Lord Emsworth
Emperor
I have known and been using this for some time now, but I have never seen anybody else point it out.
Infantries are those units that come with Replacable Parts, have 6/10/1 as stats and require Rubber. And it doesn't really matter what experience level they have. It works for veteran units just as well as for regulars.
Fortresses are tile improvements that come with Construction and give the Defender a bonus of 50%.
Units equal to or below an attack of six are of course other Infantries, Cavs, and everything that is earlier.
OK, I think I need to point out that I still play Vanilla, and I do not know how far this applies to the more widespread Conquests extension.
But for me it has worked out as a pretty strong battlefield technique/exploit. I have used it to effectively block attack routes to (just conquered) cities, protect workers connecting just conquered cities, completely seal off even wider chokepoints etc pp. True, armies can do the same (and more), but Infantries+Fortresses are far cheaper.
Anybody else noticed this or something similar?
Infantries which are placed in a fortress are never attacked by the AI with units equal to or below an attack of six.
Infantries are those units that come with Replacable Parts, have 6/10/1 as stats and require Rubber. And it doesn't really matter what experience level they have. It works for veteran units just as well as for regulars.
Fortresses are tile improvements that come with Construction and give the Defender a bonus of 50%.
Units equal to or below an attack of six are of course other Infantries, Cavs, and everything that is earlier.
OK, I think I need to point out that I still play Vanilla, and I do not know how far this applies to the more widespread Conquests extension.
But for me it has worked out as a pretty strong battlefield technique/exploit. I have used it to effectively block attack routes to (just conquered) cities, protect workers connecting just conquered cities, completely seal off even wider chokepoints etc pp. True, armies can do the same (and more), but Infantries+Fortresses are far cheaper.
Anybody else noticed this or something similar?