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Combine Gunship
Health: special (see below)
Attack Damage: 3 per bullet
First Seen: Highway 17, Section 2
Unlike Combine dropships, Combine gunships are powerful enemies who can maneuver well and shoot you to pieces with their cannons (much like the hunter-choppers). They don't have a fixed health value per se, but are instead only vulnerable to a certain number of RPG rocket hits (3, 5, or 7, depending on what game difficulty you're playing on). When fighting a gunship, duck for cover when it's firing at you and use your RPG against it when it isn't.
NOTE: Gunships watch for incoming fire and can sometimes shoot your RPG rockets down. To minimize the chances of this happening, be as close to the gunship as you can when you fire and use the guided-missile nature of RPG rockets to zig-zag the rocket around a little instead of making it go in a straight line. Also, always fire on a gunship when it's not turned your way -- its forward cannon is all it's got to shoot with.
