anyone use Helicopters?

[CELTICEMPIRE]

just curious, I rarely use them, but find them useful if I'm "island hopping" or trying to get non-paratrooper units behind enemy lines.

what are your guys' thoughts.

 

[Raliuven]

Wow, I just realized that I've NEVER actually build one - even on accident! How is that even possible?

 

[Smellincoffee]

I've played Civ3 for eight years and I've never used a helo. I think I built one out of curiosity, once, but the range is so low that they're not remotely useful as far as I know. Maybe if their range was extended, or if they could be used to attack (like gunships), they'd be more useful.

 

[Bowsling]

They can be useful if the enemy's capital is not far inland and you are looking to destroy their spaceship.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

They can be useful if the enemy's capital is not far inland and you are looking to destroy their spaceship.

that is sort of how I use them, but I mainly use them in a mod (Playground mod), so it's not like regular game where I have only use them on rare occasions.

 

[creamcheese]

They can be used to land TOWs, but that is really their only bonus over paratroops, you need two units at least for heli transport, 1 for paras. That said, bombers are a much better way of doing most things, just bomb that resource or cut that road, don't bother getting paras killed trying to hold it.

I build them occasionally for fun, to humiliate the AI I guess.

 

[vmxa]

I don't research Adv flight and I had to look it up to realize there are helio's in the game. I thought you guys were talking about civ4.

 

[Bowsling]

Well yes, the use of helicopters is dependent on whether or not a weak AI that you recently pummeled researched advanced flight.

 

[Aabraxan]

I have built them once or twice, but I almost never research Adv. Flight. For my game (usually warmongering), there are better ways to use my beakers and time.

 

[jtb1127]

I never used them in this game or civ 4.

 

[vmxa]

They are fun in IV and are in the upgrade from cavs, so worth doing if the game gets to that point. Have not played 4 in a long time though. Not even installed rught now.

 

[Ataxerxes]

I don't research Adv flight and I had to look it up to realize there are helio's in the game. I thought you guys were talking about civ4.

Reading this discussion that just occurred to me. I've never researched Advanced Flight. They are pretty good in IV and a lot of fun but never seemed worth it in III.

 

[jtb1127]

They are fun in IV and are in the upgrade from cavs, so worth doing if the game gets to that point. Have not played 4 in a long time though. Not even installed rught now.

How does a horse upgrade to a helicopter

 

[PaperBeetle]

Unlike Civ leaders, horses don't live forever. So one day you splash out to replace your horses with helicopters instead of new horses.

It was the AirCav, First of the Ninth, our escorts to the mouth of the Nung river. But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 kilometers ahead. Well, Air Mobile, those boys just couldn't stay put. First of the Ninth was an old cavalry division that had cashed in its horses for choppers, and gone tear-assing around 'Nam, looking for the sht. They've given Charlie a few surprises in their time here. What they were mopping up now hadn't even happened an hour ago.

 

[jtb1127]

Oh that makes sense

 

[Verarde]

Never, ever have used them or paratroopers, except maybe to see what the animations were like. Same with all air units.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Never, ever have used them or paratroopers, except maybe to see what the animations were like. Same with all air units.

so you never build an air force?

 

[Verarde]

Never have needed to. If I did need to, I would. Of course, I'm only on Regent.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Never have needed to. If I did need to, I would. Of course, I'm only on Regent.

I usually play on Monarch and I've never "had" to build an air force, either. I do build lots of bombers, though. They're fun.

 

[jtb1127]

I like them because they're fun too.