Aircraft Carrier

Aircraft Carrier (tier 1)

Domain	sea
Tiers	5 (see all tiers)
Attack	0
Defense	55
Speed	72
Volume	250000
Cargo capacity	4500
Build time	1100
Cost	240 money, 100 food, 140 metal, 140 petrol
Upkeep	24 money, 10 food, 14 metal, 14 petrol

Aircraft Carrier

Mobile sea airbase that ferries and launches an air wing of jet fighters.

Domain: Sea · Role: Transport · Ammunition: none

Stats

Aircraft Carrier comes in numbered tiers (Tier 1, Tier 2, ...) that are unlocked through research. Each tier has its own attack, defense, speed, range, volume, build time, cost and upkeep. The box at the top right shows Tier 1; the table below compares every tier and is read directly from the game database.

Aircraft Carrier: stats by tier

Stat	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Attack	0	0	0	0	0
Defense	55	72	92	118	156
Speed	72	72	72	72	72
Volume	250000	250000	250000	250000	250000
Cargo capacity	4500	4500	4500	4500	4500
Build time	1100	1300	1530	1810	2150
Cost	240 money, 100 food, 140 metal, 140 petrol	280 money, 110 food, 160 metal, 160 petrol	320 money, 120 food, 180 metal, 180 petrol	360 money, 140 food, 200 metal, 200 petrol	420 money, 160 food, 230 metal, 230 petrol
Upkeep	24 money, 10 food, 14 metal, 14 petrol	28 money, 11 food, 16 metal, 16 petrol	32 money, 12 food, 18 metal, 18 petrol	36 money, 14 food, 20 metal, 20 petrol	42 money, 16 food, 23 metal, 23 petrol

Abilities

• Carries jet fighters up to its cargo volume (a m³ budget).
• Its attack comes from the embarked jets it projects into battle. An empty carrier has no air strike of its own, so its combat power scales with the jets loaded aboard.

Counters

Aircraft Carrier has no hard counters and is not a hard counter to anything, it trades on raw stats.

Hard-countered units take extra losses and cannot retaliate against the unit countering them. See Units#Counters for the full matrix.

Production

Trained at the Naval Base. Build time, cost and upkeep depend on the tier (see Stats).

Aircraft Carrier uses no ammunition.

Movement and transport

As a naval unit it operates on sea nodes and cannot enter land districts.

It carries jet fighters, up to its cargo volume (a m³ budget).

Tips

• An empty carrier has no air strike of its own; its combat power is the jets embarked, so fill it before sailing into contact.
• Embarked jets keep their limits: they cannot counter other jets, and Anti-Air and Frigates return fire against them.

See also

• Units: all units, counter matrix and stances