Recent content by Cobra Commander

I've never successfully stolen a tech... EVER Granted, I tend to play on the higher difficulties, but still, I should succeed sometimes. Espionage sucks in civ III. It's almost entirely useless. The only thing I've ever accomplished is to successfully plant a spy so I could count their...

If Shiplord is right, then theres no point in building a courthouse in a city that's more than 25% above the OCN right? City number 52 on an OCN 40 map would gain no benifit from a courthouse since that would simply up the OCN to 50. I hope that's not right, because building a courthouse...

Now play it on a much higher level. Regent is pretty easy to beat any way you want.

Actually remaining peaceful is pretty easy on the higher levels. Just be in some sort of trade with em, and don't let those trade routes get cut. Since at higher levels you're not usually the 'big power' until very late in the game, they don't attack you out of envy either. If you have a weak...

Err, not sure which ones exactly, but the VP locations are completely irrelevant. Capturing cities and killing units is where you get your vp's. The cities that I capture on teh first turn are: Two or three of the chinese cities, including the 2nd largest one. Hong Kong, the south most burma...

You can beat the computer pretty much anytime because it's so incompetent. But Japan can even beat up on human players without too much trouble. Japan can get about 10,000 victory points on the FIRST TURN! Before the other humans even have a chance to move. This makes it pretty tough...

I like the Usegi clan. They get a pretty decent start location, and Iron is available just to the NE. As far as strategy goes, it will vary by the difficulty level you're playing at. At low levels you can run around and knock off enemy daimyos and claim their land. At higher levels it's...

While increasing the number of units in a city reduces the chances of it revolting, it also increases the damage if it DOES revolt. If you're invading a culturally superior civ and you are close to his capital, it's almost impossible to prevent a city from revolting. I've lost entire...

Productivity is pretty irrelevant when you start with enough units to slaughter the AI out of hand. I probably wound up building like 6 light tanks and 6 marines in the eight turns of the game, mostly by just buying them. Other than that, the 200+ starting units pretty much allow you to...

Seems to me that Japan is a bit strong in the WWII Pacific Conquest. I just beat Sid difficulty in 8 turns! That seems a bit on the easy side, when teh scenario is designed to run for 50 turns. Even against other human players, Japan is still very strong. Anybody have any thoughts...

Hmm, so nobody else has had this problem? Or nobody else has tried to play the WWII conquest multiplayer?

Have been trying to play a play by mail version of the WWII conquest scn, but have encountered several problems. First off, the Allied no-move rule seems to cause problems. Turned out that US and Neatherlands couldnt' move, but China and UK could. In other attempts, the US COULD move...