fighters on carriers?

[Traveler]

What's the point of putting fighters on carriers? You can't set up a cap. You can't deploy them except of your own teritory. You can't put them on alert.

All you can use them for is as weak bombers?

[zxcvbob]

Won't they intercept AI aircraft? (if the AI ever used aircraft (hey, at least they sometimes build them now))

[Traveler]

There's no intercept option button. Does it just do it automaticly? Will it defend adjacent units like in CivV?

[zxcvbob]

I've been reading about it. It has to be deployed to do an intercept (then it's automatic), but it can be deployed over neutral territory as well as your own. Cannot be deployed over enemy territory.

[Traveler]

引用自 zxcvbob：

I've been reading about it. It has to be deployed to do an intercept (then it's automatic), but it can be deployed over neutral territory as well as your own. Cannot be deployed over enemy territory.

I can't get it to deploy over water neutral or my own. Worked so much better in CivV.

[Paulytnz]

Im pretty sure when the game originally shipped there was a way for them to be on alert. Actually now that I think about it just making them sleep they appeared to be alert as they used to circle the aircraft carrier.

Yet this stopped some time ago after one of the patches and now all you see is one lag behind when the carrier moves and then it lands on it again.

As usual no clue from the devs here about much at all...

[Lemurian1972]

引用自 zxcvbob：

I've been reading about it. It has to be deployed to do an intercept (then it's automatic), but it can be deployed over neutral territory as well as your own. Cannot be deployed over enemy territory.

They can be deployed over enemy territory (if you're at war). What stinks is you can't deploy them over friendly/allied territory. It's a pain to fight a war of liberation or protectorate war when you can't fly over friend's land.

[Traveler]

Wow, reaaing all these posts it seems like how the game doen't work varies from player to player.

[blkbutterfly]

So far in Civ VI I've never had to use carriers. Not for bombers. Not for fighters.

In fact only once (since Summer '17 patch) did the AI even build any bombers to attack my units. In Civ V after flight, air units were a must. They're considerably nerfed in Civ VI.

[Lemurian1972]

引用自 -DI- Blkbutterfly：

So far in Civ VI I've never had to use carriers. Not for bombers. Not for fighters.

In fact only once (since Summer '17 patch) did the AI even build any bombers to attack my units. In Civ V after flight, air units were a must. They're considerably nerfed in Civ VI.

Nerfed implied it was intentional. The fact is they haven't worked the problems of AI district building and use to the point where it can reliably make and use air units.

The only thing I use carriers for is hopscotch if I want to get planes across an ocean. Even then I just park them at re-base range and hop planes across. The micro management of that annoys me a lot though so I almost never bother apart from 1-2 test games every update to see if the AI has gotten any better with aircraft.

If I were making the game, I'd have treated carriers and airfields like trading posts, where if one is in range it resets the re-base range of a plane so you can fly past it without being forced to land. Or at minimum create mid-air refueling tankers as a support unit that I deploy off a carrier or airfield to extend the range of passing planes.

[megachill freeze]

the ai does attack units with aircraft i can guarantee since i was planning naval invasion on an ennemy but since i didnt excpet it to use aircraft i was wrong. all my navy was destry simply by the ennemy AI bombers so i like this change as well but carriers are of no use except if you play on large maps with alot of water they might be helphul