Modern naval combat is borked.

[MattDoyle]

Originally posted by jkp1187
Has anyone found any utility in the naval "patrol" order, that is supposed to intercept enemy ships attempting to pillage resources? I've assigned ships to patrol, but so far, no interceptions have taken place (played 3 games to finish so far). Does this even work?

I have only played one game completely of BTS, and i had a couple of destroyers outside my capital with that order on. The capital had i think 3 or 4 sea food resources, and so i had the destroyers placed out to cover all 4 squares using the patrol option. An enemy ship came in, tried to pillage an empty square (i.e. one that had a food resource but no destroyer, the destroyer was adjacent) and the destroyer next to it laid into it and killed it. However, i think that in the event the enemy brought 2 or 3 ships, that one destroyer would obviously not be sufficient and I think would even go as far as getting itself killed trying to defend the about to be pillaged square.

[Gunter]

I still have to buy Civ IV.....but the first thing that I'll do is to allow a 100% damage to my air vs navy and viceversa....BTW is there any built-in editor to flag this option ala Civ III ?

thanks


P.S. do Firaxians know that warplanes are able to sink ships since before Pearl Harbor years ????? I suggest them to open a war / story book and fix Civ IV . Thanks in advance