Reading in Wiki, that land forces fire first on planes so the nuclear bomber would be destroyed before dropping payload. Problem is covering liberated province control points near the army. My question involves patrolling interceptors to cover those control points.
Wiki says attack and defense are done simultaneously. So when patrolling does that mean that the nuclear bomber drops its' payload before being destroyed. Do I have to be there to give the interceptors the attack command before the bomber reaches its' target?
Wiki has evolved a bit. I always thought that my patrolling planes just needed to overlap a little bit with enemy patrolling plane to have full attack/defense numbers. Didn't realize one had to have an overlap of 50% to get the full power. Doesn't apply to the covered ground units, but does bring up question that if planes attack a ground unit ( or province control point ) on edge of patrolling interceptors, will the interceptor defend with full force?
I haven't used nuclear myself but need to understand it more. One time I attacked a city with nuclear bomber and other planes and armies. One set of planes went in for attack while others patrolled. The damaged nuclear bomber flew up and attacked patrolling planes and blew everything up. Nasty things.
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5 Jun 2025, 22:33
Still on the question whether patrolling interceptors would having any affect on incoming nuclear bombers unless their 15 minute defense activated before the nuclear bomber dropped its' load.
Wiki says offense and defense simultaneous with planes so the nuclear bomber's attack is successful. Right?
The ground units fire first. So I'm assuming all anti air with range defend. Sixty units could fire back if separated enough and covering the point of attack.
So is it better just to leave interceptors patrolling upstream of nuclear threat? I'm thinking if ground defense is too strong the nuclear attacker could just attack the patrolling planes above the target. Simultaneous attack and defense, the whole thing blows up. That's what I'm getting from WIKI. Is that right?
6 Jun 2025, 06:55
I think that its if a plane is patroling over your own territory, neutral territory, ally territory, or sea its on defence and if an enemy aircraft enters the patrol area then the patrolling plane would do the damage, and since its a nuclear bomber it cant attack back.
6 Jun 2025, 12:35 (edited)
True the patrolling plane attacks every 15 minutes and the nuclear bomber has zero defense if in the patrol zone.
But if the nuclear bomber attacks something in the patrol area before the patrol attack, then patrolling plane will defend. So simultaneous action and nuke goes off.
Also my one experience with a nuke bomber flying up and attacking my patrolling planes makes me question whether leaving any planes patrolling is good idea. Nuclear bomber could change from the high anti air ground target and attack the planes instead knowing there would be success because attack and defense is simultaneous.
So I think it would be a bug that a nuclear bomber can attack another plane in the air like happened to me, and that maybe needs fixing.
And I think nuclear bomber should be the one exception to planes where attack and defense happens simultaneous. I think it should be the planes defend first before bomber drops load. But is that the case?
7 Jun 2025, 02:58
You realize, the patrolling planed IF ON YOUR LANDS OR THE SEA does not do an attack every 15 minutes, it is just waiting for an enemy to go in the circle.
7 Jun 2025, 03:40
It's all timing Electro. If the enemy arrives in the circle 1 minute after the attack it has 14 minutes to get out of the circle to remain unscathed. If it arrives a minute before the attack it takes a hit. So for all intents and purposes your patrolling plane is attacking every 15 minutes whether there is an enemy to receive or not. And you will not defend unless a plane attacks your planes or the ground you are patrolling.
15 Jun 2025, 00:55
I agree with your assessment, that is currently how it works. How it should work is a patrolling aircraft should attack when an enemy aircraft enters the patrol circle and every 15 minutes thereafter.
