Less Overpowered Cities

Less Overpowered Cities

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This Mod Halves The Combat Strenght of Cities and the Bonus Strenght Gained by New Population.

Note: This Mod doesn´t affect defensive buildings.

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Bad at Civ, better make a mod!

Irkalla said:

Bad at Civ, better make a mod!

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That was mean.

That´s the point of modding

Irkalla said:

Bad at Civ, better make a mod!

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I think it's funnier because it's Genghis Khan, making a mod to make cities easier to take.

OUR HORDES AND USER-CREATED CONTENT WILL RAZE YOUR CITIES TO THE GROUND.

To expand upon my previous post, defense is SUPPOSED to be overpowered. What's the point of building tall cities if they are just going to be easily taken?

I, for one, like having to actually try to take a city.

JanghanHong said:

I think it's funnier because it's Genghis Khan, making a mod to make cities easier to take.

OUR HORDES AND USER-CREATED CONTENT WILL RAZE YOUR CITIES TO THE GROUND.

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Heh.

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Learn to take a joke

Well, I actually dont play with Genghis a lot... But he was probably the 2nd best general ever... 1st is Sun Tzu.

But about the mod, who can the population of a city defend theirselves against thousands of horsemand, swordsmen, catapults, archers...

Genghis.Khan said:

Well, I actually dont play with Genghis a lot... But he was probably the 2nd best general ever... 1st is Sun Tzu.

But about the mod, who can the population of a city defend theirselves against thousands of horsemand, swordsmen, catapults, archers...

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Eannatum was quite a great general for his time, except for the part where he died in battle and all.

Mutawallis led an attack that Ramesses very narrowly escaped from with his life.

Esarhaddon had the largest empire in the world, and would only lose that honor to Alexander the Great.

Also, garrisons. Any city worth defending is going to have at least one full army there to defend it. This includes archers, infantrymen, and counter siege measures. It's generally better that Defense rather than Offense be overpowered. I find that cities are easy enough to take with the proper amount of planning. This includes bringing in scouts for fodder to keep fire off the siege engines, and then personal bodyguards for the siege engines while at the same time having a naval bombardment. Then when the city's low enough, start marching men in and sending melee ships in to take the city.

Well, still it feels that cities without an army shouldn´t be able to resist your hordes of catapults, archers, etc

Genghis.Khan said:

Well, still it feels that cities without an army shouldn´t be able to resist your hordes of catapults, archers, etc

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I thought that the defense and attack abilities of cities were symbolic of a military presence in the city which you can supplement with a garrisoned unit.

I understand them as the resistance of the city population

This can be cleared by something like "While at war build military units at double speed for the first 10 turns"

One thing I've run into with a similar implementation is that the combat strength of a city with a garrison in it doesn't 'floor' at the strength of the unit - if the unit has a strength of 50 and the city has a strength of 10 on its own, the total strength with that unit in it is only 20. This means that later in the game, units will 2- or 3-shot cities, even ones that should be well-defended. And since you lose the unit, it means that your units are actually in the most danger when garrisoned in a city. It also means if you have a large force around a city, and they also have a large force near it, you'll see the city change hands every turn - the AI is incapable of considering the city to be a defenseless position and will prioritize getting its units into that city, even though it's actually a deathtrap.

There's a constant with _UNIT_DIVISOR or something similar, but I haven't checked exactly how that's factored.

Just a heads up on how the game behaves with these kinds of changes, unless you've done something to fix it.