How to defend against amphibious assault?
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CIVPhilzilla
Reagan Republican
Get a navy, take out their ships before they get to you. Have cannons or whatever ur current artillery unit to bombard the ship first to weaken. Make sure your defenses are strong and try to go on the offensive to take him out.
The best tactics against zerks are to sink the ships that carry them. A strong navy is the best defense as CPZ says. Zerks are nowhere so effective if they have to leave their ships to survive.
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
MagyarM, haven't I seen you somewhere before? 
As mentioned elsewhere, sink dem ships!
As mentioned elsewhere, sink dem ships!
CerberusIV
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In a PBEM you are facing an opponent who knows how to use Berserks, unlike the AI.
Don't build coastal cities if you can avoid it. As far as territory permits put your cities a couple of tiles inland. If you need a few ports then keep those cities small so you don't lose much if they are captured or razed.
Berserks on land are easy for even horsemen to kill but especially vulnerable to knights. So force them to trek across land tiles.
Once you get to Astronomy you can build caravels which galleys find difficult to destroy so you can position caravels on the coastal tiles next to your ports and force the Berserks to land somewhere else. If you only have galleys use them aggressively. If it takes you the loss of 2 galleys to sink one galley containing 2 Berserks you lose 60 shields of units, your opponent 170. The Scandies can't keep that up for long.
I am playing the Middle Ages Conquest as a PBEM as the Franks. The Danish player attacked on turn 1 so I know all about Berserks. On one turn my swordsmen killed 3 for the loss of one swordsman. That is the way to go against such expensive units.
Don't build coastal cities if you can avoid it. As far as territory permits put your cities a couple of tiles inland. If you need a few ports then keep those cities small so you don't lose much if they are captured or razed.
Berserks on land are easy for even horsemen to kill but especially vulnerable to knights. So force them to trek across land tiles.
Once you get to Astronomy you can build caravels which galleys find difficult to destroy so you can position caravels on the coastal tiles next to your ports and force the Berserks to land somewhere else. If you only have galleys use them aggressively. If it takes you the loss of 2 galleys to sink one galley containing 2 Berserks you lose 60 shields of units, your opponent 170. The Scandies can't keep that up for long.
I am playing the Middle Ages Conquest as a PBEM as the Franks. The Danish player attacked on turn 1 so I know all about Berserks. On one turn my swordsmen killed 3 for the loss of one swordsman. That is the way to go against such expensive units.
Anarres: Hmm, now that you say it... do you also visit the Civaholics anonymous? 
Rest: The problem is that a quite a lot cities are coastal since the continent i'm on isn't that big. Thanks for all the suggestions - i'll try to make the best out of it. :arrow:
Rest: The problem is that a quite a lot cities are coastal since the continent i'm on isn't that big. Thanks for all the suggestions - i'll try to make the best out of it. :arrow:
zerksees
in remission
I agree - get them while they are in their ships.
One option, if you know where the ships are coming from, is to send your ships towards them and harass them.
If you have the Great Lighthouse, you might even be able to form some type of blockade so he will have to attack your ships before coming through.
For defense, make sure you have walls or size 7+ cities. Catapults aren't very popular, but would be effective in this case. If you can drop a berserk down by one HP it makes it that much more likely that your unit will survice the onslaught.
Another option is to hit them after the initial assault. If you have catapults, they can be used in the initial assault, and to hit the ships before you attack with your own ships. Just make sure you have enough units in the city to defend the initial assault.
IMO berserks are the absolute worst enemy you could have in this game, because they can't be controlled with the conventional land defense tactics that I regularly use. Of course once you get riflemen they lose their advantage but they definitel have their time to shine in this game.
One option, if you know where the ships are coming from, is to send your ships towards them and harass them.
If you have the Great Lighthouse, you might even be able to form some type of blockade so he will have to attack your ships before coming through.
For defense, make sure you have walls or size 7+ cities. Catapults aren't very popular, but would be effective in this case. If you can drop a berserk down by one HP it makes it that much more likely that your unit will survice the onslaught.
Another option is to hit them after the initial assault. If you have catapults, they can be used in the initial assault, and to hit the ships before you attack with your own ships. Just make sure you have enough units in the city to defend the initial assault.
IMO berserks are the absolute worst enemy you could have in this game, because they can't be controlled with the conventional land defense tactics that I regularly use. Of course once you get riflemen they lose their advantage but they definitel have their time to shine in this game.
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
MagyarM, check this post I responded to elsewhere this morning - you can see why I thought you were the same person! 
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1483
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1483
