Airlifts

[defrancoj]

Hi.

Anyone know of any work done on the likelihood of an airlift being shot down?

Thanks.

[our_man]

Something I've always wondered too, especially whether it takes into account the number of fighters in intercept range.

[maximus4]

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[Peaster]

This was discussed briefly in a GOTM spoiler at CFC (#60, page 2). A strong player ("golem") wrote:

"If you are at war fighters are the problem - if AI has some fighters around, they usually shotdown your transport. I suppose it depends on their number too - in some games I have about 50 percent success with delivering, but sometimes I have no chance - too much fighters was around."

From the context, I think "transport" means "airlift".

Another player wrote that the odds have never been analyzed. I thought somebody else said the odds don't depend on the number of enemy planes (but I can't find the quote... so maybe I dreamed it).

I dunno. I don't airlift often, but feel over 50% of mine get shot down when I ignore the warning, even if the AI has very few planes nearby.

[defrancoj]

My most recent game was on a gigamap, and the game seemed very sensitive to the specific location of the destination city (source city was generally on a different continent, far away from enemy fighters). I could airlift units to cities on a different part of the continent without even getting the interception warning. Sometimes these cities wouldn't even be that far away from the first attempted destination.

[Elephant]

There may be a "range" factor from the city that the fighters are based in (Q- what if there are multiple cities with fighters), then there is probably a "chance of intercept" around 50%. There might be something in the archives here from the late 90's.