I mean, during WW2 the British Fighters would travel far outside the range of their home city to attack incoming bombers.

Then again, many people have explained these bomber attacks as a year long campaign which you take small amount of losses each mission which adds up to the destruction of the unit.

Also, should there be radar stations to detect incoming air groups. And a new order for fighter aircraft to intercept any airgroup within range. What about a SAM city improvement? This would do the same thing as a fighter intercept, but have a limited number of shots per turn.

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- Biddles

quote: Originally posted by Biddles on 10-27-2000 11:43 PM Interesting idea. So are you suggesting to group a fighter with a bomber in a kind of air army to repel enemy fighter attacks?

Exactly. We stack Aegis crusiers with destroyers because their functions compliment each other. Aegis versus air attack, destroyer to detect those subs.

Bombers and Fighters can compliment each other also. The strength of one unit protects the weakness of the other.

It's just the Civ II rules do not allow this, obviously. Unless you are the computer --it can leave anything up in the air as long as it wants(cruise missles, nuclear missiles, bombers, etc)

So, the way I see it...we have bomber/fighter squadrons, maybe they are like this because formations of like units are allowed...and in the cities, fighters. I guess for each move an enemy squadron of air units makes there is a chance the fighters will scramble to attack them. This is based on the obvious, like has the fighter moved, and any advantages such as radar stations.

I think this would prove to mirror realism well, as a fighter is only able to scrammble to attack one squadron each turn.

SAM missile batteries I suppose would simply increases the attack/defense of all of you and your allies air units within a certain radius of the city.