No Modern Transports?

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arfalk

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• Jul 14, 2008

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I must profess a little ignorance here, as I have yet to play out the entire game. My wife is currently playing it and she's in the modern age. She asked me how to transport units across water and I told her to use a transport. We looked, and we could not find one!

So my question is this, does the Cruiser and/or Battleship double as a transport in this game?

Pardon the ignorance. And thank you!

 

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• Jul 14, 2008

• #2

Any naval unit except submarines transport in Rev.

 

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• Jul 14, 2008

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shadowplay said:

Any naval unit except submarines transport in Rev.

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and one naval unit, aside from subs, can transport every military unit you own in a single trip.

Park a fleet of battleships off the coast of a city and you can attack the city with practically anything and still win the battle. Naval power takes on a whole new definition in this game.

 

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Thanks guys. Thats just so different from previous Civ games; I'm not sure I can wrap my mind around it!

 

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Quite a bit in Civ:Rev takes an old time Civ player like me to get used to. But I like it, and will continue to play while looking forward to the updates that our favorite developer always gives us.

 

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Although any naval unit, save the sub, will transport all of your units, I think it's best to not put all your eggs in one basket incase you get attacked and you've a bunch of built up army units in a galley or something...

This is of course coming from a Noob of all Noob's, so I could be totally wrong. However, I've lost Galleon's at sea, and I'm glad they were empty at the time...

Cheers,

Mark

 

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• Jul 14, 2008

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What is the advantage of submarines over cruisers?

 

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One thing I've noticed is that naval units make great bridges for water gaps only one tile wide. It takes a whole turn between putting them off the boat and then moving them to the other side, but it can make a huge difference if you have cities that are a long walk from each other because of water tiles.

 

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• Jul 14, 2008

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dexters said:

What is the advantage of submarines over cruisers?

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Submarines have twice the attack rating of cruisers. Subs are 12.2.2 and cruisers are 6.6.5. Notice however, subs only have a 2 defense and even worse have only a 2 movement. I haven't had much luck with subs, they take forever to get anywhere. Subs are also a lot cheaper to build. According to the CivFanatics unit table a sub costs only 25 hammers whereas a cruiser is 40 and a battleship is 80.

 

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• Jul 15, 2008

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Subs are good attacking Cruisers but if the cruiser attack first... GG because the sub defense is very low.