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You're surprised a pikeman destroyed your B2?
You did realize you were attacking Chuck Norris right?
You did realize you were attacking Chuck Norris right?
You're surprised a pikeman destroyed your B2?
You did realize you were attacking Chuck Norris right?
Have you never played a flight sim?
You just try to aim preciselly at the pikeman with your cannons, but it's difficult cause he is so small... you open fire.... ratatatatta... but somehow you keep missing him... and while fine-tuning the crosshairs on his helmet, you fail to notice the ground is approaching fast, neither you check your altitude and BAM - you crash into the ground.
... The pikeman could even taunt you to make this happen!
... The pikeman could even taunt you to make this happen!
I don't agree with the comparison. A queen isn't worth 100 pawns. A queen is worth roughly 9 pawns and it's not a stretch to say a pawn can take down a queen since they both have access to each other. Whereas a stealth bomber operates miles above the earth and there's no possible way a pike can be thrown that far even if the guy could see it.
I don't think it's a huge deal but there should be some sort of rule that after so many technological advances a unit is unable to counterattack another unit. Or at least unable to counterattack flying units unless you have researched rifling.
For the record, chess does not pretend to be realistic.
Have you ever seen a stone tower moving across the landscape?
For the record, chess does not pretend to be realistic.
Have you ever seen a stone tower moving across the landscape?
easy: pilot error/malfunction/freak weather causes crash into moutain while on the mission to blow up pike man
Random events and disasters aren't included in Civ5. Wild turns of imagination seem out of place with the rest of the game's pretty deterministic style.
Croatian "AA force" armed with AK-47s shoot down two YU army training fighter planes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3PgFW7uBAQ
If you would read the description of the video you posted, you would learn that the first was hit with a shoulder-fired SAM and the second by AAA fire.
Neither of which are AK47s.
During the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in the 1980's, the Soviet air force, particularly the helicopter's, ran amok over the Afgani troops, who had no way of fighting back. Then the US started to covertly send the Afgani rebels, Stinger missiles and other hand held AA. Suddenly the Soviets started to lose helicopters to those "Pikemen". It is not a "Pike" that brought damage to that stealth bomber, it is those few temporary Stingers sent in by another foreign power. They remain a "pikeman" but used those advanced weapons that one time to damage the bombers.
During the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in the 1980's, the Soviet air force, particularly the helicopter's, ran amok over the Afgani troops, who had no way of fighting back. Then the US started to covertly send the Afgani rebels, Stinger missiles and other hand held AA. Suddenly the Soviets started to lose helicopters to those "Pikemen". It is not a "Pike" that brought damage to that stealth bomber, it is those few temporary Stingers sent in by another foreign power. They remain a "pikeman" but used those advanced weapons that one time to damage the bombers.