Recent content by Rife

First time I played I thought the same thing, until I realized what many have already said... The F-15s don't work. They only make sense for air superiority and you WILL NOT EVER shoot down an enemy bomber. You could build a hundred of them (I had like 6 in one city on air superiority at...

The way I get around this is simple. If you like them then just get a right of passage agreement, but while doing that make sure to keep a close eye out for resources outside your boundaries. If you don't like them, then fight. In my experience, they most often choose to move...

Really, going from Civ II to Civ III you should get smoked your first time or two out, because your Civ II instincts are just all wrong for Civ III. The exception I suppose would be those rare few that actually read the manual and learn the game first ;) I got taken over by the Aztecs in...

LOL, newbie? The game is only a few weeks old! That's funny stuff ;)

Oh, and I just sent them a letter. That seems to me like a rather major thing to NOT be caught in testing.

Oh, and he is right, airports don't help. All of my cities had airports.

I saw the same thing. I was the Americans and had no rubber. My only advantage was the F-15 fighters I built in BIG numbers. However, he would bomb my cities turn after turn with bomber after bomber and not one single one ever got shot down. HOWEVER, he did shoot down the very first bomber I...

In one of my games the Persians just CRUSHED the civ next to them (I forget who it was). They even allied with the Germans and they helped. At one point they had 6 battleships bombarding the same city. It was rather impressive. The downside is they turned on me next.

Oh, it should also be noted that ALL units and citizens in the game know where they are from. Therefore, citizens that are native of the other civilization will by nature want to go back. I agree though that it does seem odd that you lose everything just suddenly though, but it is more...

Right, my take on it is that the intent is for you to NOT build your civilization just by grabbing his cities. They were loyal before and will stay loyal even if you may have troops there. That is my initial impression anyway, and that would suggest that you should place a priority on...

How the heck did you rush the granary? I am assuming you mean at the start of the game. When I try to rush under despotism it says it will kill everyone in the city to do it (seemed rather extreme to me so I declined). You can't rush build with gold until monarchy and that for me at least...

I have yet to decide if it is better to build or take cities. The main problem with taking cities is that they are not native and may not stay around for very long, but building cities can really hold back your development a lot as cities seem to grow slow, but steady with the lack of...

On Cultural assimilation near as I can tell it goes by the pressure on that one city only. Cities that you take that are surrounded by other enemy cities can be hard to hold onto. I had that problem too but it also works for me sometimes. They may take a city and my guys revolt and go...

The part about Units is very true. I just learned that lesson the hard way. I was the Americans and it is humbling when you start a war only to find swarms of Jaguar warriors overrunning your civilization. Much more realistic and strategic now. I also noted that all transports move with...

Yeah, first game I played all the way through I went all game with no rubber and was at war with the only civ that had some I could get. I never did get any rubber all game. So, needless to say I had to use a lot of ships and a huge air force. I almost won that game (warlord also) but...