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It's Mass Production that makes transports available. I thought it could become relevant for transport between the other continent and Greece, but I haven't looked at the save or the map for a while.
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It's combustion; I'm 100% positive. Mass Production makes the useless naval toys available.
ThinkTank
RL Addict
Own is right, combustion gives transports.
I think we do not stricly need to wait for transports for the invasion, as Salarakas also argues, and if this is right, we should take atomic theory and electronics as free techs, since these are also prereqs for tanks, they are the most expensive techs, and choosing other techs we do not really need will just delay tanks.
Bartleby
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lurker's comment: You don't need AT & electronics for tanks.
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Deity
I guess, when I thought Mass Production was needed for transports, I was only looking at the small pictures and mistook the carrier for the transport. 
This is the period that I find the game becoming almost unplayable and I get lost in the woods.
This is the period that I find the game becoming almost unplayable and I get lost in the woods.
Since our target right now is Arabia. Do we want to make peace with Egypt and Persia when possible? Arabia already has a ROP with Persia.
We can get a peace treaty and 10 gpt from Egypt for example. Persians are of course still ignoring us.
We can get a peace treaty and 10 gpt from Egypt for example. Persians are of course still ignoring us.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
Egypt is at war with us via MPP, so they are not a source of War Happiness, so peace there is desirable. I think one change between PTW and Conquests was that they removed AT and Electronics as pre-requisites for Motorized Transportation. We should research to that point, anyway(MT), so if we start having bad luck with Cavalry, we can hit with Tanks.
I wouldn't make peace with them unless absolutely necessary. If we sail straight west and found a town there (after razing that one Arab town), the Persian borders will be really close. Send the armies there and raze everything while dealing with the enemy troops with artillery/cav. We are at a point where we can pretty much go always war and still advance without any real drawbacks so just keep advancing. I would raze all towns and go for the conquest victory although we need marines for that. It's just more fun than domination in my opinion although I don't expect to see the game again regardless of what you guys do.
ThinkTank
RL Addict
Right. I was using the C3C data file as I wrote that post, which I normally do when I do not have access to the game, and I find it a very useful file, but this is an error in it, as it does list AT and electronics as prereq for tanks:
Spoiler :
But the game itself indeed shows this is wrong.
(If you are interested in the reference file as it is normally very useful you can find it at http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/reference).
This probably explains the error in the reference file.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
Note the presence of Radio, which was also a change between PTW and Conquests (it was removed). Unfortunately, most of the reference material in the War Academy does not cover Conquests.
I've played my first 8 turns so far, but ran out of time. I'll finish and post my turnset tomorrow. We've so far started the war with the Arabs and the Greeks also declared. Which means we're at war with everybody except for the Romans right now.
There's not much opposition though...
There's not much opposition though...
They will come in numbers soon though so be sure to get our boats back to our shores in order to bring in reinforcements.
I would raze at least all the towns in the vicinity of our beachhead town. If we want to go for domination we can later replace those easily with all the settlers we have/will have. The beach head town should get walls and a barracks asap. Harbor isn't necessary but will help later when we have the forces to control some other luxes. All armies should focus on razing towns while I would keep all other units inside the beach head town until the flood of enemy units has stopped. Keep the armies stacked too so that if one gets heavily injured, it can be covered by another one. Stacked 4 unit cavalry armies can take down towns defended by rifles without the help of artillery, especially now that we have the military academy as well. Infantry are sterner stuff but we'll get tanks soon for that.
Basic stuff, perhaps, but just saying
I would raze at least all the towns in the vicinity of our beachhead town. If we want to go for domination we can later replace those easily with all the settlers we have/will have. The beach head town should get walls and a barracks asap. Harbor isn't necessary but will help later when we have the forces to control some other luxes. All armies should focus on razing towns while I would keep all other units inside the beach head town until the flood of enemy units has stopped. Keep the armies stacked too so that if one gets heavily injured, it can be covered by another one. Stacked 4 unit cavalry armies can take down towns defended by rifles without the help of artillery, especially now that we have the military academy as well. Infantry are sterner stuff but we'll get tanks soon for that.
Basic stuff, perhaps, but just saying
Finished my turnset. Points for the following player. I had a lot of settlers popping and forgot to MM the scy farms which cost us a turn or two. They probably need a little attention.
I didn't settle much because I understand we're going for domination. My suggestion is to settle a long strip coast to coast on the other continent, get a harbor set up so we can rail road it. Other than that I don't see us needing to keep anyhing at this point.
Ohh and there's a settler sw of Neo Maya I think that got stranded there by misclick. It should be fine, but might be good to make sure it can't get attacked this turn.
I didn't settle much because I understand we're going for domination. My suggestion is to settle a long strip coast to coast on the other continent, get a harbor set up so we can rail road it. Other than that I don't see us needing to keep anyhing at this point.
Ohh and there's a settler sw of Neo Maya I think that got stranded there by misclick. It should be fine, but might be good to make sure it can't get attacked this turn.
Spoiler :
. I'll just be where I was on the roster before; I don't have to go up next.
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Deity
Well, I expected you to be fully aware of the order of course, and so any hiding from responsibility would be explained as ostriching! 
Of course, there is also the advantage that I can stay astray a bit longer if others go first!
But joking aside, that is the roster I put together on July 17; check post #356. I had expected this pace.
Of course, there is also the advantage that I can stay astray a bit longer if others go first!
But joking aside, that is the roster I put together on July 17; check post #356. I had expected this pace.
ThinkTank
RL Addict
Welcome back Own! Looks like you're up.
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