PurpleTurtle
Shellshocked
I have been playing an emperor huge marathon 18 civ game as Wang Kon. I have been doing quite well in general but have a problem. Augustus Caesar just declared war on me and came at one of my cities with four prats and two chariots. I have two archers, a warrior and two hwacha in this city and was thinking therefore that I would soon see a display of korean pyrotechnic prowess. However, no matter how many times I reload(yes I have random seed on reload turned on) he kills all of my units and burns the city.
My beef with this is simply that an unpromoted prat(as is the case with these) has just 8 strength, yet a hwacha has 5 *and* 50% against melee. My understanding of a bonus against a unit may be faulty, but I believe it reduces the opponent's strength by the specified amount. So the prat would be a 4, and the hwacha stays a 5, this would seem to at least give the hwacha the occasional shot at a win right? Yet the prat wins *EVERY TIME*. The prat even takes no damage most of the time. The truly frustrating part is that none of the archers can manage a win either, they of course have garrison 1 and drill 1. The city has a wall and just recieved a great artist which bumped it up to 60% city defense, and all of the units have been fortified for more than five turns.
Thoughts?
My beef with this is simply that an unpromoted prat(as is the case with these) has just 8 strength, yet a hwacha has 5 *and* 50% against melee. My understanding of a bonus against a unit may be faulty, but I believe it reduces the opponent's strength by the specified amount. So the prat would be a 4, and the hwacha stays a 5, this would seem to at least give the hwacha the occasional shot at a win right? Yet the prat wins *EVERY TIME*. The prat even takes no damage most of the time. The truly frustrating part is that none of the archers can manage a win either, they of course have garrison 1 and drill 1. The city has a wall and just recieved a great artist which bumped it up to 60% city defense, and all of the units have been fortified for more than five turns.
Thoughts?