New Unit : E-3 Sentry

[Razorwing]

You're welcome =)

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[pesoloco]

Ok. I have come up with a way to keep land units from taking down the E-3 plane.

Set the E-3 plane as an air unit.
Give it the "Submarine" ability.

This will make it virtually "invisible" to enemy land units, unless there is an enemy ship nearby that can see submarines. Because their are no default land units that can see submarines, this is a good disguise.

 

[papajohns]

how are ground units taking out air units?

 

[pesoloco]

The way the the game works, air units have no defense against land units. This is seen when land units conquer a city (the planes are destroyed)

Giving the plane submarine ability makes it so the land units can't "see" them. They wont attack what they dont see. However if you have other land units in the same square as your plane, they may attack and if they kill all the land units there, your plane will go down

 

[papajohns]

hang on..... so your talking about the scenario where they take over the city that the e3 is sitting in..... cuz theres no other way they can destroy the plane....... during normal moves, the e3 does its recon, the recon happens, and the plane is gone back into the city...... theres no other way any ground unit can kill it unless we are talking about city squares....


if thats the case, i think its suppose to take over the plane, the plane is parked in the city, if the city falls, the plane belongs to the new invader..

 

[pesoloco]

This unit is an air unit that can move independent of cities just like any other unit. It is not immobile like the other planes in the game, and does not automatically return back to the city after recon.

The way it works is like this:
- the plane is an air unit
- the plane can move around just like any other land unit (except it can fly over water

When you have it set up like this, you can fly your plane outside the city. If you do recon, it will return back to its current map square. You still can use re-base to send it back to a city with an airport. If it is outside a city and it is attacked by a land unit, the land unit will automatically destroy the plane.

This is why you need the "Submarine" flag. It will prevent the land units from seeing and attacking the E-3.

 

[The Art of War]

Originally posted by Scipio Africanu
Just to let you know this unit looks more like the E-2 Hawkeye, which was the model used between 1950's - 1970's. The E-3 is obviously like the Boeing 737/767 series. looks like a good unit for the end of the industrial age.


, Actually, all US Carrier battle groups use the E-2C Hawkeye today. The E-3 is ground based, USAF. Also, the French use the E-2C off their new carrier, the FNS Charles De Gaulle. Anyway, looks nice

 

[papajohns]

ah.....wow..didnt know u could make the plane mobile..and it doesnt crash at end of turn if it doesnt make it back to the city like in civ2? mm..that gives it the ability to stay anywhere in the world for any amount of time...thats not fair.

 

[The Art of War]

Civ isn't fair! (just jokes, just jokes, no anger)

If it was, I wouldn't have died from a musketman attack on my modern armor...

 

[pesoloco]

Originally posted by papajohns
ah.....wow..didnt know u could make the plane mobile..and it doesnt crash at end of turn if it doesnt make it back to the city like in civ2? mm..that gives it the ability to stay anywhere in the world for any amount of time...thats not fair.

It is my understanding that these planes are used for very long flights and missions so perhaps not returning to base all the time is more realistic?

 

[PC Commander]

How can you make air units go on land and sea with out going back to citys?

 

[PC Commander]

Never Mind i know how to now

 

[pesoloco]

Originally posted by PC Commander
How can you make air units go on land and sea with out going back to citys?

For those who don't know. Set the unit as an AIR unit. Then take the immobile flag off.

 

[pesoloco]

I was thinking of renaming this unit as the E-2 Hawkeye, (see page 2 of this thread)

It does resembled this plane more

I have come up with a new design for e-3 sentry plane:
lemme know what ya'll think:

 

[spirithiker]

This unit looks a lot more realistic than the other. They both look great!!

 

[pantlesscommy]

the E-2C is based off the COD aircraft (carrier onboard delivery)
the E-3 is a boeing 707 or 727 airframe.
there are also new awacs airframes based on the boeing 767.

on a side note, i really like the way aircraft worked in civ2. in civ3 i never use them because they cant kill and my armies outpace them. they cant keep up with my modern armor, if they had more range it would be awesome.