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to get the iron to your capital, what you have to do is build a harbor in one of the cities on teh island, and then have a harbor in one of the main continent cities that is connected to your capital, this is how you can get resources from islands back to your capital...Coal won't appear until you have researched the tech that also gives railroads. So if you don't have that tech yet, you won't see any coal either
One way to quickly get a Harbor on one of those cities is to shut your Science research down to 0%. Hopefully, you have a good economy going and can get 200-400 gold per turn. Wait about 4 turns and since you are in Democracy, you should have enough money to just buy the Harbor.
Sometimes these island cities take 40-80 turns to build without help due to corruption since they are so far from the Capital and have no luxuries until the harbor is built. Since, you really do need iron, you need to get the harbor up as quickly as possible. Make sure you have built a road from the city with the harbor to the iron.
Also, you will need a harbor on your mainland too for the connection to work.
Sometimes these island cities take 40-80 turns to build without help due to corruption since they are so far from the Capital and have no luxuries until the harbor is built. Since, you really do need iron, you need to get the harbor up as quickly as possible. Make sure you have built a road from the city with the harbor to the iron.
Also, you will need a harbor on your mainland too for the connection to work.
actually quite different, rifleman is usually used for defense, whereas the swordsman is more offense, the best way to compare them is look at their attacks and defences, all of this is available in the civilpedia...also, are the other points you have been asking about more clear now and making sense?
A swordsman has an attack of 3 and a defense of 2
A rifleman has an attack of 4 and a defense of 6
The swordsman is an excellent attacker in the Ancient Age and beginning Middle Ages.
I personally prefer the Horseman although they have an attack of 2 and a defense of 1. My reasons for this is that they will upgrade to Knights (attack of 4; defense of 3 and evenually Cavalry attack of 6 defnse of 3), they have the withdraw ability, and they can move 2 spaces.
You can stack 15 horsemen outside of an opponents city and have them attack their spearmen. When the horseman starts to lose, he will automatically stop fighting most of the time, unless fighting another fast unit. By the end of the fight, you will hopefully have almost all the horsemen you started out with and will not have to rebuild them all from scratch.
Another strategy that I use is to get 8-10 horsemen along with 5 swordsmen. I have the horsemen attack and hopefully withdraw if they start to lose and then the swordsmen finish off the city.
This of course only works in the Ancient age with these units.
The rifleman will eventually upgrade to Infantry(attack of 6 defense of 10) and the swordsman can never be upgraded.
A rifleman has an attack of 4 and a defense of 6
The swordsman is an excellent attacker in the Ancient Age and beginning Middle Ages.
I personally prefer the Horseman although they have an attack of 2 and a defense of 1. My reasons for this is that they will upgrade to Knights (attack of 4; defense of 3 and evenually Cavalry attack of 6 defnse of 3), they have the withdraw ability, and they can move 2 spaces.
You can stack 15 horsemen outside of an opponents city and have them attack their spearmen. When the horseman starts to lose, he will automatically stop fighting most of the time, unless fighting another fast unit. By the end of the fight, you will hopefully have almost all the horsemen you started out with and will not have to rebuild them all from scratch.
Another strategy that I use is to get 8-10 horsemen along with 5 swordsmen. I have the horsemen attack and hopefully withdraw if they start to lose and then the swordsmen finish off the city.
This of course only works in the Ancient age with these units.
The rifleman will eventually upgrade to Infantry(attack of 6 defense of 10) and the swordsman can never be upgraded.
thanks for the tip that millitary units cost money, i had more than 100 so i disbanded a bunch and got shields for some, i have 294 gold now after 5 minutes or so but im planting forests around the borders of rival's towns for defense then making my workers build mines in city limits, any other advice? hoping to increase production to make a harbor and transport iron around
i have two horsemen, its hard to distinguish game from horses, so i was slow at getting horses,use the civilpedia, it has all the requirements for all units and buildings. Also, with so many units, to upgrade them all at once, as long as you have barracks, and the units are all in cities with them, then you can use 'shift-u' to upgrade all your units at once, if you have the money to do them all at once.
Glad to be of help. I wouldn't go through the trouble of planting forests. Use the terrain already available. More than likely there are plenty of hills or mountains around your rival civs. Also, be sure NOT to attack across a river as that gives the defender a bonus, specially when assaulting a city with 6 or more population.
Edit: I think you only need horses for chariots, but I'm not 100% on that. Check the 'pedia.
Edit: I think you only need horses for chariots, but I'm not 100% on that. Check the 'pedia.
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@ifyjo,
I don't know why you want to build chariots (unless you are Egypt), but usually building them is not a very good idea. It's better to build horsemen (you need horses) or archers (no resource needed).
There are a set of good advices at the War Academy in CFC:
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/
If you want more specific advices, you can upload here a save (file with .sav) from your game and can get a lot of very straight forward ideas from a lot of players.
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I don't know why you want to build chariots (unless you are Egypt), but usually building them is not a very good idea. It's better to build horsemen (you need horses) or archers (no resource needed).
There are a set of good advices at the War Academy in CFC:
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/
If you want more specific advices, you can upload here a save (file with .sav) from your game and can get a lot of very straight forward ideas from a lot of players.
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You need The Wheel and Horses to research Chariots, but it is one of the most useless units in the game. Horseback Riding comes immediately after the wheel and Horsemen are better(attack of 2 compared to 1)
I've never heard of building forests for defense before attacking. Forests only increase the defense bonus for a unit by 25% so it's probably not worth your workers time unless you are building the forest on tundra. You probably don't want to lose Plains or Grasslands by building Forests since you can only get 1 Food from a forest.
I've never heard of building forests for defense before attacking. Forests only increase the defense bonus for a unit by 25% so it's probably not worth your workers time unless you are building the forest on tundra. You probably don't want to lose Plains or Grasslands by building Forests since you can only get 1 Food from a forest.
That is because once you have researched Horseback Riding, you cannot build an inferior unit. It is just like once you have Gunpowder and your city is connected to Saltpeter, you cannot build Spearman.
There is actually no way to build Chariots once you have Horseback Riding since if you disconnect your city from Horses, you cannot build Chariots and if you connect Horses to your city, you will have to build Horsemen or Knights or Cavalry depending on what your resources are to that city.
Knights(Horses and Iron)
Cavalry(Horses and Saltpeter)
There is actually no way to build Chariots once you have Horseback Riding since if you disconnect your city from Horses, you cannot build Chariots and if you connect Horses to your city, you will have to build Horsemen or Knights or Cavalry depending on what your resources are to that city.
Knights(Horses and Iron)
Cavalry(Horses and Saltpeter)
That's because Horsemen supercede Chariots.
Edit: shumble is *quick* !
Edit: shumble is *quick* !
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There are two type of Chariots:ifyjo said:
1- Chariots: for this you need horses (and the wheel tech off course)
2- War Chariots: only Egypt can build them
For both of them, you need to make sure that the city in which you want to build them has access to horses (having a road from the capital to the horses icon).
If you really have access to horses resources and have the Wheel Tech you should be able to build Chariots.
EDIT: Unless you can build horseman which prevents you from building Chariots! Off course! Duh!
NOTE: If you are Egypt you can only build War Chariots and not Chariots (which wouldn't make sense as the War Chariot is better than the regular Chariot)
Shumble AND Padma are quick!!!Padma said:
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