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The Biplane is a Modern Era air fighter unit in Civilization VI.

In the Gathering Storm expansion, the Biplane requires 1 Oil Oil to train and 1 Oil Oil per turn to maintain.

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  • Abilities:
    • May perform Patrols to Intercept incoming enemy aircraft.

Strategy[]

The Biplane is the first air unit that becomes available, and the only one that does not require Aluminum Aluminum to build. It also becomes available before almost any form of anti-air defense (with the exception of the Battleship and the Minas Geraes), which will allow it to provide support to nearby land units without fear of retaliation until other civilizations reach the Atomic Era.

Although its Ranged Strength Ranged Strength of 75 is respectable, the Biplane suffers from an extremely limited range of operation. Even when deployed, its effective range from base is 6 tiles, which is usually not enough to reach targets for offensive operations. This means that unless you have a squad of Military Engineers ready to build Airstrips on your frontiers, you will have to use Biplanes for defense only.

If air units are an important part of your strategy, be sure to research Advanced Flight and upgrade Biplanes to Fighters as quickly as possible - this will make them much more powerful, and most importantly, much more mobile with more Movement Movement and Range Range.

Air fighter units, including the Biplane, cannot be deployed to tiles in the fog of war or in enemy territory even when the tile is within the deploy (Movement Movement) range of the unit.

Civilopedia entry[]

Before WW1, the airplane was a clever curiosity for getting grown men excited. Airplanes were fragile, underpowered (gliding as much as flying), clumsy, limited in distance and payload, expensive, and generally biplanes, since two wings served better than one for maneuverability and lift in the face of all these limitations. By the end of WW1, the airplane was a dreaded machine of war, able to spot enemy movement at a distance and then rain destruction down upon it. The biplanes of the 1914-1918 conflict became ever-more specialized as the war progressed, from the nimble fighters to the dependable recon planes to the lumbering bombers soon flying over enemy cities dropping explosives on civilians. By the end of the war, however, the wood-and-fabric biplanes were disappearing, being replaced by metal covered, single-wing craft capable of better speed and faster climb. But by then, the exploits of heroic, gallant men in their brightly-painted biplanes had already entered the psyche of war.

See also[]

Civilization VI Units [edit]
Civilian SettlerBuilderTraderArchaeologistSpyNaturalistRock Band GS-Only
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Naval military Aircraft CarrierBattleship (Minas Geraes) • Caravel (Nau1) • DestroyerFrigate (De Zeven Provinciën R&F-OnlyJong1) • Galley (Bireme GS-OnlyViking Longship) • IroncladMissile CruiserNuclear SubmarinePrivateer (Barbary Corsair GS-OnlySea Dog) • Quadrireme (Dromon1) • Submarine (U-Boat)
Aircraft BiplaneBomberFighter (P-51 Mustang) • Jet BomberJet Fighter
Support Anti-Air GunBattering RamCultist3Drone R&F-OnlyMedicMilitary EngineerMobile SAMObservation BalloonSiege TowerSoothsayer2Supply Convoy R&F-Only
Religious ApostleGuruInquisitorMissionary
See also Great PeopleHeroes
1 Requires DLC2 Apocalypse mode only • 3 Secret Societies mode only • 4 Heroes & Legends mode only • 5 Zombie Defense mode only

R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
GS-Only Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

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