Has anyone seen a Battleship survive an attach from a destroyer?

[sabo]

I don't know which patch it was but I have not seen a battleship survive an attack from a destroyer for a long time. Every time the AI attacks one of my Battleships I lose.

I'm talking veteran against veteran, I've even seen my elite Battleships lose to a veteran destroyer. I guess except for bombardment purposes building battleships is just a waste of sheilds anymore.

It ain't right. And speaking of which, how many galleys do you usually lose as the romans when attacking a carthage Galley In "Rise of Rome"??

 

[lbhhh]

I have seen my battleships win plenty of battles when being attacked by destroyers. You must have had a run of bad luck. OTOH Roman galley are terrible in RoR, they do always lose vs Carthage. Of course, I was playing as Carthage so that was fine by me

 

[Toaae]

37. I lost 37 galleys to Carthrage last time I played.

 

[The Last Conformist]

My BBs seem to have about a 50% survival ratio when attacked by AI DDs.

 

[Dogmeat]

*Pulls out Civ3 combat calculator*

Battleship Defense: 12 +10%= 13,2
Destroyer Offense: 12

The Battleship has a 55% chance of winning an encounter with a Destroyer when defending..
So blame it on the RNG!

 

[sabo]

Yeah I know it's around 50% so I must really be having some bad luck, because right now I"m running about ZERO %

 

[DoubleT]

Sometimes its down to one thing.....................Luck..

 

[Zardnaar]

I hate naval combat with a passion. My Dromons can't seem to sink Galleys and my Man O Wars are scared of frigates. I always try and redline units 1st now unless I'm desperate.

 

[Jaybe]

For me, battleships win a more appropriate proportion of the time, ...
but I changed their stats!

Destroyer (borrowed from the Pacific conquest) A/D=8/6, HP+1*
Battleship A/D=18/15, HP+2, costs 300 shields [EDIT: and lethal land & sea (sorry, it had been so long I forgot it wasn't standard). /EDIT]

*Since I reduced the destroyer strengths so much, I gave all the post-ironclad naval units one additional hitpoint (HP). Battleship gets one more HP on top of that. Ironclad gets its defense and bombardment strengths reduced to 5.

 

[ReZurrecti0n]

Amazing how somethings go in this game... Great numbers of Archers may take down a Mech even though thier chances are extremly low... But... It's all about luck

 

[rychan]

naval warfare does kind of suck... there's no concept of superior numbers. I can have 20 battleships on a tile trying to knock out improvements, but the AI will dart it's destroyers in and out of its ports every turn killing my battleships 1 at a time. 1 defensive bombard just doesn't seem like enough.

 

[Longasc]

I agree, Battleships are not worth it. They are slow beasts and only good on the offense.

Dida said some time ago: Even Dromons have lethal sea bombardement... BBs not.

Destroyers can win easily against Battleships, they are nearly on even odds!

They have very good chances against Cruisers -> who attacks, wins!

If the BB attacks the destroyer, it will win with a very high chance.

But it is very bad when defending. I say: As Battleships cannot influence land battles much or at all, and their only enemies are other ships and bombers, INCREASE their defence!

They are not the Queens of the Sea, but the Shame of the Ocean right now.

Compared to Carriers, they suck terribly - okay, Carriers cost more all in all.

 

[redhulkz]

give them extra one hp and lethal land + sea