Assistance?

[Little Alex]

Hello,

I'm a huge Civ nut, I beat Civ 1 back when I was in third grade and have been obssessed ever since... I got Civ 3 about three weeks ago, right beofre I moved from Boston to LA, got my G4 all set up, went to go play my new game and low and behold, I left the instruction booklet in Boston.

I've got the basic nuances of the game down, though there are a couple things I needed a little help on.

Is there any way to stack units, like in Call To Power? I used to love stacking together 8 tanks and taking a rival's capital hostage. I'm more of a builder than a combatant, but, you know, sometimes you just gotta roll up your sleeves...

I was in the process of slaughtering the French playing as the Chinese, and had a single swordman who I used to raze about six of their cities (couldn't be bothered to send more troops overseas). I had just finished doing in the last longbowman in Lyons when it gave me a leader (Khubli Khan?). How do I benefiet from having a leader?

And lastly, more strategic than anything else, but, it seems was harder to keep money coming in in Civ 3 than previous incarnations. What are your tatics for mainaining a decent-sized army and an infastructure of workers and not end up going into the red?

Thanks!

 

[Shogoth]

hello Little Alex, welcome to our forum!

you can use leaders for 2 things:

1) rush improvements, you can build a great wonder in 1 turn!
2) build an army. you can put together 3 knights in a army, they won't die until the last hp of the army is gone. armies are nice to crack the biggest defender in a big city. as soon as your army has won the first fight you'll be able to construct the heroic epic which will increase the chance of getting a new leader (which come only from elite units, and only once per unit). You can only have one leader at a time.

stacking unfortunately doesn't work. but you can move a stack of same units by pressing "j".

for the last question:

1. check out for corruption. it's very high in civ3!
2. trade as hell! trade luxuries, ressources and techs! especially if you manage to be techleader you should be able to earn tons of cash by techwhoring. and the ai doesn't have money left for research

happy civving