Platypus untargetable on water

[CaptainKickass]

I built a row of urchin (torpedo tower) with a row of slingshots behind it (floating anti air tower). Torpedoes should (to my knowledge) be able to target everything below and on water while anti-air missiles should be able to target everything above water. Yet the enemy platypus came in and neither the torpedoes nor the AA missiles could target it.

[MeSaber]

No torpedos dont hit hovers, and platy is secretly a hover unit.

[kvanbere]

Platypus are hard to understand as a new player. I think torpedos should be able to hit them because they are floating.

Moreover, I would even argue that torpedos should be able to fire at hovercraft but with significantly reduced damage (90% less or so) because intuitively there's no reason you couldn't fire a torpedo at a hovercraft.

This quora article goes into reasons why you might not use a torpedo against a hovercraft but none of them seem to apply in the high-tech scenario of robots vs robots: https://www.quora.com/Would-a-torpedo-be-an-effective-weapon-against-a-hovercraft and as a player I found the idea of torpedos not working against hovers to make no sense to me either.

Moreover, commander cannot build cheap "floating LLTs" which means there is no tower on the water that commander can build to defend against hover spam.