Useless things

[Mesopotamia]

Originally posted by zebomba

Stealth fighter: useless bc their roll is being filled by stealth bombers. I know, it's realistic as they're right now, but too much realism disrupts gameplay. Besides, they could act as fighters very well.

AEGIS Cruiser: In present day, they are the queens of the sea along with carriers. In game, good to spot subs only, but battleships can beat subs even if they're attacked. Bad bombardment value, loses to battleship 1vs1.

The stealth fighter really should have been implemented as the F-22.

And the Aegis Cruiser can carry cruise missiles--don't forget that.

 

[zebomba]

I still think cruise missiles are crappy as they are right now. They are expensive, and I'd rather go for artillery, a tank or 1/2 battleship than getting it.
If they had a range of 8 it wouldn't hurt, since they're useless on offense right now. Too expensive you know.
AEGIS: useless bc cruises are useless as well.

 

[King Gil]

All the things you pointed are quite useless. But I'm disapointe with battleships and bombers, wich beside armour, could win the game in CIV 2. They became weak and marginal weapons. The victory in CIV 3 is based on modern armour.

 

[MajorFallout]

Originally posted by zebomba
I still think cruise missiles are crappy as they are right now. They are expensive, and I'd rather go for artillery, a tank or 1/2 battleship than getting it.
If they had a range of 8 it wouldn't hurt, since they're useless on offense right now. Too expensive you know.
AEGIS: useless bc cruises are useless as well.

I totally disagree with you about Cruise Missiles. They're absolutely great at annilhating naval boats & transports - I mean, what would you want, 8 lots of units landing on your beachs or a wreck at the bottom of the sea, BEFORE it landed it's units.

My best method of destroying any ship is to attack it first with artillery and then sink it with 1 or 2 CMs. Anyway CMs don't have any upkeep costs, once you've used it. And, you only need to stock pile about 10 of them at a time, and they're quite quick to produce as well.

 

[MummyMan]

The Musketeer really sucks, end of story. It would be useful maybe if the artillery could kill units wholly and effectively, and if they could capture cities like in civ2.

 

[darious001]

F-15 do suck pretty bad. No offense to those who like them, but to me, all planes suck. I mean come on, I thought they provided some defense to a city, but no, one unit can take everyone of them out, and when bombing they can't do **** but weaken the targeted units. Their appeal just really isn't all there.

 

[MTheil3508]

They have new cruise missles now such as the JASSM. It costs under $400,000 where the Tomohawk costs about $1 million.

Maybe they should update or upgrade the cruise missle and definitly extend the range.

 

[Bismarck]

Coastal fortress is garbage.

I almost never use offshore platforms, recycling plants, or mass transits. They don't qualify as completely useless, though.