Abegweit
Anarchist trader
Got any more hairs to split?
I suggested other measures too.
I suggested other measures too.
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darski
Regent in Training
Oh, no, no!!!! I am sorry it sounded like that... I was hoping that it would work
. I was really asking you to find out if I could do it. so guess that means I can't kick Liz after all... sigh.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
He said enemy ships in his post, thus infering ships belonging to civs you are at war with.
Abegweit
Anarchist trader
Ah sorry. I misunderstood. 
If you attack someone, that indeed is an act of war. So, unless you are willing to live with the consequences, don't do it.
If you attack someone, that indeed is an act of war. So, unless you are willing to live with the consequences, don't do it.
darski
Regent in Training
It depends on point of view also, because I regard all AI units as "enemy" units because they aren't mine, but I understood the nature of your post, as well. Taking a pot shot at a tresspasser will start a war, but telling them get out might not. If you tell them get out and they won't then they will be the one declaring and then you can shoot them.
..........And make your people happier at the same time! 
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Sashie VII
Balance of Power
Lord Parkin said:
Or if that's not preferable, then focusing on your navy and less on land units would work also.
darski
Regent in Training
I have a game that is starting to go in a naval direction. Kate and Liz are trying to sniff around my coastal cities. Ironclads were quite numerous in the Great Zulu destruction recenlty. I have 3 ironclads that I post at Liz's front door when she comes exploring my harbor with her MOW.
Now in CivII, I was pretty good a naval war but it doesn't come up much in III. The glory has gone when getting steel doesn't take you a major leap forward. I loved to send those nice shiny new battleships out to discover the world.
They just reeked of power.
One thing I have learned to look for is that one little spot of land that is not yet in your cultural borders, you know the AI knows where it is. I like to post some left over warriors on those spots as placeholders.
Now in CivII, I was pretty good a naval war but it doesn't come up much in III. The glory has gone when getting steel doesn't take you a major leap forward. I loved to send those nice shiny new battleships out to discover the world.
They just reeked of power.One thing I have learned to look for is that one little spot of land that is not yet in your cultural borders, you know the AI knows where it is. I like to post some left over warriors on those spots as placeholders.
Sashie VII
Balance of Power
Well, IMO ironclads could be useful, but then it's an optional tech. If you're doing your own researching, then why not go straight to combustion? Gets you cruisers and destroyers (IIRC), which is what ironclads upgrade to anyway.
Sashie VII
Balance of Power
Oh, and I'm a navy enthusiast 
Bartleby
Remembers laughter
You can always "cheat" and just place a unit in every single tile next to a coast, so that they can't land anything except Marines (or Beserkers, if they're the Vikings).
Note that if you use zero defence units (viz Workers or Artillery) as a coastal blockade, these can be captured "amphibiously" by non-amphibious units, just that the AI never does it.
The best idea is to use a honeypot city. Undefended. Preferably close (3 tiles) to a city with barracks.Fiz said:
The AI will land close to the honeypot (don't have unguarded defenive terrain like hills, mountain). You kill the invaders and heal the troops in the barracks city. Works like a charm most of the time.
Mirc
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^ Isn't that considered an exploit? Don't know, just asking.
Don't know, just asking.
azzaman333
meh
^ Isn't that considered an exploit?
I wouldn't call it an exploit as such, although it would be close.
Well, you are exploiting the way the AI 'cheats', as it knows unit locations regardless of spy status. Although I wouldn't call it an exploit, as all you're doing is taking advantage of an AI advantage to begin with.
Mirc
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Edit: Crosspost....
Wow, weird, I was sure I saw this thread as unread, but my post was the last one it it...
OK, thanks. I thought it was banned by GotM and such, but I guess I was wrong.
Wow, weird, I was sure I saw this thread as unread, but my post was the last one it it...
OK, thanks. I thought it was banned by GotM and such, but I guess I was wrong.
I don't GOTM, so I don't know. You'll have to ask one of the GOTM staff.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Well, I don't plan on playing GotM soon, but I was just asking.
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