Do battleships upgrade into missile cruisers?

Because... that would make sense.

No. Nothing upgrades to missile cruisers. They should but they don't.

I am not huge on military stuff, but can someone tell me why this would make sense?

As far as I am aware, we still deploy battleships and missile cruisers.

Yzman said:

I am not huge on military stuff, but can someone tell me why this would make sense?

As far as I am aware, we still deploy battleships and missile cruisers.

Click to expand...

And we still deploy bombers and stealth bombers.

What it means is that any very nice promotions you got from a seafaring civ go *poof* because it dead ends at battleship and destroyer.

Truth is the *destroyer* should become the Missile Cruiser. Unfortunately there's the issue of melee vs. ranged ships.

Yzman said:

I am not huge on military stuff, but can someone tell me why this would make sense?

As far as I am aware, we still deploy battleships and missile cruisers.

Click to expand...

Battleships were more along the lines of WWII ships. Strike groups are usually a combination of a carrier, and various missile cruisers, destroyers, and missile destroyers, and a sub or two once in a while if I remember correctly.

Its just unfortunate how much later in the game missile cruisers come compared to battleships. They are quite a bit more powerful though so it makes sense.

Nah... Dessys is light ships.

Cruisers is the middle point.

Battleships is the heavy weights.

Although we're suffering in this zone because there have been no modern battleships in years now. They all got phased out by aircraft carrier but battleships is still good for trolling backward countries in real life so there's still very few left because of that reason alone.

its funny cuz Battleships = awesome in civ while aircraft carrriers is meh in civ xD
Mainly because a loss of a battleship doesn't hurt as much as losing a aircraft carrier with all the planes on it and ease of production against current type AI Navies.

But I can see the rise of aircraft carriers if AI could use navy well and actually field large fleets.

Battleships still have a place in Civ5.

They have indirect fire, missile cruisers main weapon does not (ballistic missiles do though). So get +1 range and you can bombard 4 tiles inland, five tiles if you place the ship in a captured coastal city.

Because of this I've been giving all my battleships land bombardment and all my subs warpack. Subs swipe the seas, battleships hit the army inland and also assist with taking out destroyers. Carriers that stay with the fleet are loaded with interceptors. Other carriers ferry bombers to whatever coastal city was taken (and held first).

Missile cruisers, while late, bridge the gap between destroyers and battleships. Their main weapon is more powerful, but often can't fire on army units do to forests, hills, mountains. They can see subs though, so they make great escort units.

NukeAJS said:

Missile cruisers, while late, bridge the gap between destroyers and battleships. Their main weapon is more powerful, but often can't fire on army units do to forests, hills, mountains. They can see subs though, so they make great escort units.

Click to expand...

I would guess this is done on purpose simply because they are a missile cruisers so any lang based firing they figure will be done with guided missiles unless they can directly see the target. Guided missiles are just so underwhelming unfortunately. Spamming them would require several cruisers just to carry them all just to make a dent, then they have to travel all the way back home to get more. Of course options B being nuclear weapons is nice for those that utilize nuclear weapons often.