air and espionage missions

[yahmon]

Firaxis has indicated that air missions ill be selectable from a menu at a city, airbase, or carrier whereas espionage missions will have its own screen and the success of spies will depend on experience and if target city has any of your nationals in it (recently conquered by enemy)

Air missions selectable include: reconnaiance (can they detect subs?), patrol (vs. enemy fighter/bombers), attack target, attack specific city building/improvement. Paratroopers? Strategic Bombing? (decrease shield production in target city) hopefully these are additional option.

The only espionage mission alluded to is that great leaders may be assasinated. Hopefully you can no longer buy cities but only troops.

 

[DaEezT]

yes!!!!!
[dance]

That sounds awesome.
Will there be spyplanes now that there are reconnaiance (how is that spelled anyway )missions?

Where do you have that info from?

 

[yahmon]

Reconnaisance (french word I believe)

Info is out there from Firaxis interviews, responses to posts in forums, etc.

Missiles and Nukes will likely be similar to how artillery shells targets in SMAC but with a much longer range obviously.

Not sure what the units will be.. guessing there will be a propeller fighter (spitfire?), jet fighter, jet or propeller bomber (B1 or B52), stealth fighter(F117), stealth bomber (B2), cruise missile (tomahawk?), nuke, apache helicopter, and hopefully a blackhawk transport helicopter which can also be used to spot subs.

Most of these are educated guesses...

 

[Vinc]

Fantastic news!! Great feature

 

[yahmon]

What will air superiority missions do? That was mentioned in the Sid interview on Gamespot today.

 

[spiky82]

hmm...since airstike missions can take care of stuff in the city, may be air superiority missions will hunt down enemy aircrafts and anti-air defense........ Geez I guess I can only say just obvious stuff...need more sleep to get my creativity back