It seems like an interesting part of the game but it's just never come up. I always start from Ancient Era usually on Difficulty 6-7 and I've never seen planes fight each other. Sometimes the AI builds fighters but wastes them in a few turns by attacking my ground units, so I only end up building bombers.
Posted Jan 16, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC
You can put your fighters to guard the ground units if you notice enemy attacking them with planes. That should work if they decide to use the planes again there.
Holy shit you're AI actually builds planes!?!?
Very rarely, but didn't the op say he sometimes sees ai use them?
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Nearly 1100 hours in and I don't think I have ever seen the AI use air units or nukes. I've usually won by turn 300 (or long since stopped caring about the rest of the world), so it never comes up.
I think the combination of needing a special district, needing aluminum, AND being harder to just throw at a target discourages the AI from building them.
I have had a game with quite a few air combats. I always keep my planes patrolling key ground targets or cities. But now that you mention it...it has been quite awhile since I’ve experienced that. Maybe it was an anomaly
I've only had it happen on Multiplayer.
Plenty! In multiplayer. If you want intelligent enemies you have to play against humans. I suggest CPL discord.
I've had the enemy have aircraft that did nothing but sit in their air bases until I destroyed them.
Yeh some barbarians came after me with helicopters, so a 1-2 from my city defenses and helicopters made short work of em. Never against another civ.
Helicopters are technically Calvary not air in civ 6.
500 hours and I've only ever seen Korea and America build planes, let alone use them. I did see the Kongo build an AA gun exactly once as well.
I've got 2k hours on civ 6 and have never once seen an ai use an airplane. They have built a couple just never used them.
I've had it happen twice ever. In the same game, diety, it was the last civ left and they were the most advanced. They had one fighter that hurt my bombers a little bit.
Never, even on Diety. The AI sucks at anything except ground unit production. Even the naval focused Civs barely do anything
This is how I managed my first and thus far only deity win. Since the AI completely neglects anti-air capacity, I just spammed bombers and their bonuses didn't do a bloody thing since they couldn't really fight back at all.
Until you come up against a bunch of GDRs and are fooked.
GDRs have always been underwhelming, in my opinion. The one time I tried using them, contemporary siege units were much more effective.
You have to manually use their ranged attack against walled cities, not just right click to attack. Right clicking engages the melee attack.
2 or 3 of them can be absolutely devastating for basically all your warfaring purposes. Anti-air, seige...they muck barn, especially with a seige cannon upgrade. Great fun nuking cities and taking them with GDRs too, super easy way to take over a civ. Only downside is their high uranium consumption
Have to disagree, usually the Vikings send a lot of navy. I've had many games where the Vikings attempt naval invasions.