In other word this patch fix one problem by removing one of the options that the AI couldn't handle , that is army stacking problem. I could just as well point out there is already a fit to the armies problem called civ3 vanilla.
What the? Don't you see the obvious differnce in the one unit army life bar? Your actually tryin to say to have no army is the same as having one of the magnitude shown?. You have never played this game have you? lol..
Man I had my hunch all your civ3 talk here was regurged from some HOF expliot thread but now Im pritty this is the case.
You have never played " Rood and the Dragon" one of the most famous mods that use this patch. Advice? Don't talk if your uneducated otherwise you end up being schooled here. Not the best place right?
LOOK! two of them! How do you miss it? Used to seeing much bigger units I guess!
A lot bigger then average don' you think? And Yes, LIke I said, The kind of advantage thats warrented for the amount of resources invested!
Because of this extra life the army unit has a MAJOR increase in chance of being promoted to elite, hence even greater life bar discrepency between the average opposing unit. You see you have more of a Chess 'rook' type here, not the all chessy invincible army that took out a civ when stacked with few artys
ALso the unit has the extra movement!. With this it can attack more red-lined units and thus arrivie at 'Elite' faster. This means its odds in combat are quickly what an expienced army should expect . A inexperienced army can still take a licken and thus this 1unit Army model better reflects that.
So as you see the 'Army' abilty is code removed that brought added to benifit to the game, especially as hope agaist '40 city Civs' that can be common place. OH wait in Civ4 they took that out to
Just admit you have one less thing to repeatidly complain about here. AS for me and others, the reality is Today civ3 players have a more balanced unit thats more realistic and more fun to use. Oh and guess what? the AI USES THEM AS MUCH AS YOU!
So you were sayin?