Flying Machine (Warcraft III)

The ingenious dwarven engineers replaced their gyrocoptersWarcraft III: Reign of Chaos manual, Human Units, Gyrocopter with upgraded flying machines during the events of The Frozen Throne.
==Information==
Flying Machines are cheap, but extremely effective anti-air units. While a small batch of flying machines is unimpressive, they are particularly effective against medium aerial units such as Dragonhawk Riders, Gryphon Riders and Wind Riders when sufficiently massed.
The Flying Machine can automatically detect invisible units, such as Shades and mines.
Flying Machines possess the ability to attack ground units when Flying Machine Bombs are researched, although its extremely weak and only effective against buildings; even then, it requires numerous Flying Machines just to destroy a town hall, though it does make them ideal for harassment against unguarded towns due to being able to quickly flee when the enemy returns to defend their base.
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Troll Batriders can use Unstable Concoction to suicide themselves onto the Flying Machines, essentially killing them in a single hit. If the player is moving a large number of machines, two or three Troll Batriders can decimate the entire group.
Their relatively low health also means a concentrated group of Gargoyles, Hippogryphs, and Frost Wyrms can easily destroy large groups of Flying Machines, due to the machine's low health. Gargoyles and Hippogryphs possess a powerful and rapid aerial attack that easily overwhelms the Flying Machine, while the Frost Wyrm's high health and damage can take down Flying Machines with ease due to their magic-type attack being highly effective against Heavy armor.
==Spells and abilities==
===True Sight (Passive)===
: Reveals nearby invisible units.
===Flying Machine ombs (Passive)===
: Allows Flying Machines to attack land units.
Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
150 100 	Workshop 	Castle 	35 sec.
The Flying Machine gains a weak siege "melee" range attack allowing them to attack ground units and buildings. Avoid getting this research to ensure the Flying Machines don't target ground units (and then proceed to get destroyed by other aerial units they should be destroyed in the first place). Only research if the machines are designated for base bombing runs.
===Flak annons (Passive)===
:Upgrades the weapons on Flying Machines to give them an area effect damage attack against air units.
{| class="darktable" style="text-align:center;"	Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time
100 150	Workshop 	Keep 	40 sec. 	
The damage dealt by Flak Cannons is affected by both Armor type and value.
So the damage values listed above will actually be double against Light armor,
and 50% more against Unarmored.
==Upgrades==
==Battle.net description==
Mechanical flying machine flown by a Dwarven pilot.
==World Editor description==
:Fast moving flying machine. Excellent at scouting, and effective against air units. Can learn the Flying Machine Bombs and Flak Cannons upgrades.
==Quotes==
*See Warcraft III Flying Machine quotes
==Patch changes==
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==See also==
*Gnomish Flying Machine (Warcraft II)
==References==
==External links==
Category:Dwarf characters
Category:Flying machines