Stealth Fighters

[GeneralMeng]

they are utterly useless, you might as well pay twice the amount for over 3x the firepower (steath bomber)

 

[bigFRANK]

"Ive got about a dozen in my current game only just used them over the weekend operationally and have to say I am not impressed.

Advantages I can see;
Longer recon/strike capability than jet fighter.
Send it on a precision strike mission. (Precision strike my ass, you don’t get a choice of targets even).
Use it to shoot down fighters over a target area (send it to strike/bomb and if intercepted it usually wins).

Disadvantages:
Cant be used for air supremacy.
Is much shorter range than a stealth bomber.
Is fairly useless in the strike role. "



What about precision strike ?
Is it really working? If it do then stealth fighters could be considered in case space victory toggled off or I have no uranium and require a war to get it.

In civilopedia it's said that precision strike destroys buildings, if it can destroy factories with a good chance then some stealth fighters can be built for that specific task, or to destroy all buildings before the bombers arrive to destroy the units.

I didn't actually try them as getting the spaceship up was more important to me, all patrs prebuilt the last part was constructed the same turn as the required tech was researched. But may be jokeslayer plays with space race off?

As I said in the original, precision strike you don’t get a choice of what the bombers/fighters hit, if you did it would be useful, probably something that could be modded in (stealth attack like subs (don’t know if that would work on cities though)). Stealth fighters prime use for me is recon; would I build for that purpose on its own? Not unless I am playing on a huge map and Jets can’t give me the recon range.

 

[Brainiac18]

Yes, useless. But I still make ~1 if my game takes me future era conquests, just for having complete army