Recent content by drsteve

You say that retreat is probability based (and I've noticed that with other units) but I have NEVER had an army withdraw from combat, and I've had quite a number of them killed in battle. Any idea why this happens?

:confused: I've used armies in number of the Conquests, and I have run into a few problems with them, several of which have already been mentioned. However, there are two problems I have had which have not been mentioned, so I wondered if anyone else had run itno them 1. An army filled with...

Someone asked if the AI uses armies in C3C. Well I've now completed all the Conquest scenarios, and I've seen ONE army used by the AI (when the AI was Carthage in the Rise of Rome), and that army had a single swordsman in it! Yep, just one. I was rather happy to wipe that one out, I can tell...

OK, I can see what you mean there, "TheNiceOne". I guess since I assumed that armies could be upgraded (or perhaps more accurately, never thought about the issue) I have always just stuck the best attacking units available into my armies, and left it at that. I don't often make armies when...

I can see what you mean about balancing the gameplay. I think being unable to upgrade the army it has really only been annoying to me in playing Rise of Rome. You start the game with a leader, and I used him to form an army, and filled it with three Legionary I units. Now I have upgraded all my...

Thanks for the quick reply. I would have thought that the failure to be able to upgrade armies was a problem though. I mean, in historical terms, is it reasonable to think that a civ that has upgraded all its units to use those new-fangled rifles, would keep an army of bronze age spearmen...

There may already be a post on this topic, but I couldn't find it. IS there some way to upgrade the units that you have put into armies in C3C? Or are you stuck with obsolete units in armies for ever more? I've been playing the conquests scenarios, and have had several armies filled with...

Were you playing on an easy difficulty level like I was? I played on Chieftain (cause I'm a chicken). I was going to try a much higher difficulty level next time ...

I have a quick look for a saved game last night, I'll look a bit harder today. I know that none of the leaders was a scientific leader, because I tried to use each one to rush a great wonder, and couldn't do it. They also all appeared at the scene of a combat, and not in the capital. I...

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or simply a standard feature of the unit, but when I was playing The Age of Discovery, I was building Missionaries in Europe, and found that I was unable to load them onto ships to travel to America: thus missionaries built in Europe could only be used to attack...

I was playing "Fall of Rome" as the Visigoths (cheiftain level) and kept getting Military Great Leaders (I had lots of elite Warlords running around). I made the first two leaders into armies, but didn't have enough cities to use the third one for an army. I fortified it in my capital, intending...

I found this scenario very easy (though I was playing on an easy level). I was playing as Spain. At the beginning of the game, I established ROP with the other European civs. I then rushed to America, and explored like crazy, making first contact with all the Indian civs. I traded contact with...

I played this scenario on the lowest dificulty level (haven't played CIV for a while) and found the Visigoths hard work. I attacked the Byzantines first (took Constantinople) and had it culture flip instantly, despite my 10 units in the city. So I took it again, and decided to raze all the Roman...