Are Rockets really worth it - Call of War- Forum (2024)

I just caught a You Tube where someone was describing their attacking tactics. He loved rockets. Sadly, I have not watched or spent time learning the game in depth but I remember months ago some other "expert" praising rockets.

I obviously have not mastered there use. In my mind, I prefer bombers or artillery because they can do damage without losing their lives. I recognize a rocket might do 3x the damage of a similar costing bomber or arty unit. However, in the meantime an arty unit can hold ground, collect a misplaced airdrop, finish off a damaged enemy or hide behind a bunker and do more damage than a rocket.

Please tell me why rockets are a good value?

From my knowledge, rockets are mainly good because, not only can you not shoot them down, they also have a pretty good range and are EXTREMELY fast. If you are close enough, you can destroy a player's core provinces within several minutes. Other than that, I don't see that much of a use for them.

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Donk
Bytro game addict and avid CoW player.

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Hmm, if you've asked this question a year or more years back, then my answer would be "Is anything else worth it?" But those were the old days when we were spamming dozens of rockets and unleash them in a surprise attack and wipe everything from the map.

Since then rockets changed a lot. Although they are still strong against units they are now specialized against buildings and provinces as they should be.

Their worthiness depend on the situation you are in. For example, let's assume you are struggling to fight enemy interceptors. They are numerous, they are superior. In this situation rockets can be used to cripple enemy airbases and therefore giving you a window to push with your airforce and finish the job, or at least a chance to fight back. Let's give another example; this time you have total air superiority. Enemy can't give a fight to you. In this situation rockets are useless, more like a waste of resources. In this scenario bomber planes are the way to go, the big ones. Or let's say there is a fort and many units and artillery in it. You can't get close. What do you do? You bomb it with rockets or with railroad guns!

There are unlimited possibilities, it's up to you to decide what's worth investing.

Rockets are mainly to be used against buildings. They are perfect to take down airbases and ground planes in the process, then the planes will return to that province, turn into convoy trucks and you just drop a second rocket to kill them. They are amazing to take down forts or to hamper the economy of your enemy.

Rockets from level 2 onwards also have decent stats against units. However, the unit must be stationary. If you try to attack a moving unit, it will be out of the blast radius before the rocket hits. Rockets deal friendly damage so you can't just lock the enemy in melee combat and then drop rockets on them like we used to do in the Classic version. For this reason it has become more difficult to take down land units with rockets.

Flying bombs are very weak and can be shot down by interceptors. A level 1 rocket is not so interesting. But from level 2 onwards it is interesting. One level 2 rocket can completely destroy a level 1 airbase. With two level 2 rockets you can take out an airbase of level 2.

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I like rockets for when you need to take out some really powerful units. You can use planes as well, but rockets are great for dealing with some heavy damage and taking an advantage.

I'm still new to the game and still learning though,
Jonathan

flying bomb is kinda op too, they got health buff from 10 to 15 in yesterday update and for axis they are available in day 1 which you can start spam them and launch hundred of them raining enemy's city or lone artilery, embarking convoy, airbase and plane truck all of them won't stand against 1 flying bomb, need 3 interceptor to takedown this weapon, cheap and for decrease morale or destroying building this thing work well

i rarely found my flying bomb got shot down in early game. every 14 unit i launch, there's 1 got shot down

when i keep raining my enemy's city he almost had no building and morale in his city, no production, no army. so he can't stop me from advancing even further

amount of flying bomb you need to take down idle enemy's army

Artilery - 1

LT - 2

AC - 2

Infantry - 2

every unit turned into convoy - 1

truck plane - 1

i launch 6 flying bomb and city with 100% morale drop down into 23% no building survive, this unit is very usefull in early game - mid game phase, i'm not interested in rocket after all

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Oh, I didn't realize they were buffed. I think it's better to just use strat bombers though, you can make big stacks that do better than that and you can use several times.

Kind regards,
Donk
Bytro game addict and avid CoW player.

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i gotta use strategic bomber too, they also got buffed in yesterday update, they now have more range

example :

level 1 range : 400 now : level 1 range : 600 (just like level 3 strategic bomber range in old patch)

but in building damage they both have same damage

but in morale damage flying bomb are win in 14 morale damage when strat only deal 2.0 morale damage,

flying bomb better beacuse :

faster than any interceptor
it's cost is cheap
no refuelling
enemy can't predict when and where exactly you will launch the missile
best way to deal with enemy accros the sea (island vs island)

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The main benefit of Flying Bombs and Rockets is indeed the high morale damage. Out of all non-nuclear units they deal the most damage vs. province morale, so you can use them to cripple the enemy's economy, besides the other use cases described in this thread.

Strategic Bombers on the other hand are better for destroying province buildings.

Still both are pretty good vs. morale and buildings.