Hi Hayden, I don't know about you but i find the Aircraft carriers an invaluable part of my task force. Their power is being able to move a lot of fighters across the map and attack coastal defences before landing troops. For example, if their is a city you want to capture I'll send a couple of fighters in to bomb the crap out of any tanks or troops in the area and then send in my transports to capture the city. Sometimes I will lose a few fighters doing this, but it softens up the enemy defences so that my infantry and tanks don't get hammered when they land boots on enemy soil.
The other tactical advantage carriers have is they can act as mobile refueling stations. If you have fighters scouting an area deep behind enemy lines chances are good they can't get back to one of your cities to refuel. They can land on your carrier and get refueled before taking off and continue to scout the enemy defences. Finally, carriiers are power houses in a navel engagement. For example, an enemy battleship was pounding my coastal defences and my submarines and battleships were not in the area. Fortunately, I had a carrier fully loaded nearby. Well, I managed to kick the crap out of the battleship. I sent all 8 fighters in to bomb and blast the battleship which seriously damaged it. Then, I moved the carrier itself in to engage the battleship and it was sunk without hardly any damage to the carrier. The only week point in my attack were the fighters as they are unfortunately are too easy to shoot down. However, if you have several aircraft and consider them expendable losses you can usually pound the enemy into pudding which I certainly did. Of course the more carriers you have in a group the more power you have in numbers. I once attacked an enemy with four carrier groups and 32 fighters. Let's just say I lost about 12 fighters but every enemy tank, soldier, and enemy aircraft in the immediate area was toast. I totally cleared the island of enemy troops without landing a single infantry unit on the island to capture it. I only sent my ground forces in to take the cities and start production for my side. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
