Quick Answers

[HellboundHeathcliff]

If a tile is in your city radius that gets the commerce bonus from the river, it counts for building the Hoover Dam or a nuke plant.

Build up your worker force ahead of time by building them in cities that have hit size 12 or even 6 if it doesn't have an aqueduct. Many of these cities will recover in one turn.

 

[TruePurple]

Is armies made without leaders (via military acadamy) any weaker then armies made with leaders?

 

[Padma]

Armies are Armies.

 

[TruePurple]

Is there a way to get civ 3 to skip the opening scene? Besides making for a quicker start it would mean two less resolution switches each start.

 

[EMan]

@Darzee: A Worker Factory is good for producing workers. With a city of less than 7 Pop + Granary + 5 Surplus Food + 5 Shields = 1 Worker every 2 turns!

@heppcatt: In your screenshot, it looked like you were pointing to a Desert square.........CAN'T plant a Forest in the desert!

 

[Turner]

Add the line

PlayIntro=0

into the .ini file of the game you're playing in the same directory of the game. (i.e. - conquests.ini in the conquests subfolder)

You can also add

KeepRes=1

to the .ini, and that will keep the monitor res you're using, as long as it's above 1024x768.

 

[TruePurple]

Keep monitor res, in game? Or just opening credit?

 

[namliaM]

No, you don't. Tiles are 'cleared' when you settle upon them (ie; jungle + forest -> marsh), so no need to plant a forest (which you can do with the technology Engineering in the middle ages). It is a good city location, though.

IIRC you cannot settle on March in C3C.. thus it will not be cleared

 

[TruePurple]

Ok, I have a military acadamy now how do I make a leaderless army? Do I need to put a unit in the city with military acadamy? Does it need to be a elite unit to become a army?

 

[Bartleby]

An Army should be on the build list for the MilAcad city. I assume you also have to have enough cities to support an extra army for it to show up.

edit: the army is quite expensive to build...400 shields IIRC
edit 2: you can also cash-rush armies if you are rich enough

 

[fe3333au]

I think there may be a limit on the number of Armies you can have ... anyone confirm or deny

 

[thetrooper]

You need 4 cities for every army.

 

[fe3333au]

Thanks Trooper ... very quick

 

[Turner]

Well, it is the Quick Answers thread....

Also, it should be noted that you need at least four cities before you get your first army. So it's not 0-4=1 army, 5-8=2, but 0-4=0 armies, 5-8=1....

 

[Dianthus]

Well, it is the Quick Answers thread....

Also, it should be noted that you need at least four cities before you get your first army. So it's not 0-4=1 army, 5-8=2, but 0-4=0 armies, 5-8=1....

Is it 4 for all map sizes? I was playing a tiny Sid game a few days ago and was able to build an army with just 2 cities.

 

[thetrooper]

Well - it isn't called quick answers for nuthing

Let me ask for summat:

Tell me where to look for a sheet of all keyboard functions (e.g. clear map) for civ3, preferably for conquests.

And don't tell me how to clear map (I know that), it was just an example.

 

[Turner]

It is my understanding that it's at least four cities for the first army, and not dependant on map size. I could be wrong, tho.

I recall that a poster here recently couldn't build an army with his leader, and it was because he only had three cities.

It is, however, moddable in the General Settings tab, I believe it is. So if you're playing a mod you could conceivably have more than 1:4.

Trooper - I have links for that in my sig. Check out Lonewolf's .pdf files for VC3, PTW & C3C.

 

[Frollo]

Here you can download the PDF files that Turner mentioned: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3reference.shtml#general

 

[Dianthus]

It is my understanding that it's at least four cities for the first army, and not dependant on map size. I could be wrong, tho.

I recall that a poster here recently couldn't build an army with his leader, and it was because he only had three cities.

It is, however, moddable in the General Settings tab, I believe it is. So if you're playing a mod you could conceivably have more than 1:4.

I was playing an Epic game, potentially for the HOF. However, my memory wasn't working too well. I just checked and I was right that I had only settled 2 cities, but I had also captured 2, so had 4 .

 

[Turner]

Or you could click on the links in my sig and be taked directly to the download.....