Alright, i've never done this before but I thought just what could be good about the Korean hwacha? I thought about it and now I believe that the best way to use it is not to eliminate enemy stacks - thats just not what it is for. That is thinking inside the box. Instead, you could make 3 squadrons of 10 infantry, 15 artillery and 10 hwacha and placed each squadron on mountains next to enemy cities or across a river from a city. Every turn, they might send cavalry to attack these squadrons but from experience I know that if your stack is big enough with lots of infantry they sometimes hesitate to attack it. So your squadrons are next to these enemy metros. Now you wake your artillery and blast all 15 shots into the city so all the defenders in that city are redlined. Now wake your hwacha and do em away. Now the cities are empty but DO NOT send in a unit to capture it. Let the turn finish and the enemy will send in extra units to defend that city and possibly even draft or whip that city for more units. You do this procedure again and again every single turn until they run out of units and population points. It would work very well because they hesitate to attack your stack and because they always send extra units to fill in those empty cities. Pretty soon, they will be defenseless and unable to do any research nevermind get to discover Flight because they are spending on military production. When it looks like they've had enough, out come your cavalry and sweep em off the face of the planet.
Just What in the World is Good about the Hwacha? My Hypothesis:
- Thread starter axehaxe
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I would image that would work as long as you are not in a game where the AI is much stronger than the human (deity/sid AWDG) and would surely have flight by the time you had infantry.
In that case you would get a nice taste of leathal bombadment.
In that case you would get a nice taste of leathal bombadment.
zerksees
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This could also work attacking enemy invading units.
I don't know what this hwacha is, but as I'm living in Korea the last few years, let me tell you, the special unit of the Koreans is the Turtle boat: a covered sailing ship which Admiral Yi used to turn the tide against the Japanese in the 1500s. If I've read one, I've read 500 ESL essays about this, and if Civ wants to sell to Koreans (I have Civ3 in Korean), they definately need to make Admiral Yi's amazing turtle boat the Koreans special unit, there is not one Korean boy who is not familiar with it.
Good thinking outside the box.
Good thinking outside the box.
