MagicKoji Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I was wondering, will the final AI use more of the Air Assets then the current one. I have yet to see the AI build any kind of air assets. Let alone use any of them. I was just wondering... Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 How many games have you played? How long have you played in turns ? I played a game where the AI [sole player] had a biplane whilst I was on Zeppelins. I stomped him turn 95 and he surrendered 96 and I found his economy and expansion was very poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicKoji Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 How many games have you played? How long have you played in turns ? I played a game where the AI [sole player] had a biplane whilst I was on Zeppelins. I stomped him turn 95 and he surrendered 96 and I found his economy and expansion was very poor. I've played about 10 games. all the way into the 250 turn ranges... and I have yet to see an air asset being used by the AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hmmm. Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N3rull Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I actually saw an AI city with 6 Tactical bombers class 2 in it!!!! :-O Of course, I've never seen them take off ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brit Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 I was wondering, will the final AI use more of the Air Assets then the current one. I have yet to see the AI build any kind of air assets. Let alone use any of them. I was just wondering... Thank you. Yes, the AI needs to be using more air attacks. I haven't looked at that problem specifically, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John DiFool the 2nd Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Air recon is also sorely lacking (as in nonexistent). Even if at peace with someone I need those long-range scouts (transport planes have the longest range) to scout out likely avenues of approach for possible backstabbing task forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N3rull Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 There are spy planes for the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Following the last up-date my computer that could play EoS cannot [yet] so I cannot look at the game. My first reaction is that spy planes are very specialist and very expensive in the real world whereas maritime patrol planes are cheap. To return to WW2 the planes like the Sunderland, Emily, PY4b and Condor were used for reconaissance [and sometimes attacking]. The Sunderland had a range of 1800 miles and carried more MG's than any plane during the war.The Condor was the first plane to fly commercially non-stop across the Atlantic and is implicated in the destruction of 330000tons of shipping. The Emily had a range of 4400miles!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_200 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuF4wGkHA5g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_H8K http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland Recon over enemy territory required very fast or highflying planes like Mosquitoes, Spitfirs, and Lightnings. Completely different from the maritime planes. In 1939 Flying Officer Maurice Longbottom was among the first to suggest that airborne reconnaissance may be a task better suited to fast, small aircraft which would use their speed and high service ceiling to avoid detection and interception. Although this seems obvious now, with modern reconnaissance tasks performed by fast, high flying aircraft, at the time it was radical thinking. As a result, fighters such as the British Spitfire and Mosquito and the American P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang were adapted for photo-reconnaissance during World War II. Such craft were stripped of weaponry, painted in sky camouflage colours to make them difficult to spot in the air, and often had engines modified for higher performance at very high altitudes (well over 40,000 feet). Early in the war the British developed a warming system to allow photographs to be taken at very high altitudes. The collection and interpretation of such photographs became a considerable enterprise. One site claims that the British, at their peak, flew over 100 reconnaissance flights a day, yielding 50,000 images per day to interpret. Similar efforts were taken by other countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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