Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[thetrooper]

Be sure to give them some gold too.

 

[Aceman101]

Yeah 100 will do. I'll make it with all zeros in the end to make it simple to calculate how much percent of the gold was 'liberated' per city.

 

[Aceman101]

Ok, Done the map. Starting up the game now...

 

[Aceman101]

Ok, here it is. I gave each civ 10 towns, cities or metro's. I gave Egypt Towns, Greece Cities and Babylon Metro's.

First I razed Egypt's town, I got 5 gold (I gave all civs 100)

I Razed Greece's City, I got 7 gold. That's a 2 gold difference. Remember I did count through the towns,cities, metro's thoroughly and I gave all civs 10.

Next, Bab's Metro, 10 gold. 3 gold increase...

I didn't need to raze any more, as I already know that it will just add up to 100 gold anyway...

This was not a thorough test, but a basic understanding of how much gold you gain by conquering larger cities.

 

[thetrooper]

So, in this case size does indeed matter...

Very kind of you to run the test.

 

[Aceman101]

That's alright, It only took an hour. I had some problems at the start which needed to be fixed.

Yes, size matters. And if the AI had more than 100 gold in their treasury then that 10 gold you get from razing/capturing a metro will be increased.

 

[btfx]

Does anyone use helicopters? They were so awesome in civ2, though very unrealistic.

Speaking of aircraft, is there any way to relocate a stack? Like X and Ctrl+X but for planes.

Has anyone found a clear advantage for building bombers or tanks? Is combined arms better than either one on its own?

 

[Turner]

Does anyone use helicopters? They were so awesome in civ2, though very unrealistic.

Yeah, I use them. Useful for getting defenders to a recently aquired city quick. Especially if it's on another continent. I also modded them to take tracked vehicles as well.

Speaking of aircraft, is there any way to relocate a stack? Like X and Ctrl+X but for planes.

You can do this for planes as well.

Has anyone found a clear advantage for building bombers or tanks? Is combined arms better than either one on its own?

Bombers are very powerful. Just as powerful as arty, and longer range to boot.

Tanks and Modern Armor are the best offensive units in the game. So yeah, they're good.

A common tactic is to use arty/bombers to redline the defensive units, and then mop up with whatever your best offensive unit is.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What are the volcanoes they were talking about in the other thread? Why don't I ever see any?

 

[Turner]

It's a new terrain type in Conquests. Don't you just have vanilla? You wont' see it in vanilla.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Ah. thanks

 

[metamike]

a) In Regent-Monarch, which scientific route does the AI research last?

b) If you have an archer in your town, who has his 1 movement point left, and a red-line horseman outside of town ON a road, and you kill the horseman with the archer, will the archer get 1 more movement point to flee back into the city because the Horseman was on a road?

 

[ecuwins]

a) I'm not exactly sure.

b) Yes, the archer can move back into town.

 

[psweetman1590]

A) Don't know

B) No, attacks take one whole movement point.

Edit: X post with ecuwins... and btw, sir, I'm certain you are mistaken

 

[ecuwins]

^^Ooops, Psweetman is right, sorry for the bum info.

 

[Turner]

It's hard to tell what the AI is going to research. I've seen them take different paths in different games.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

You might want to check out this list of favorite techs for the AI (and unfavorites).

 

[Keroro]

Something that has been bugging me for a while - in vanilla I'm sure that the rebase air mission shortcut was ^R, but it doesn't seem to work anymore for Conquests. Has the shortcut changed?

 

[thetrooper]

Shift + R.

 

[Keroro]

That's wierd, I've been trying shift R, R and ctrl R and it just doesn't seem to work. Is there any way that a scenario or mod can screw up the shortcuts.