I mean your not wrong about just nuking where its stationed........Or Blitzkrieg Civ style on the first turn

if you play on an island map then you cant use stealth bombers aggressively.

bye bye [INSERT CIVILIZATION NAME HERE]

ah yes some person who did arson but with bombs. or this is India with all the fecking nukes

Imagine if all those bombs were nuclear.

While the developers included the option to start in any era, the game balance is designed for Ancient Era starts with all victories enabled.

As for Stealth Bombers, I was wrong when I said there was no counter. You can hit a Stealth Bomber airbase with a nuclear missile, but that didn't come to mind because I play with nukes turned off, and the nuclear option isn't available. Without nukes, the best way of dealing with them is to try and strike the city they're based in as quick as you can on the first turn, before they can be unleashed.

the devs didn't try to make info work because they thought everyone would've been bombed by nuke missiles already?

The default Information Era game balance is garbage, because the game isn't designed to be played in the Information Era. Units like the Rocket Artillery and Stealth Bomber are fairly balanced for an Ancient Era game, (Beware those who research them first, basically,) but in an Information Era game where the playing field is leveled by technological equality, the Stealth Bomber has no counter and the Rocket Artillery is horrendously underpowered for sieging 150+ strength Cities. Combine that with only two Movement, and you'd be better off using Stealth Bombers as your siege weapons anyway.

Hence, the artwork.

honestly, the devs are fucking autistic. they add SAM launcher and jet fighters, and then make the stealth bombers invincible.

I also like spamming then (sometimes)