Bombing A City...What Is Actually Happening?

[lungnut]

First Post!

I just saw bombing in action for the first time (I was the only one with flight, btw).

When you bomb a city, what exactly happens to the units inside? I was stack-bombing cities, but I didn't seem to be killing anything. The interface would tell me that I had reduced the defenses of the city by a certain percentage, eventually leading to zero percent (where then my bombers could no longer bomb), but when I marched my units into the city, there would be significant resistance.

Does bombing actually kill anything? Why do I reach a "limit" to how much bombing I can do if there are still enemy military units inside the city?

 

[oyzar]

bombing can either reduce cultural defense or damamge the units inside. It can't actually kill anything though, just reduce the units to half health.

 

[divergence]

There are two different commands you can use to have your bombers attack a city:

<B>ombard: the planes will reduce the city's defense bonus but won't touch the units inside. (Just like bombarding with siege units.)

<S>trike: the planes attack and damage units in the city, although as ozyar said above, they can never kill a unit entirely.

 

[lungnut]

Thanks for the answers, guys!

 

[needsomesleep]

along this line, does anyone think it's strange that they took away the ability of seige units inside a city to bombard the units outside. Now you MUST attack to fire on a stack of units, where as in Civ III (I think) you could bombard units, not just cities. I used to lose navy units becuase of this when I would forget to move them out of range of the city where I was trying to remove the defense bonus. The city would be full of cannons or artilary and would blow the crap out of my ships. Plus, they used to have range. Cats 1, cannon 2, artiliary 3 etc...
I miss Cruse milssles too. Anyone else?