Air units role is to provide ground support: air superiority, air to ground attacks to kill tanks (what the real Apache was designed for) and occasionally infantry, and for support fire during assaults/extractions.

Makes me laugh to see 6+ choppers heading to the base, thinking they can take it out. Unless the defending team is clueless, it's a slaughter: dead choppers and pilots falling like rain...

(ex-Air Force flight sergeant)