I love sinking ships

[FenrysWulf]

I don't know why, but sinking ships is so much more fun than destroying land units. There's just something about seeing that damned ship go to the bottom that makes me feel good inside. Does anyone else feel this way? It kind of makes me remember Colonization, except that I don't get a cargo of muskets and tobacco when I sink these ships.

 

[Raijer]

Originally posted by FenrysWulf
Does anyone else feel this way?

You bet. I often play large ocean games simply to have a large navy. I find the AI usually has a weak naval game, and I love to capitalize on this. I especially love sinking ships that I know contain ground troops bound for my shore!!

 

[vbraun]

I usually never build a naval unit (other then transport of troops) untill an opponent starts killing me with there ironclads i get really pissed and start building supirior naval units (Battleships) and start swarting off the naval pests.

 

[MaximusParthas]

Aaargh me maties. Thar be a certain satisfaction whilst capsizing yon flimsy galleys with The Queens own navy. Tis truly a shame that no booty be gotten.

I'm with you. Sinking those damn boats make me giggle.
like a kid.
Probably becuase civs disregard borders while in the water more than on land. My privateers have a good ole time regularly.

 

[Raijer]

Originally posted by MaximusParthas
Aaargh me maties. Thar be a certain satisfaction whilst capsizing yon flimsy galleys with The Queens own navy. Tis truly a shame that no booty be gotten.

yo ho ho!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Sinking ships is why I've modified submarines (and nuclear subs) in my game to be Hidden Nationality units. I hate when ROP nations abuse their privlege by clogging up my waterways.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

There is almost nothing as satisfying the sight of a treachorous AI ship being sent to the ocean floor. Well maybe actually winning the game

 

[robcheng]

There is something more satisfying than sinking ships: capturing them. And just wait 'till you hear the sound file played when you successfully capture an enemy ship.

 

[FenrysWulf]

Originally posted by robcheng
There is something more satisfying than sinking ships: capturing them. And just wait 'till you hear the sound file played when you successfully capture an enemy ship.

Is this a Conquests feature?

 

[MaximusParthas]

Yea. Izat a new feature in conquest? Oh well, comes out today. I'll find out later. (hell yea I'm gettiin mine)

 

[IglooDame]

Having served on the destroyer class that Civ3 uses as its destroyer icon, I'm always shocked and appalled when one gets sunk, but as the AI generally doesn't get a chance to build them (I'm up to Regent, and tend to be a "Compassionate Warmonger" type player) it doesn't happen much. Given the new Conquest rules with aircraft lethality and more realistic submarine detection and attacks, I'm most looking forward to that WW2-Pacific scenario, and may have to start playing Monarch on a huge archipelago just to play 'real' naval combat instead of having a bombardment-blockade navy.

 

[Dr Tiny]

I read the air and sea units are bieng improved a lot with conquests so I am really looking forward to playing with the new toys. I really like making a huge armada to support my ground troops and having large combined arms armys. I also name my modern age ships after the city that built them, I think I need to get out more

 

[FenrysWulf]

DrTiny- Sometimes I name my ships after famous ships from history, like the Missouri, Arizona, Yorktown, Monitor, Merrimac, Constitution, Golden Hind, etc. I was a little surprised at how many I could think of. It always hurts even more when the U.S.S. Enterprise gets sunk than if it's just a random ship.

 

[IglooDame]

Hehehehe - sounds like me when I was playing Empire, I'd never leave the ship name with it's default. I only recently figured out that I could rename units (other than after GL-producing battles) so now all my ships bear historically-proper names, although exclusively American ones.

 

[Angelscotboi]

Originally posted by FenrysWulf
DrTiny- Sometimes I name my ships after famous ships from history, like the Missouri, Arizona, Yorktown, Monitor, Merrimac, Constitution, Golden Hind, etc. I was a little surprised at how many I could think of. It always hurts even more when the U.S.S. Enterprise gets sunk than if it's just a random ship.

You mean of course American history not history or world history - the only famous ships out of those lot apart from the USS Enterprise(and its famous cos of Star Trek not the US Navy) is the Monitor and Merrimack in a world famous kindof sense.

If you run out of American warships to name ur ships after why not,***sarcasm alert*** heres a thought, name them after ships from other countries that have more famous ships - more famous navies etc - for example the HMS Invincible the UK.

 

[YankeeDog]

Originally posted by lmsw08233
You mean of course American history not history or world history - the only famous ships out of those lot apart from the USS Enterprise(and its famous cos of Star Trek not the US Navy) is the Monitor and Merrimack in a world famous kindof sense.

Yeah... American ships like the Golden Hind. I guess Sir Francis Drake is from the lower east side of Manhattan.

 

[joycem10]

i thought he was a nice jewish boy from brooklyn?

 

[Sparrow3]

Originally posted by lmsw08233
If you run out of American warships to name ur ships after why not,***sarcasm alert*** heres a thought, name them after ships from other countries that have more famous ships - more famous navies etc - for example the HMS Invincible the UK.

Here's another thought: Why don't we open a thread "Ship names of all nations". Where people can post the names of famous or not so famous ships of their nation. I know the names of US Navy ships; but admit I am less familiar with the ships of UK, France, Italy, Ottomans, Scandenavia, Japan, etc.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Captured my first ship last night! Attacked a Neoplatian privateer with my own Privateer (you can tell by the color) and enslaved it.


What about the CSS Alabama and the USS Maine ? Didn't the sinking of the Maine (and the yellow journalism about it) lead in the Spanish-American war? The
Alabama was the foremost commerce raider in the Civil War until she was ever so rudely sunk by the USS Kearsarge ...

 

[Dr Tiny]

off the top of my head, some British/English ship names

Maryrose - Pride of Henry VIII's navy and sank in the channel
HMS Beagle - Took Darwin to the Galapogas islands
HMS Hood - sunk in WWII by the Bismarck(?)
HMS Ark Royal - The navies flagship, there have been 7(?) Ark Royals and some didnt sink
Titanic - sank on maiden voyage
Great Western - designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he never lived to see its construction and several people were trapped alive inside the double hull.
Aurora - famous recently for a viral infection during a pleasure cruise


we have had lots of ships though and I am not a big enough Navy buff to know their names. Of interest would be Cook's ship and Raliegh's pirate ship. Also the ships under the command of Nelson.