Recent content by Axraxes

A thought on MirandaCore's last post regarding using tanks and only tanks. I guess if that strategy works for you, more power to you. It got me to thinking though, that historically, tanks have not been good units to attack cities with. They are great out in the open where they can maneuver...

Artillery's point is not to keep up with your main attacking force. Yes, it would be nice if it could, but then you would need a unit that has a movement value of 2, plus the ability to fire and move in the same turn - (actually it would need a movement value of 3, so it could fire, then move...

The AI doesn't build enough of them to give you a sizable force if all you do is capture your enemies artillery. If you build up a good sized artillery force of your own, it makes it easier to capture your enemies artillery as they are usually nestled in among several defenders in their cities...

Zouave, I do agree with your first point. Why doesn't the AI use artillery offensively? I think it would have me shaking in my shoes if I saw 20 artillery stacked with 10 Infantry and 20 calvary approaching my cities - especially if I didn't have tanks yet. OUCH!!

Wow - I'm not sure why you're all so down on bombardment. Yes, the early units like catapult and cannon don't seem to 'hit' very often, once you get the artillery unit it changes things. A good sized stack of Artillery defended by several Infantry units will rarely fall to an attack - if...

Wrong Maple. In Republic or Democracy, war weariness among the population will kick in at some point - regardless as to how the war is going.

Holy smokes people - what are you all a bunch of statistics majors? If anyone has insomnia reading this thread is a guaranteed cure - I know it cured me. What are the chances of that?

All these replies and no one has mentioned the Babylonians as being a good starting civ yet? Wow, maybe I'm playing the game wrong. Anyway, I like playing as the Babylonians for their religious and scientific bonuses - they can build those type of city improvements for half price, meaning a...

RE: the post about not being able to build railroads - yes you do need iron, but I believe you also need coal as well.

Regarding war weariness - I have noticed when you first go to war it does not kick in right away - I guess you get what they call a "honeymoon period." Once war weariness kicks in though and you make peace if you go to war again it seems like war weariness kicks in immediately - there is no...

Hi Doughboy, In case you haven't stumbled upon it yourself, what Xus is referring to is that you can send multiple worker units to clean up the pollution on a single square. Each one you add to the clean up effort will shorten the amount of turns it takes to clean it up. If you have enough...

I've had the same problem, where the game will start up in kind of a "split screen" mode. This only happens when I start the game by inserting the CD and letting it start by using Auto Run. If I start the game by clicking on the icon on my desktop I never have the problem. Is that weird or what?

Yes!! I just realized two days ago you can irrigate diagonally. That is a nice change and extremely helpful since you can't use saltwater for irrigation anymore. Much more realistic too - good job on this one Firaxis.

Chinese American - if you are trying to center the map on the active unit, just hit the "C" key - then you won't have any problems with the End Turn button. Unfortunately, I have no pity for your brother. I have played the first two Civs and still had to read the manual for CivIII. There...

It's not just you Mad Russian. I've been thinking the same thing since I purchased it and ran into two technical glitches I had to find work arounds for before it would run. Most people posting here have better hardware than I do and are reporting even bigger problems. Did they do any testing...