Help Please

[jackreese2004]

I usually never reach the modern age, so forgive these seemingly basic questions.
1) My mobile sam wont work when placed inside my city or outside it. The Celts friggin bombers are having a field day with my Country and I won't have it! lol I tried having them on Sentry, Sentry only Enemy, so what gives?
2) What about Cruise Missils, what setting/placements work for homeland security?
3) I'm really pissed at Spain...I just signed a mpp with them for 150 gold, then hit the Next turn button, and they RE Declared war because of a mpp with the Friggin Dutch. (I guess I know that you can break a mpp anytime you feel like it...but...the Spaniards are gonna feel some tactical nukes up there Arse in about 11 turns!

Thanks for any and all help/suggestions
Jack

[thetrooper]

Originally Posted by jackreese2004

I'm really pissed at Spain...I just signed a mpp with them for 150 gold, then hit the Next turn button, and they RE Declared war because of a mpp with the Friggin Dutch. (I guess I know that you can break a mpp anytime you feel like it...but...the Spaniards are gonna feel some tactical nukes up there Arse in about 11 turns!

Be careful with the MPPs! If you have more than one MPP, the effect will depend on your action. Did you attack the Dutch? I am not sure if I understand... If Spain have MPP with you and the Dutch and you attack the
Dutch, Spain will have to declare on you and vice versa.

And, a little advice, be careful with your language in these forums. Profanity threshold is low

[Theoden]

Originally Posted by jackreese2004

2) What about Cruise Missils, what setting/placements work for homeland security?

Using cruise missiles for home defense is not what they exactly were meant to be doing but...
Bomb down enemy units, entering your territory, with artillery then finish them off with cruise missiles. Off course using bombers here would be far more effective but if no bomber is nearby and you just want that unit dead.

And regarding the mobile sams i think they have to be fortified not sentry if you want them to work.

[jackreese2004]

I did not try to Fortify the sams....I assumed that when you select "sentry" the missiles actually move to a ready/vertical position. (Hence, I assumed that meant they were ready for action!)
I will try just a fortify position..
Thanks for replying and the help !
Jack

[Sparrow3]

IIRC you don't have to sentry or fortify SAMs to get them to work. They just have a low hit probability and if they don't hit they appear to not be working.

Have you tried putting 4-6 in the same city? Plus try to figure out where the Celt bomber are stationed and bomb that city.

[jackreese2004]

I guess it was that low probability factor that I didnt consider. And I only had ONE sam in that city.

Thanks

[sabo]

SAMS will work if you just sentry them, but in order to be semi effective I usually put 4 or more in my cities I want to protect.

Also, like sparrow said, when the AI is bombing you for a split second you will see which city they are coming from before they take off, that is if the city is on the screen. THen bomb THAT city with YOUR bombers and the first units to take casualities and die will be any air unit (fighters, jets, bombers)

[Theoden]

IIRC putting more than 4 sams in the same square is futile because no more than four can get a chance to attack an airplane.

[sabo]

Originally Posted by Theoden

IIRC putting more than 4 sams in the same square is futile because no more than four can get a chance to attack an airplane.

I didn't know that Theoden, thanks