Bomber Ships are a bit too Busted

[kylermannn]

Do bomber ships seem a little too busted to anyone else?

I've been playing a bit recently and it seems like they have way too big of an impact on literally every single game I've played. Someone always ends up having a bomber somewhere in fog of war, and it will completely decimate everything around it until taken care of. You can only uncover fog of war one square at a time, so more often than naught, it will take multiple turns to find it (assuming your units can even survive until then).

I understand that scout ships can counter them pretty well, but map generation doesn't always make it easy to get your scouts where you need them without driving through 4 player's territories.

Also, with how "chokepointy" the maps always are, it's quite easy to get massive shots off with your own bomber ships, and they can completely trivialize the game in many situations.


The game used to have a pretty good balance and feel to it before the update, but recently it feels like I'm either desperately trying to kill enemy bombers or blasting literally everything near me with my own bombers.

I just want to see them toned down quite a bit. They could lose their AOE ability and still be strong.

Thoughts?

(I've mostly playing AI matches with 5 players & crazy difficulty to get 3 stars on each civ)

[blake]

Best way to deal with bombers is by either waiting it out, or by spamming enough ships or bombers of your own.

[kylermannn]

Yes, this is true, but the post was about how strong and impactful they were in pretty much every game that I was playing (back when they first got introduced).

I haven't played the game since their attack was lowered, so maybe things are a bit better now. Dunno.

[blake]

They seem to be alot easier to deal with now so their impact has been lowered, but the AI can still spam them along with catapults which then turns the game into a WW1 simulation.

[JaccK1618]

Honestly feels like rammers are too strong rather than bomber imo