Attack/Defense

[Light-Giver]

I noticed even when attacking you should send a few defencive units with them, always sofen up a city if posible, also there is a defencive bonus for diffrent types of terrain, like mountins which has what i beleave is a 200% defence bonus, improvements like radar also increases it can be smart to attack but let them charge at you in a picked battle area. I remember i attacked a motropolis and it was the Egypian capital with 2.5 times their number, all modern armor, they were defending with mec infentry and i didnt bomb them that much. I got woped, i had just 2 eliet armors left both with 1 heath and was forced to end the war just 1 step away from their capital.

I beleave most tarrain like plains give just a 5% bonus and others like 10-15%, i think mountins and jungle give the most defence bonus, followed by hills.

 

[sercer88]

all terrains besides sea and ocean provide at least 10% defense bonus (even coast has 10% defense...but sea and ocean have none.)

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Actually, IIRC, the editor says that all sea-level terrain (including ocean and sea) has a 10% def bonus. Very stupid if you ask me.

 

[sercer88]

Really? well, I wonder what made me think it didn't...

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Maybe that oceans and sea give less food and stuff than coast ? Frankly, is a certain piece of ocean going to have some cover, or is a grassland going to have grass so tall that entire legions of men can hide unnoticed in them? No. That 10% def bonus is really annoying in the later ages, when up to 1.8 def can be added (that's no small number).

 

[Light-Giver]

anyways its my point if you got better defenders than offenders try to trick them into attacking you in a good defencive terrain, its all about picking the place of battle, if your on the offencive try a flat plan if on the defencive head for the hills.

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

I think the AI evaluates any battle and determines its chance of winning, and if the odds are in their favor, they attack, so they will never fight a well-defended area. However, they have no concept of wearing enemies down, so they will never attack even if they outnumber you 10 to 1.

 

[pol1]

sometimes they will attack.
e.g. : if You have a town in their territory, AI will eventually kill even the strongest army, simply by numbers.
BUT in the open field AI calculates chances 1 on 1.

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Unless they have bombers. In that case they will go mad and bomb anything without a flak.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I remember when first starting out (my first game) I was puzzled by my spearmen's inability to win when attacking my rival's cities. I was used to the Age of Kings idea of spearmen as being cheap infantry units -- not the case in Civ3. I had that same problem when I attacked with my Jaguar Warriors. Happily, I learned my lesson after only one or two battles. I still have a screenshot of my spearmen massing outside of a Iroqious city, though.