being angry

[dEnAt^]

have you ever benn angry because of this example ? :
enemy legion destroys my musketeer behind city walls, it happens 3 times in a row, then my catapult attacks enemy catapult and lose. i think in that case having weaker unit is better

 

[Zwelgje]

Stuff like that happens. Especially in higher levels the AI units are very strong. Maybe you'll like the battle system of Civ2 better...

 

[dEnAt^]

i'd love civ 1 with battle system from civ 2

 

[Zwelgje]

That would be my ideal civ-game too!!!

 

[Wil]

I understand you're angry, it happens to civ players all the time.

I never got the answer to this question: in a fight, are winning odds biased in favor of the computer players when you play at higher levels? The manual doesn't say so. Sometimes it seems that they are, but it is subjective.
Has anybody the knowledge, obectively?

 

[covok48]

I can empathize with you perfectly...

One game I attacked a Zulu Knight on a grassland and my cannon died. He then preceeded to kill three vetran fortified Musketeers and a settler unit that was defending Lyons (I was the French). I rushed built another musketeer and it died and then they captured the city and took gunpowder. So one Knight killed 6 vetran units. I quit in disgust.

 

[Imperial-Markus]

Ha I always freak out when the enemy phalanx beat my battleship and tanks. But now I'm wiser always save before major battles and after such nonsense happened zack reload and the city is mine. Thank goodness the AI isn't dump enough to repeat these silly things in the next round the phalanx get toasted just as it should be.
Just imagine spearmen marching against a battleship and beat it well perhaps they boarded it and afterwards sink it

 

[Wil]

Remember, it is the battleship that attacks, so maybe they had to land and fight an urban guerilla...

 

[addiv]

Originally posted by Imperial-Markus
Ha I always freak out when the enemy phalanx beat my battleship and tanks. But now I'm wiser always save before major battles and after such nonsense happened zack reload and the city is mine.

So you admit you are cheating? If you want to do it, fine with me, but Civ must get really easy and boring that way...

 

[Wil]

Not long ago, I wasn't winning. I toiled ages in the building of a veteran battleships. Once it was ready and launched, its first battle was to sink a dangerous transport. It was defeated.
I was rather angry and stopped playing in disgust.

Does anybody know if winning odds are biased in favor of the computer players when you play at higher levels?

 

[covok48]

I have a new one to add to the list.

Enemy militia unit kills two veteran riflemen and takes gunpowder.

I was in such shock I didn't realize my city had ben taken. I kept trying to click on it thinking the city screen would pop up...

 

[GenghisK]

Well I used to be mad once. I started a new game. 0 turn played I wanted to save the game so I pressed command+S but I did a mistake and pressed command+D for disband :s
I lost the game in 0 turn. ARg.

 

[Bob_Smurf]

 

[Ace]

The civ2 battle system is much better. The old one in civ is almost like flipping a coin, heads you win, tails the AI wins. There is a mathmatically formula involved, but the bottom line is that LUCK plays a big role. Even with overwhelming odds, the weaker unit still has a slim chance to win. The thing that used to really tick me off was losing a battleship to a settler. The only way that is possible is if the settler uses his shovel as a baseball bat and hits those 16 inch shells back at the battleship!!

Thats also one of the reasons I play civ2 now. But I still miss building railroads on the water.

 

[covok48]

I lost 18 chariots to 2 measly phalanx units on grassland. How's that for bad luck?

 

[cheater]

My settler beat 2 legions when he did Irrigation

 

[Bob_Smurf]

Settlers seem to be tougher when terraforming, as if they were fortified. This is the case in Civ2 as well, though to a lesser extent.

 

[Archer 007]

At least its not Civ 3's spearman beats tank

 

[cheater]

The Babylonians has stolen me a city! I atacked a Russian city and when it has no defense Babylonians take it

 

[Portuguese]

I did save and load some times because of this!!!