Civilization – In Civ 5 can you destroy missiles and planes based in cities

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In Civilization 5 If I bomb an enemy city do missiles and planes based in that city take damage? Is there a way to tell which buildings are damaged or destroyed in an enemy city after bombing? Perhaps with a spy?

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When you attack a city e.g. by using bomb-attacks you are only damaging the health points of the city. You can't damage units in the city, neither ground units nor aircraft or missiles. Furthermore buildings are not damaged by the attacks.

To damage warplanes you could place Anti-Air units to intercept them or you can use your own fighter jets to clear the air space. That's an ability of them.
The only way to destroy missiles positioned in a city is to capture it or destroy it via nuclear missiles, two are needed to destroy a city.

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Civilization – What happens to unique buildings in occupied cities

The Paper Maker and the Wat are transformed into a Library and a University. The other unique buildings I tried were destroyed.

I'm pretty certain that some classes of buildings are always destroyed, but there is probably also a random factor.

The XML files have some information about it, the probability of capture for the unique buildings is the following

Longhouse          66%
Bazaar             75%
Satraps Court      75%
Paper Maker        66%
Wat                66%

For the other unique buildings there is no value given, I assume that they are always destroyed.

Civilization – In Civ5, is there any point to immediately annexing a city

I've been thinking about it myself, and I agree that it's almost always a better option to let the city stay as a puppet for a while before annexing it.

One major drawback here is not only that you cannot control what puppets produce, but it's that puppets never produce units. If you're at war, for example, the ability to produce units is critical, and sometimes you just need the extra city right now. Still, considering that conquered cities lose half their population and most of their buildings, their production is usually so low that making them a puppet is probably still the best choice.

Regarding the edit: I see no reason for annexing a city before the riots are done. You can't do anything during riots anyway, so it's best to not lose the extra happiness for these few turns.

However, now WillfulWizard's answer becomes more important. If you intend to annex it soon but you want to keep it a puppet for just 2 to 5 turns, there's a good chance you might forget - particularly if you're in the middle of a war and every turn is hectic and eventful. If you intend to annex it quickly anyway, maybe it's best to just lose the few points of happiness from having the city annexed during its riots, than to forget about it completely.

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