Firebombing

[crimson238]

I'm not sure if this has been disussed before; i'm about to leave work so i havn't the time to look.
Anyway, here's my idea:
Firebombing cities.

I'd liek to option to fire bomb a city, and watch it burn. This is more so a graphic aesthetic that I'd liek to see enamy cities buring once i firebomd them, But i think that firebombing should also allow the death of more than one pop point as well as more than one improvement (Modified by a firestation and police station [perhaps a new improvement, municipllity services or some such name to represent both a police force and a firefighting force.])

Ideas suggestions?

 

[Commander Bello]

@crimson238:
Seems I again will have to reject one of your ideas
How would you determine, when a bombardment has to be a fire bombardment? Would it require another unit (fire artillery)? Would you have the option for artillery kind units to switch between explosive and fire ammunition?

And after all: how would you make the AI handle this addition? This always is the main problem: some ideas may sound nice, but if they would only benefit the human player there is no point in adding them.

 

[crimson238]

Well i was thinking of it as just a type of attack, as in the percison stike now implemented with the stealth bombers.
As far as the AI, they would handle it as they would nuclear weapons, as fire bombing a whoel city had the same type of reprocussions. This really wouldn't be a hard feature to stick in the game, the basic logic for it seems to be present in Civ III

 

[Lockesdonkey]

What I was thinking:

1. It should be a special type of bombing, as precision bombing is
2. Only certain types of unit can firebomb
3. It destroys a significant fraction of all improvements kills a certain percentage of citizens
4. It gives you terrible rep.

 

[crimson238]

My thoughts exactly Lokesdonkey

 

[silver 2039]

The whole world however should'nt declare war on you if you firebomb a city as they do when you nuke one.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Shouldn't be as bad as nuking, they won't declare war, but it will be a rep hit. A big one. Worse than using ROP to attack.

 

[crimson238]

Yeah, i'd not want to ehowle world declaring war just for Firebombing a city.. But yeah, definitly a rep hit. Further, perhaps all the civs of the same culture group would be a bit more angered towards you than those of differing culture groups (the whole us. vs them thing they rant about in my anthropology classes.)

 

[Dida]

Well, instead of firebombing, some aircrafts can just have 'carpet bombing' ability. We assumne this includes using fire.

 

[crimson238]

Carpet Bombing seems kind've lacking in it's intensity though Dida. But, so long as it's in cIV somewhere i'd be happy.