Clock wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

I searched through the old posts before submitting this one and saw only one previous mention of such an ability. I think it would fill an important niche and make naval play more interesting. Currently I think there are not enough different ways to approach the naval fight. Basically its just down to who has more cruisers as I see it.

Yes, it´s not dynamic enough. But I think they should try to do something with existing units (... aircraft carrier maybe? don't fix something that isn't broken, though) rather than adding more things although I think the post below

Colonel Waffles wrote:

For the groups of cruise missiles, I once suggested that the Cruise Missile Launcher could be able to stack 2 Cruise missiles together

It would allow it to serve as a coastal defense against ships and heavy support for land units.

would be better than what you are suggesting.

Dealer of Death wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

Thoughts on a late tech upgrade for ballistic missiles that would allow them to target surface ships? Obviously the real world parallel would be the DF-21

This would have to be balanced by an associated missile defense upgrade for frigates (and cruisers?).

At the same time I would like to see something to make groups of cruise missiles more effective against ships.

" ... Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again."

Clock wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

Clock wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

I searched through the old posts before submitting this one and saw only one previous mention of such an ability. I think it would fill an important niche and make naval play more interesting. Currently I think there are not enough different ways to approach the naval fight. Basically its just down to who has more cruisers as I see it.

Yes, it´s not dynamic enough. But I think they should try to do something with existing units (... aircraft carrier maybe? don't fix something that isn't broken, though) rather than adding more things although I think the post below

Colonel Waffles wrote:

For the groups of cruise missiles, I once suggested that the Cruise Missile Launcher could be able to stack 2 Cruise missiles together

It would allow it to serve as a coastal defense against ships and heavy support for land units.

would be better than what you are suggesting.

Thanks for the perspective. What do you think is the main drawback of something like what I suggested?

Balance would not become valuable enough. Ballistic submarines could be hidden everywhere and simply move around with that much more HP, able to easily punch through Frigates. Ballistics would become much too powerful and would be used to target ships at sea dealing literally 150 damage.But in reality, the feature would just be useless... move 20 miles away and they can't target you any longer. Maybe for coastal cities that share 1 Naval pathway but that is very specific.
Cruise missiles are much more flexible and would give a decent use to a currently useless unit without unbalancing Navy too much and allowing reduced Navy to be somewhat acceptable ( the launcher would be kind of like an anti-air but for Navy).

Gen Vader wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

What do you think is the main drawback of something like what I suggested?

Balance.

Gen Vader wrote:

HalfBakedHoser wrote:

I don't consider a balance issue reason to trash a possible feature in-and-of itself; it just means the feature would need to be tweaked in order to balance it properly. Maybe this unit-targeting ballistic could be made as a specialty offshoot of the existing bm tree (as naval fighters are to traditional fighters) which would have its own land-based launcher that it is exclusive to.

Give me some rough numbers including cost per unit, hp, atk and missile defence changes.