Aerial recon

[TheLazyHase]

Hello

I have a micro management problem : I have a lot of aircraft and people from the other continent want to invade me, so I'm using them to recon the sea, so I can know in advance where to put my frigates.

But, it take a lot of time to do that every turn. 15 airship to recon = ~1 minute per turn. In marathon speed, it's rather tiresome. Do you know a way to automatize that ? Something as simple as "loop recon" would be enough.

 

[§L¥ Gµ¥]

yeah, and if anyone knows how to group aircraft together so I can group bombard, group bomb a city, that'd significantly shorten up endgames.

 

[Silu]

You don't need to recon every turn. Every 2-3 should be enough, right? There's no way to automate that that I'm aware of.

yeah, and if anyone knows how to group aircraft together so I can group bombard, group bomb a city, that'd significantly shorten up endgames.

Enable stack attack, ctrl click, bomb away.

 

[Woodreaux]

I've run across this issue myself. Constant use of aerial recon is total micro-management but it's often useful. I even asked the BUG team about it, but I suspect it's very difficult to implement.

 

[Khan Quest]

yeah, and if anyone knows how to group aircraft together so I can group bombard, group bomb a city, that'd significantly shorten up endgames.

Press & hold Ctrl while clicking each bomber.

 

[§L¥ Gµ¥]

You don't need to recon every turn. Every 2-3 should be enough, right? There's no way to automate that that I'm aware of.



Enable stack attack, ctrl click, bomb away.

thx, and....

The late game has fast moving ships, so it's best to recon every turn if you're looking to ward off an intercontinental invasion force, or protect your own transports with preemptive strikes.

 

[JammerUno]

The AI usually keeps the bulk of it's fleet in one city, you can also just keep an eye on that.

 

[r_rolo1]

Hello

I have a micro management problem : I have a lot of aircraft and people from the other continent want to invade me, so I'm using them to recon the sea, so I can know in advance where to put my frigates.

But, it take a lot of time to do that every turn. 15 airship to recon = ~1 minute per turn. In marathon speed, it's rather tiresome. Do you know a way to automatize that ? Something as simple as "loop recon" would be enough.

You can queue up to 20 actions per unit, you know ?

 

[TheLazyHase]

You can queue up to 20 actions per unit, you know ?

No, I don't know

Thanks.

 

[r_rolo1]

Shift + action you want the unit to make it go to the end of the queue

 

[Lacunaa]

Wouldn't it be more useful to use submarines for that?

 

[TheLazyHase]

Wouldn't it be more useful to use submarines for that?

But, I have no submarine, not even destroyer. More importantly, I need my frigate in big stack (so they are not dispatched too easily), and I have a lot of semi-useless aircraft. So using aircraft to recon and let the naval packed to dispatch invader seem better.

Edit : they are airship, not aircraft. Sorry, I call them "zeppelin" all too often.

 

[NihilZero]

Zeppelin is a muich nicer name than airship.

 

[Khan Quest]

Press & hold Ctrl while clicking each bomber.

Actually, it's the Shift key.