Originally posted by Le Petit Prince
Whats all these cruiser missiles...the A.I. builds 7 cruiser miss. to destroy one battleships???they could have built 3-4 battleships with all these shields or at least bombers...
Hey everyone. First time poster here on this excellent Civ site. I've played Civ since I started playing the first game in 1993. I've been playing Civ2 since 1998.
As for the AI cruise missile issue, that happens to me almost every Civ2 game I play. It angers me to no end that I send out a fleet of battleships to my enemy's countryside only to have them bombarded with a swarm of cruise missiles.
That's one of the many gripes I have with the Civ2 AI, that it mass produces cruise missiles only to lob them at two specific units: the battleship and the carrier.
Here's what I started doing:
I stacked the battleships closest to the enemy with AEGIS Cruisers. Come the enemy's turn, they waste cruise missile after cruise missile on my AEGIS/battleship stacks. One stack withstood 10 or so cruise missile hits. Then the AI started getting a hint of a clue and sent their Stealth Fighters and Stealth Bombers after the stacks. They dropped like flies. Eventually the AI got smart and started sending out battleships to attack my stacks. Usually by then, I had my entire naval fleet waiting of the enemy's coast.
My other gripes (May have been mentioned in this thread. I apologize for any repeats):
-The AI civs have no reputation to speak of. I am usually the biggest, most powerful, and most advanced Civ in the later stages of the game. Even when earlier when, say, the Aztecs and English cycled regularly between peace and war, they will not hesitate to ally with each other to contain my aggression once my empire has far exceeded the second best one.
-In games I have played in King and Emperor, the AI civs can ward off almost any barbarian uprising. Even the AI's weak units like Settlers, Warriors, and Caravan can hold off barbarians. I have seen a single AI Warrior fortified in a city destroy five barb Crusaders, an AI Settler fend off a barb Cannon, and even a Caravan fend off multiple barbs. Against me, even Vet Pikemen behind city walls are lucky to escape a barb Crusader attack "in the red."