HOW THE HELL DO YOU CRACK CITY DEFENSES???????

[macoy007]

So....I'm going up against a city with 174 defense shield and for the love of me I can't break them. I mean I've thrown everything I have on them and barely making 5% damage.

So far 15 Jet run, 4 arty, 2 battleship, 4 sub strike and barely denting those F@$&ers.
WTH I'm i doing wrong???.........Sigh...I'm about to go Nuclear on them..Gah!!!

[Corgisaurus]

You have your answer already. Go Nuclear. Otherwise make sure you're actually besieging the city and not letting it recover health and it will eventually fall given how Combat Strength weakens proportionately to health. I usually swarm cities relentlessly with over 20 Bombers. It's slow but gets the job done nicely.

[Leon Declis]

There are dedicated anti-city units; those can take anti-defence upgrades. If that's not working, destroy all the farms and such around the city, and wait for it to have rebellions to do the work for you.

Or ignore the city all together.

[Grzemek]

Prebuild Siege Towers

/any problems ever with sieging

[macoy007]

What you want me to besiege them?...Come on!!! with all that firepower being thrown at them I should be bringing the houses down. ..I find it ridiculous that I'm barely doing any damage. It's just ridiculous.

[broughsie]

Yeah, cos as Solteria said, beseiging prevents recovery which is why you're not making any headway, just plop mech infantry and modern armors and fortify until healed until you're ready to take the city.

[katzenkrimis]

If their defense is that high,

Then you should not only be using battleships that have all the district defense promotions, but they should also be upgraded to Cruisers by now.

I've never seen a game where the enemy had 174 defense and I was so useless to not have Cruisers by then.

Also, two battleships isn't enough. You need at least three in every game.

Four is even sweeter.

Complete destruction of any city in a few minutes.

But you need those district defense promotions.

[RiverFish]

Spam promoted (rocket) artillery. You should have 3 range and fire-after-movement on all of them. Stack them with generals and rotate. Cover all land tiles adjacent to the city with modern armour. Get more bombers. If they're not regenerating, they'll eventually fall.

[Sinjet]

Siege the city, it then can't repair

[zxcvbob]

In my game, I'm a dozen techs ahead. I've already won a science victory, now one more turning to get a domination victory. Delhi is far inland, so I can't reach it with my promoted battleships and cruisers (actually, they are all cruiser fleets now.) I don't recall exactly the city strength, but I think it's 122. The city is surrounded by mech infantries (one of which has a battering ram), modern armor corps, and a medic/machinegun. I have 2 rocket artillery and 3 jet bombers pounding on the city and just barely making any progress. I attacked the city once with a full-health mechanized infantry and battering ram and it died instantly.

I'm about to retreat and nuke the city, then go back in and take it. I guess It'll be good practice dealing with fallout.

I can't imagine 174 defense.

[Duck from State Farm]

Originally posted by macoy007:

So....I'm going up against a city with 174 defense shield and for the love of me I can't break them. I mean I've thrown everything I have on them and barely making 5% damage.

So far 15 Jet run, 4 arty, 2 battleship, 4 sub strike and barely denting those F@$&ers.
WTH I'm i doing wrong???.........Sigh...I'm about to go Nuclear on them..Gah!!!

174 defense ? damn, Battleships are in no way or shape ever going to crack a 174 defense City, would be best to upgrade them to missile cruisers. maybe Rocket arty spam and jet bomber spam, and if you are still struggling to take the city, just nuke it but make sure you don't have any units near the city.