"Precision Strikes"

[Mr Black]

Hi!

Reading the reviews, they mentioned that stealth, p.s. units will be able to pick out units to bombard, out of a list. Well I think that this ability should also work when you are bombarding cities.

Pres. Strik. should give you a list of targets in a city to bomb. Right now it's all random, which isn't exactly a Prec. Strike.

Anyway, I hope it's not too late.

 

[Roland Johansen]

I agree with this statement.

Normal bombers should be able to pick a target (building/pop/unit) in a city and with 50% chance they hit this target, with 25% chance one of the other targets.

Precision strike bombers should be able to pick a target (a specific unit/ a specific building/ population) and with 90% chance hit this target and with 5 % chance hit one of the other targets.

This way you can bomb a city with modern weapons and really hit the things you want to (most of the time).

 

[Frank Grimes]

Yes yes yes...precision strikes should be just that...precise. If I want to destroy a city's barracks, well then by god I should be able to destroy its barracks. Another thought....how about destroying Wonders? I know it might be seem a little unbalanced, but it would add a new twist to game strat. Think about it. "Should I destroy Sun Tzu's Art of War, hurting both their economy and their ability to make war, or let them keep it in the hope that I might capture it for my own upon invasion?" Of course, destroying a wonder would drastically effect your reputation.

This idea has probably been mentioned before, I just thought I'd get it out.

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

On a slightly related topic: It's been a while since I've played Civ3 (as my computer is on the FRITZ ) so, if this already happens, let me know!! If you bomb a city, and kill a lot of civilians then, if you capture that city, surely the people should hate you even MORE than normal-even if you're liberating them? Also, killing civilians from an enemy civ should also increase your own war weariness (but increase their's as well)-depending on Govt. type, of course!! Just a couple of thoughts!

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

 

[Frank Grimes]

Civilians do give some trouble if you kill too many of them. In a recent game, I'd just finished up the Celts. During my righteous campaign to rid those filthy Celts from the earth, I used a couple stacks of artillery to knock a metropolis or two down to the size of a town. After the capture of each city, I starved the pop down to 1 (like I said, I was trying to get rid the Celts completely). Even with only one Celtic citizen left in those cities that were once size 13 or 14, I kept getting disorders in said cities, with the unhappy citizens stating that they remember "the atrocities" that were done unto them, namely my massive bombardment.

 

[Clown2TheLeft]

Not for nothing, but if you had a Celt city, pop 14, it's logical to asume your larger citites are 18-20 after the war. What would be the harm in repopulating those captured cities with settlers from your larger ones? This late in the game you can make them in 1 turn, and the population would be 1 angry Celt to several of your own citizens, thereby making your chances of disorder significantly less.

This is what I do, as I generally starve the caputured population down to size one also, but I do it to keep them from cutlure-flipping and to reduce the size of the necessary garrison.

Later!

--The Clown to the Left

 

[serpentx777]

I like the idea of percision strike and i think you should be able to target certain units within a city too.

 

[Ian Beale]

Someone mentioned targeting Sun Tzu's Art of War- you can't destroy these wonders! Like the other ideas though- precision strikes seem abit random at the moment. I'd like it if your own civs became unhappy with too many civilian casualties?

 

[Tacit_Exit]

Destroying wonders, in many cases, would be ridiculous.

You may be able to reduce the Pyramids to rubble, or burn down the Great Library, but even a planet buster can't destroy a scientific or intellectual theory (ToE, Uni. Suff.).

Propaganda, on the other hand . . .

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by Tacit_Exit
Destroying wonders, in many cases, would be ridiculous.

You may be able to reduce the Pyramids to rubble, or burn down the Great Library, but even a planet buster can't destroy a scientific or intellectual theory (ToE, Uni. Suff.).

Propaganda, on the other hand . . .

But then again, how can you spend tangible production resources to a theory?

 

[Ian Beale]

ooh controversial

 

[Tacit_Exit]

Originally posted by sealman
But then again, how can you spend tangible production resources to a theory?

Those blue shields you mean?

The same ones that are used to 'build' (train) military units, workers and settlers?

I have absolutely no idea!