Advanced air superiorty

[DJ_Izumi]

Currently, the Air Superiority mission only applies to aircraft in their bases, they defend within a few squares of their city, base, or carrier. What about a form of Combat Air Patrol, where you can send the fight outward to provide air cover for bombers and other units. Basicly, so the fighter can patrol another area. He may be sent to patrol an area where enemy fighters are patroling, and the air war suddnly gets more entertaining. (Not to mention, the AI should use aircraft as more then simple bombers to hit cities and resources.)

 

[casual_moose]

do you mean be able to move them like ground units?

 

[DJ_Izumi]

No, not at all. You simply click on the fighter, and tell him where within his range to guard, so he won't guard his base, he'll guard the area you clicked for instead.

 

[Ian Beale]

Yep i like the idea of having fighters protecting bombers on missions. It is annoying when you can't "take on" an opponents fighters as it means your bombers are very vulnerable to attack.

 

[LouLong]

I agree 100%.

In RL, you just don't send your bombard planes to be killed until the enemy fighter dies of lack of sleep (well, except during the German blitz but that was because they lacked fighters, especially reaching that far), you send fighters before and as protection to take on enem fighters.

 

[DJ_Izumi]

As a stop gap solution for existing Civ games, just make your fighters to have equal defence and attack. Then you send a fighter in first to 'bombard' but what he really does is attract the enemy fighters and you clear out resistance, then send in the bombers and helicopters.

 

[casual_moose]

No, not at all. You simply click on the fighter, and tell him where within his range to guard, so he won't guard his base, he'll guard the area you clicked for instead.

o good idea but i would liketo be able to move them like ground units

 

[Louis XXIV]

I would like an "Escort Bomber" ability for fighters. They would only be able to escort bombers up to their maximum range (not the Bombers). I want Fighters to attack each other in the air. Also, they should probably have an equal chance of defeating each other.

 

[Dida]

I think we should be able to actively attack enemy air unit when they are still hiding in cities or airports.
we should be able to send in fighters and bombers and destroy the enemy air force while they are still on the ground.

 

[Dida]

i think the fighters should be on air superiority mission by default, saving us the work of having to put them all into that mode.