Does the CPU ever use Carriers?

[JohnRM]

I have just noticed after playing this game for so long that I cannot recall ever seeing a CPU Civ Carrier unit. Do they use them at all?

 

[WackenOpenAir]

Luckilly my CPU uses something like 70W of energy and a big cooler to disperse that energy.
Never seen a CPU that uses carriers before....:s

 

[Theoden]

i haven't ever seen the AI have carriers besides in WWII in pacific.

 

[YNCS]

I've only twice seen the AI use aircraft.

 

[Tomoyo]

I've seen an AI fleet of four carriers before. Sunk'em all.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Lots of. On Deity, this is pretty common. One of the few things the AI does know how to use .

 

[The Last Conformist]

Yup. "Luckily", its target selection for onboard aircraft still sucks.

 

[tR1cKy]

Lots of. On Deity, this is pretty common. One of the few things the AI does know how to use .

Exactly. Never seen before moving to emperor. Last deity game the damn babylonians had lots of them. And they won by culture domination

 

[The Last Conformist]

I've seen an AI Carrier on Warlord ...

 

[Tomoyo]

I've seen one on Chieftain.... in 2550AD...

 

[tR1cKy]

I've seen one on Chieftain.... in 2550AD...

You played the game for 500 more turns after retirement?!?

 

[Tearor]

you can with a modified game. create one with the conquests editor and set the turns to maximum amount per turn. and set it to 1000 turns.

 

[fishpimp]

I've seen them on Warlord a once or twice.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I remember seeing(and sinking ) a couple of AI Carriers in my games. They are quite rare, but when the AI does use them, they can be quite annoying.

 

[Shadow2097]

I see them almost every game that I play where the AI gets into the modern era. In the game I'm playing at the moment as the Greeks, the Americans maintain a fleet of 4 carriers. They're always heavily escorted (minimum two destroyers and two Aegis Cruisers) and after I receive word that the Americans have declared war on somebody, my nuclear subs watch as they sortie the entire group out of their ports and head straight for enemy territory. About the only thing I can't confirm is whether or not they actually carry bombers or fighters.

The one time I was at war with the Americans, I located the city which had all four carriers and on the turn I declared war, launched an amphibious assault and sent their fleet to meet Davy Jones
-Shadow

 

[Shadow Phoenix]

emmmmm....year 3000, i just clicked lemme play a few more turns, and the Iraquis buildid 40+ carriers...i watched in horror when my 20 flaks tried to shoot them down. welll after watching that for 30 min i turned off my computer

 

[MarineCorps]

DOn't recall ever seeing any in any of my games.

 

[Tomoyo]

You played the game for 500 more turns after retirement?!?

'Twas my first game. Global warming was horrible.

 

[Tearor]

mine was worse. i nuked the world and killed everyone. i sparked a nuklear war and got us all killed. nothing was left afterword. the litle sun was a very dark red and 20 tiles changed each turn. thats what firing 20 nukes between all civs does to the world.

 

[cidknee]

i played a save game that someone had on here and well he had TONS of icbms...and only 1 of the 4 remaining civs had carriers... but tons of em. i think i had close to 400 nukes... and well lets say the chinese got in my way and the greeks ( who had a bout 10 nukes) didnt like em either... and well i was gonna nuke all teh chinese and greeks and leave just me and the egypians, who were building carriers and well the greeks beat me to it... he nailed the chinese and one of the cities that I had taken over from the chinese... well i let the nukes fly... no more greeks, chinese or egyptians... i was all alone.. except for 4 chinese carriers and 1 egyptian carrier... they didnt last long