Stealth Fighter or Stealth Bomber?

[Naval Freak]

yes but today it's hard to carpet-bomb without b-52s. wwii bombers had self-protection, though (MGs). todays bombers always need fighter escort unless there on kamikazi missions.
if u want to carpet-bomb today the best (possibly only) way is to use nuclear weapons.

like he uss nimitz's deck could support/refuel/launch/recover a b-52. hehehehe

 

[Henry_X]

like he uss nimitz's deck could support/refuel/launch/recover a b-52.

Launch yes, like in the movie "Pearl Harbor".

 

[Romanus]

In Pearl Harbor, the bombers were the B25. Much smaller than a B52. Tha largest plane to ever land and takeoff from a carrier deck was a C130......there are pictures floating around the web of it.

I dont think its hard at all to 'carpet bomb' with the B52. First you gain air superiority, knock out as much of the enemy AA threat as you can and employ the use of Awacs and ECM aircraft like the EA6B and the like.

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by Turner_727
I always send a Stealth Fighter first to recon the area. I have found that reconning gives my bombers a better chance of hitting the target. Maybe just superstition, but it works for me. I also use them to take out roads and improvements, where I wouldn't want to 'waste' a bomber turn on a road.

My experience is same as yours, i dont know if it is realy implemented in the game or it is the rng that make me think that.
Nobody else reply on that so ... Does recon mission realy improve bombing accuracy ?

The stealth fighter got a radar according to civilopedia so their recon mission should be improve compare to jet fighter.

Personaly, i use jet fighter and bomber or stealth bomber, because my jet fighter can protect my carrier and can perform bombing to engage ennemy fighter ( so the sky is clear for my bomber).

 

[Romanus]

Tassadar
Not sure why I didnt think of that earlier. I get so focused on building a huge bomber fleet. Defending the homeland is simple....several fighters on cap in each city and a small bomber fleet to soften invaders.

But, when I send carriers to attack the enemy on his own turf, attrition is a problem. I guess you could always load a carrier with fighters, send them in first. That would draw out the enemy cap, and increase the odds of shooting them down.

 

[Tassadar]

Romanus,

Yes it work, ennemy fighter will engage your own jet fighter, but keep supply with jet fighter because they got 4 on defense compare to 8 on attack( air supperiority) so you will loose some of them, but somtime they got promote to elite jet fighter if they kill the interceptor.

 

[Tol]

actually there on the B-52 they don't always need escorts they have a really powerful vulcan cannon on it, very effective and tearing enemys ships apart, as for AA they have chaff that they can release th tear the missiles apart.:tank: