da_Vinci
Gypsy Prince
Two things to look at to explain the soft butter of your defense:Suddenly, out of nowhere, China declares war on me, with a wave of cavalry, cannon and riflemen. Luckily, I had just gotten redcoats. So, I thought, that is. Before was all said and done, I lost 4 cities to the Chinese. I retired in disgust, before my score got any lower. My redcoats may as well have been warriors. I lost nealry every battle, with my redcoats. Fortified in cities. Cities on hills. Didn't matter. Riflemen beat them. He lost maybe two cavalry. It was unreal. I figured I had maybe my worst battle luck in all of Civ 4. Here, I was saying "give me what you got". Thought my redcoats, with 25% vs horse and 25% vs gunpowder, would be good enough, with 4 per city. Forget it. They went through them like scissors through paper.
1. What kind of promotions did his units have? Or your units for that matter?
2. More likely the explanation, how many cannons battered your defenders before the cav and rifles attacked? If you look at the combat logs (if you still have saves of those time points), you can see this, but otherwise the exact nature of the AI attack may not be obvious.
Two or three rounds of collateral damage, with city defenses battered to 0, can make any defender a sitting duck.
dV