Sadly with the absence of a carriers abilty to carry bombers, bombers r now next to uselss. Any enemy half way across the map is unreachable for air attacks from bombers!! Is there any way round this? other than capturing a city? i was hoping airfields might have been an option and unlike civ3 u could build them on friendy soil as a way around this , but alas not. Otherwise i think this game rocks the best civ by far.
bombers r uselss
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LogicSequence
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Zalcron said:
Sign an Open Borders treaty with a nation next to your enemy and rebase your bombers in their cities... like the real world
Topics like these are useless (or usually are). If enemy is so far, you'll have to get some sort of bridgehead before you can bring bombers into bear. Perhaps your enemy has a neighbor you can make open borders treaty with and then park your bombers in his cities.
logical_psycho
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It is very useful. They do collateral damage to all units, which is very useful to easily take a city. You think the USA flew their bombers back and forth from Miami to Iraq? Also a runway on a carrier is way too short for a bomber to take off, so it makes sense that it isn't possible.
I'm playing a map with 2 continents and they are so far apart that even with my neighbors I can't reach that continent. I have only one city there which is too small to build them so there is no way I can move my bombers there.
It just seems unrealistic, modern bombers can travel huge distances.
It just seems unrealistic, modern bombers can travel huge distances.
The Last Conformist
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Clarify a thing for someone who doesn't have the game yet; there are no carriers? 
Really?
Really?
Dida
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werdna said:
You can't re-base your bombers to that little city???
Also, bombers become useless once your enemy has a good number of fighters. I have noticed that the AI always build tons of defensive units, like fighters and infantry, but never build tanks.
Nevermor09
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I have been playing a minor world war with two continents. And i used carriers and fighters, yes they dont have collateral, but i thought, better than nothing. Then when i got the beachhead i brought in the bombers. Never knew i could rebase bombers in friends cities. hmm changes the strategical aspect a bit. But my point being fighters are better than in civ 3. they can do well in preparing a naval invasion. and of course u can bring along some bb with collateral promo.
Edit : Been fighting chinese on warlord now for a while. they have plenty of tanks
Edit : Been fighting chinese on warlord now for a while. they have plenty of tanks
holy king
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no there are, but they can only carry fighters
Dida said:
how do I rebase in that city? It's out of the range of the grid. Does rebase have to be inside the grid? I thought so, I never tried outside.
Jets do nothing against stealth-bombers. I have 10 doing intercept and yet every turn enemy destroys improvements next to my city.
The Last Conformist
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OK. Thanks.
Harbringer
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I personallycant wait until I get to bombers becuase of there usefullness. They replace artillary completelyand have better range and can induce collateral damage without having to worry about enemy ground units, all you have to worry about is enemy fighters.
logical_psycho
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The Last Conformist said:Clarify a thing for someone who doesn't have the game yet; there are no carriers?
There are carriers, but you can only use them to transport fighter planes, which makes sense. (and you can still do an air strike / bombardment with those)
Dida
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There is no more missles in this game. ICBMs cannot be moved I think. And as for rebasing, I don't think you need to rebase within the grid. I have rebased my bombers outside of the grid,and they worked just fine.
Artillaries are now completely useless. it is good to sacrifice some of them to destroy enmey SODs, but other than that, they are completely lame.
Artillaries are now completely useless. it is good to sacrifice some of them to destroy enmey SODs, but other than that, they are completely lame.
logical_psycho said:
Try telling that to General Dolittle
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/features/trvideo.htm
Carrier capacity should be increased, and they should be allowed to carry bombers.
Nevermor09
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Dolittle is all fine. But there is no way in hell u are gonna make a stealth bomber take off from the deck of a carrier. Or a lancaster for that matter.
