Air Superiority?

[VaderFLAG]

I learned the hard way recently that the good AI extends to bombing campaigns as well. The English would relentlessly bomb my infrastructure: roads to luxeries, sending my cities into disorder; roads to resources, crippling my military production; railroads between cities, preventing immediate reinforcements.

I build several fighters and placed them in nearby cities, and set them to Air Superiority... but nada. The bombs kept falling.

Do air superiority missions have to be performed from cities with airports? I didn't have the opportunity to test it out myself.

 

[Anunikoba]

It seems that Air Superiority is broken in the game. A lot of complaints or poping up all over that this feature isn't working at all for us humans.

I can verify that having an airport doesn't make a difference.

 

[Rife]

I saw the same thing. I was the Americans and had no rubber.
My only advantage was the F-15 fighters I built in BIG numbers.
However, he would bomb my cities turn after turn with bomber
after bomber and not one single one ever got shot down.
HOWEVER, he did shoot down the very first bomber I ever sent
to bomb his city with an inferior jet fighter.

Note: he had about 8 bombers on that one city and I had about
4 f-15s on air superiority toward the end. I just don't think it
works. I went back to the book a dozen times but couldn't find
anything I was doing wrong.

 

[Rife]

Oh, and he is right, airports don't help. All of my cities had airports.

 

[Rife]

Oh, and I just sent them a letter. That seems to me like a rather
major thing to NOT be caught in testing.

 

[Grunthex]

Coastal Fortresses appear to be broken the same way, not taking their free shot at passing enemy ships. Anyone confirm/deny this?

 

[miradus]

Coastal fortresses don't work either. Hrmph. The major things we can protect ourselves with don't function. Still, I'm getting my butt kicked by the AI regardless so I can't say this makes THAT much of a difference.

Firaxis has a good history of releasing not just bug-fixes in their patches, but major game enhancements too (ala SMAC). I look forward to what we'll see in the first couple of patches, and may it be soon.

Stupid bombers ... grumble ...

 

[VaderFLAG]

I'm glad it's not just me! I can ditto that coastal fortress issue too - they don't seem to do anything but get destroyed quickly!

 

[Scary Penguin]

I've seen the same thing. Also, I haven't seen any way to provide fighter escorts for my bombers. In my current game, I sent a carrier group to the Russians' continent, placed 4 jet fighters on air superiority, then watched as Catharine shot down each of my bombers without a single fighter scrambling.

On the other hand, she can bomb my cities with impunity, even the cities that have jet fighters set on air superiority.

 

[damunzy]

I wonder if the air superiority problem has to do with the fact that no airplanes/fighters of any kind are listed under the Zone of Control entry in the Civilopedia?
Here are the units that are in my games Civilopedia-Game Concepts: