Disintegrate, because it doesn’t count as applied while the projectile is still traveling to the target. Because of that, rapidfire will make multiple Tempests fire Disintegrate on the same target.
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Er, are you absolutely sure about that? Because I make use of Disintegrate all the time, and with the rapid-fire hotkey trick, I’ve never once had any in my groups of Tempest ever fire more than one Disintegrate at a time when I mash over a few units or buildings.
I thought I would have recalled such an obvious thing like wasted Disintegrates, honestly, if that were a thing. It’s a fun ability to use.
TBH, I haven’t used rapidfire with it for very long (because last time I did, it was common for me to have an entire army of Tempests waste their Disintegrates on like 3-4 units), so I had to recheck it if it’s still the case.
I just unloaded 9 out of 10 Disintegrates on a single void shard with rapidfire (apparently that last Tempest was too slow to turn around and it tried to fire when the first Disintegrate already hit).
Do not rapidfire Disintegrates. 
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Okay; thanks for testing! I guess I am used to being smart about spamming them efficiently due to me used to smartcasting yamatos to avoid that very overkill.