Deep sea screwing still around?

[Alan McG]

It has been a while since I last played Civ5. I was thinking about giving it another try with the new patches and I wonder.. can a barbarian in a canoe still sink my embarked tanks and modern infantry units with total impunity?

 

[TW_Honorius]

I assume have they given land units the chance to fight back while at sea, in which case no. Songhai is still the only civ that does what you are asking.

 

[Alan McG]

OK, thanks. How disappointing..

 

[ColinTH]

If you get the Naval Tradition policy from the commerce Policy Tree then your troops will be protected.

 

[funat]

It has been a while since I last played Civ5. I was thinking about giving it another try with the new patches and I wonder.. can a barbarian in a canoe still sink my embarked tanks and modern infantry units with total impunity?

if it can - it's totaly real. remember USS Cole (a warship) or Iranian speedboats loaded with explosives.
barbarians in modern era are equivalent to guerillas or terrorist orgs - not some poor mthfcks with bows and arrows.

 

[TW_Honorius]

if it can - it's totaly real. remember USS Cole (a warship) or Iranian speedboats loaded with explosives.
barbarians in modern era are equivalent to guerillas or terrorist orgs - not some poor mthfcks with bows and arrows.

ur post has no merit to this discussion and in no way provided an applicable answer to the OPs question.

 

[Iggwilv]

Think of it as an unarmed troop ship caught unescorted by a frigate. The frigate can stand off and fill the ship with 5-inch shells until its done. Don't leave your embarked troops alone. The real problem seems the AI doesn't seem to factor how vulnerable his troops are when he embarks them.

 

[ShahJahanII]

Songhai is still the only civ that does what you are asking.

Denmark too, if you buy the dlc.

 

[corrin]

The real problem seems the AI doesn't seem to factor how vulnerable his troops are when he embarks them.

This is a big problem. The AI seems to be incapable of rerouting once they are underway. The result is that they just keep moving forward hoping to break through a blockade despite the fact that not one is getting through. At least the AI will avoid the same mistake sometimes and take a different approach for the second wave.

 

[Adjuvant]

ur post has no merit to this discussion and in no way provided an applicable answer to the OPs question.

His post made sense to me. I hadn't thought of it that way and it probably should be that way, actually. "Embarked" units are on, generally, lightly armed and armored transports; not even a destroyer as the USS Cole was, but then again, the Cole wasn't utterly destroyed, either.