Recent content by mark.summers

Up until now, it was so far, so good with the specialist units, unfortunately Meier seems to have followed Dumas' fantasy rather than history in creating this unit. This is also borne out in the somewhat inacurrate history of them posted in Civ of the Week on civ3.com .The big thing about the...

Is it just me or are the graphics for irrigation in civ3 shocking? It would look OK for playing China or Japan as they look like rice paddis but for western irrigation it just looks like a swamp or flooded fields. (suppose you can't have nation specific irrigation although they managed it with...

mmm, yes maybe a T34 would have been a better choice of unit. Anyone know what the Germans are getting? A King Tiger tank? Stormtroopers? Or could it be something from a much earlier era like a Teutonic Knight or an Uhlan? Be interesting to see the other special units: France - King's...

btw Cossacks add-on with an official editor (not the hidden one in Ukranian) should be out around the same time as Civ3. This should kill any boredom factor in Cossacks (although I pity you Dell19, you must be bored of life or playing the thing 24seven). The idea of building scenarios in...

the reason why militaristic would be inappropriate for the Russians is not because they haven't historically had vast armed forces, they have, like the Chinese. The reasons are: 1) historically they took ages to mobilise and operate their armed forces 2) aside from a hard corps of elites the...

Thanks Gengis. Now that I have Civ2 working again for Win2000 on my new computer I'm looking forward to making lots of contributions. I hope to get my library of scenarios loaded up as well too. I purchased Civ2 in France on the first day it came out (about 2 months before the UK) and I've been...

3D Action: Has to be Unreal Tournament for the sheer wanton gratuitous violence and cheesy one-liners in it. I do have fond memories for the original game in that genre Wolfenstein 3D. Strategy: The all new Cossacks from CDV is superb and trounces AoE by miles. A class act. Civ2 still remains...

Back to what was said earlier in this thread about Cossacks. Sorry but Cossacks treads AoE right into the dirt. It may look like AoE but everything about it is 100 times better. The AI and complexity of the thing for starters as well as the graphics. The historic details are, on the whole, right...