Please nuke the fighters damage against buildings.

[GavinMcStine]

Fighters are OP. They shouldn’t be better in almost every way over bombers.
They cost less, have more hp, use up one slot, deal more damage to buildings then they should, faster speed, slow down buildings and have an area attack on troops.

Remove the slow from the fighters and give it to the bombers and reduce the damage the fighters deal to buildings.

 

[Quovatis]

Fighter's suppression aligns with the real life function they did, so would be silly to remove that. Bomber health needs to be doubled (again) for them to be viable. I still haven't seen one in war or multiplayer in ages, even after the hp buff.

 

[GavinMcStine]

London didn’t make fighter shelters, they made bomb shelters. That is the definition of suppression.

 

[Manifesto]

I vote this thread be closed.

 

[LordAnubis]

Ditto. I worked my arse off to go from triplanes to strike fighter mk 6 in two months. Nobody dare touch em now.

 

[pckrn]

maybe bombers need a buff but fighters are NOT op.

maybe bombers should drop 1 more bomb; right before the current set of bombs so that its not flying any further than it does now.

 

[Manifesto]

Before this thread is closed I would like to suggest that bombers should get an upgrade where they can drop flares or chaff to distract SAMs or reduce SAM damage.
WW2 era planes started did this, why not introduce them in Global age? It would be the equivalent of a boost to HP and should be a nice visual effect.

 

[Bedlam]

No one is taking my fighters away...

 

[Festivus]

I agree. This is dumb.

 

[Festivus]

This is silly.

In real life, bombers are relatively slow, vulnerable, do lots of damage, but are easily shot down without stealth or fighter cover.

Fighters are faster and much harder to kill, and with more modern weapons (like the strike fighters) can do quite a bit of damage in their own right.

Devs, please ignore the OP. The fighters are fine as is.

 

[ReekyBullet]

Based on history we should be getting stealth bombers soon shouldn't we? Haven't had new air units in the airstrip since global either.

 

[T4TiFooS]

if you like bombers more it does not mean they should nerf fighters ! but I agree they should buff bombers ! they are not in their real place!
Dont rush to the nxt age , upgrade your all buildings/traps with air defense ability to the max lvl and then you will see fighters are not OP !
Indeed they may OP for lower ages but not for the same age at all !

 

[Kaiser Shag]

Don't you dare touch to my supersonic fighters, it took me ages to farm all the oil to upgrade them to their current level and to upgrade amelia to get the 5th one !

 

[bugalho]

Honestly, sometimes the community confuses me. I see so many post about the defense being OP when regarding the offence, and then out of the nowhere comes someone whining about some offence being OP... Beats me....

 

[ReekyBullet]

Anyone whining about OP offence at the moment has a rushed or underdeveloped base. Attacking a strong atomic or cold war base is basically asking for higher retrain cost than what can be gained. Maxed towers will wreck a stray fighter lol

 

[Butcherer]

Yes couldn't agree more. In fact, until about mid Global Age, I did exactly this with great effect. I used 2 fighters and a bomber; send in the fighters to suppress buildings and then used the bombers to take out defences which threatened my ground forces. It all worked very well until I had managed to upgrade my fighters sufficiently to make better use of their flexibility and speed.

 

[GavinMcStine]

@ReekyBullet
Maxed towers means nothing when you attack them with 4 fighters and the tower gets off 1 shot.

 

[GavinMcStine]

This could be submitted to a law school as a case and point.

If I say that fighters are op and everyone is like don’t touch my fighters, it just goes to prove that fighters are op, because no one wants to lose their op fighters.

 

[Bootney Lee Fonsworth]

It's case in point. And for the time, research cost, training cost, training times and wonky AI involved with fighters they're fine as they are. All my anti-air defenses are still industrial, my towers are global and lower, and my SAMs are global as well. Shockingly enough I still manage to down Supersonic fighters when they hit my base. Maybe not all 5, but enough to make people consider cost/benefit ratios should they ever come visit again. Perhaps the issue lies somewhere with your defenses or setup.

"I'm a lone voice and lots of people are disagreeing with me, so that means I've been proven correct. Nyahahaha!" Sounds sort of silly when it's put like that, no?
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[LordAnubis]

Hell of a good idea. TinSoldier (aka Spartacus) how about this chaff/flare idea for bombers?