[R&F] Cant combine aircraft carriers into fleets/armadas...

[Question]

I have two aircraft carriers, single ones (not fleet/armada) and am trying to combine the two of them into a fleet, but the combine button is simply missing...

I can build fleet/armada carriers from cities but i cant combine the existing ones for some reason.

Anyone know why?

 

[Xur]

Are they both full of airplanes?

 

[Question]

Nope, none of them have any planes.

 

[TomKQT]

I also noticed this. I think carriers are not allowed to form fleets. And airplanes on them have no effect.

 

[blackcatatonic]

I expect this is intentional - after all, why would you want to reduce the number of planes you can carry just to have stronger carriers?

 

[TomKQT]

I expect this is intentional - after all, why would you want to reduce the number of planes you can carry just to have stronger carriers?

Why would you want to reduce the number of attacks just to have a stronger battleship? Yes, there is a big difference, but anyway - carriers act like melee ships and can attack, I even captured a city with a carrier. And when I have Venetian Arsenal and want just 1 carrier (dont need more and dont want the maintenance cost), I would like to combine them.
Btw, it would be nice if carrier fleet had 1 bonus slot and armada 2.

 

[Lily_Lancer]

Why would you want to reduce the number of attacks just to have a stronger battleship? Yes, there is a big difference, but anyway - carriers act like melee ships and can attack, I even captured a city with a carrier. And when I have Venetian Arsenal and want just 1 carrier (dont need more and dont want the maintenance cost), I would like to combine them.
Btw, it would be nice if carrier fleet had 1 bonus slot and armada 2.

In Rise and Fall armandas and fleets cost as much maintainance as 2 or 3 single units actually...

 

[Disgustipated]

You can build aircraft carrier aramadas with a seaport though. I am certain I have done this in one of my recent games. I usually don't bother since carriers don't benefit from fleets/armadas (would be nice if they increased aircraft lots rather than strength), but I had productive cities and late game I tend to only hard build armies and armadas.

 

[TomKQT]

In Rise and Fall armandas and fleets cost as much maintainance as 2 or 3 single units actually...

Oh, really? I wonder if it was intentional.

 

[criZp]

In Rise and Fall armandas and fleets cost as much maintainance as 2 or 3 single units actually...

No, they cost 50% and 100% more than a single unit

 

[Question]

So why can you build fleet/armada carriers but not combine them?

And why dont they get more airplane slots?

 

[TomKQT]

So why can you build fleet/armada carriers but not combine them?

I'm not sure this is true. I think you cannot build them.

 

[SaiH]

No you can't combine two carriers into a fleet, but you definitely can build fleets and armadas. It has been like this for a long time since a previous patch. There are several issues with carriers and planes e.g. you can't deploy fighters based on carriers. Most things are already mentioned in the bug forum.

 

[Disgustipated]

Initially you could deploy fighters, but it was very bugged, and the deploy stayed in place while the carrier moved. They took it out in the first patch since it didn't work.

 

[Disgustipated]

I'm not sure this is true. I think you cannot build them.

Yes you can. I'm not sure why you can't combine them, but I admit I have not tried since Rise and Fall. They come kind of late in the game for me.

 

[warpyg]

I hope they fix air combat in GS, I would like to see this:

1. Allow Carrier Fleets/Armadas to merge carrier units the same way you can other units and allow 4/6 air units in them respectively.

2. Add a new super-carrier unit with double the capacity.

3. Add stealth fighters/bombers for the stealth tech.

 

[Scaramanga]

I feel like they should be combined into fleets and armadas so they don't get sunk right away by submarine armadas that have been hanging around since they were privateers.