you cant fly jet fighters across the ocean anymore?

[veritechfan]

you cant fly jet fighters across the ocean anymore?

[Mansen]

Aircraft carriers.

[veritechfan]

ya i had built a bunch of fighters thinking i could fly them over. if i had known the change i wouldve just built bombers instead.

[Mercutio]

You can rebase them IIRC

[warrickbartley]

that sucks

[veritechfan]

it was kind of silly to start off with but whatever right?

[katzenkrimis]

What are you talking about.

I just rebased a Biplane across an ocean last night.

From one city to another.

Then deployed it.

[veritechfan]

you used to be able to keep running new fly over missions and the area of effect would move with the air unit so you used to be able to keep repostioning the unit. basically fly it around the globe without a base or carrier.

[Paulytnz]

Originally posted by veritechfan:

you used to be able to keep running new fly over missions and the area of effect would move with the air unit so you used to be able to keep repostioning the unit. basically fly it around the globe without a base or carrier.

That sounds like an exploit or mod of some kind. Even in civ 5 they had a certain range they could go, even when rebasing. For huge maps you pretty much ALWAYS needed a carrier.

[veritechfan]

ya i get why they closed it.
just i had made a bunch thinking i could fly them over he ocean and then couldnt.
if id known of the change id have just made bombers.
fighters are kind of lame now.

[Paulytnz]

Originally posted by veritechfan:

ya i get why they closed it.
just i had made a bunch thinking i could fly them over he ocean and then couldnt.
if id known of the change id have just made bombers.
fighters are kind of lame now.

It's actually the other way around in this game - Bombers suck.

Fighters are average against units. Bombers just plain suck for anything except cities and even then ships and Siege are better.

[veritechfan]

really? seem to work fine vs cities. seige are great but have to keep up with the attackers and usually cant.
fighters are too hard to move around now.
hope we get strategic bombing fighterrs back.
and paratroopers. and maybe engineers that can build runways.

[Name Lips]

In real life, are bombers used for anti-personnel? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think they're mainly used to destroy cities/buildings. It would make sense to me if we could use bombers to damage districts.

[veritechfan]

oh i thought they could hit districts.
bombers are used against personnel and civilians all the time irl.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Name Lips:

In real life, are bombers used for anti-personnel? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think they're mainly used to destroy cities/buildings. It would make sense to me if we could use bombers to damage districts.

Many kinds of bombs - Just as many examples of bombs used to hit people as there are ones for buildings and installations.

[Paulytnz]

Originally posted by Name Lips:

In real life, are bombers used for anti-personnel? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think they're mainly used to destroy cities/buildings. It would make sense to me if we could use bombers to damage districts.

2 words:

Vietnam - Napalm.