Picture this...

[monkeyman116]

Imagine the scenario: I have been started several times on a single square island. So imagine that a civ has a large city (possibly its capital) on a single-square island (which of course is good defensively). There is no land for miles around. Now sea can't be polluted, and you just happen to have a nice nuclear missile and some paratroopers on an island 9 or so squares away...

 

[Ren]

And a couple of Paratroopers, or Paradropping Battleships!

Also, did you know that spys can make 'amphibious assaults'? It's quite handy to know that

 

[duke o' york]

So can dips. How do you think it's possible to bribe barbarian ships?

 

[Ren]

WEll you can bribe them off the coast...