Carrier vs Cities?

[Umbral Reaver]

I haven't had the opportunity to check yet, but since the carrier is has no ranged attack, is it able to take coastal cities (after sufficient bombardment from gunboats, of course)?

 

[Ravellion]

I haven't had the opportunity to check yet, but since the carrier is has no ranged attack, is it able to take coastal cities (after sufficient bombardment from gunboats, of course)?

It has no melee attack either.

 

[Umbral Reaver]

Dang. I'd never actually tried to attack with one. I just saw it had a combat strength and no ranged strength.

 

[Lynneiah]

The melee property for carriers is used for defence (when another melee unit is attacking it). It cannot attack itself.

 

[Tomice]

AFAIK no sea unit can take cities, you need land units. LEV units can attack from water without penalty, but only the tier 4 cavalry units of each affinity are melee LEV units.

 

[ahawk]

Yeah, there really should have been a melee naval unit line. Especially because there actually are things that add to naval units (at least one quest, Observatory based, I think, adds naval movement or something).

As it is, just use embarked units if need be, or, as someone suggested, wait until you have hovering units if it's a strong city already.