Is air superiority worthless?

[Frugal_Gourmet]

Yeah, air superiority doesn't work.

[Mor666gotH]

thinks it's maybe the worst bug in the game

[Stryfe]

Originally posted by dexters
Speaking of the mysterious AI combat bonus, I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

A knight fights a spearman, knight has upper hand, but for some reason, spearman's hp losses suddenly slows down to a crawl and the knight is slaughtered. The next turn, another veteran knight comes by and whacks the same until with no problem.

I don't see this as evidence of AI combat bonuses. The problem is that combat resembles that of Civ1 more than Civ2; however, this isn't even an instance of that. A fortified spearman has a pretty decent chance of beating a knight (3.3 to 4); even unfortified, it's chances aren't all that bad (2.2 to 4).

[Mahdimael]

I've never seen this happen to any large extent. I had a group of 3 infantry and an artillery piece next to an enemy city (with 2 ironclads providing shore bombardment), and I must have heavily wounded 10 cavalry as well as killing an enemy army of cavalry and riflemen, while losing 1 infantry and wounding the others (and giving them experience enough to get my first great leader - strange to see George Washington leading an army of WW1 infantrymen)

Edit: Note that my infantry were defending the entire time

[Blaupanzer]

Appears to be a bug. Human player fighters don't fly air superiority and human player coastal fortresses don't fire on passing enemy ships. These "respond to the other player's movement" functions work fine for the AI.

[Madine]

Hmm, I think one of my coastal fortresses fired once..........I could be mistaken though.

[Kyle]

I've encountered it once (due to my lack of wars) and the damn fighter shot down my bomber. So it seems to work for the AI at least.