The best unit

[goodbye_mr_bond]

Originally posted by stormerne:

Originally posted by Sir Isaac Newton:
My personal most hated military unit is partisans. Toward the end of my games, they invariably start popping up in barbarian droves and wreck my nice farmland and transcontinental railways, before my tanks can knock them out, and my engineers have to connect things all over again.

They're cheap to bribe though - even the AI ones coming out from a captured city that aren't from a democracy - and then you can save your tanks for better stuff.

Not only that, but when one of your cities gets taken out by barbs in raging horde, you can use you partisans to take it right back--and presto!--you also have a few extra NON defense units to play with...

 

[GenghisK]

Not only that, but when one of your cities gets taken out by barbs in raging horde, you can use you partisans to take it right back--and presto!--you also have a few extra NON defense units to play with...

I find it more useful to "leave" one (or even more) city to barbs. They'll constantly build units to span their empire, so you can buy them for a cheaper price than if you bribed another "normal" civ. That's my strategy. I give 2 of my medium size town to barbarians. Of course I surround them with fortress and defence units and as soon as somebody try to go out, my diplomats are there to buy. Eheheh!

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[Field Marshal Klesh]

Originally posted by shadowdale:
My favorite unit is clearly the Engineer but, if it's military units we are talking about...

The Engineer <u>is</u> a military unit! Just because it has no attack strength, it can still take over a city. And having a large squadron of them available to build a railroad from your infrastructure to your enemy's front doors <u>all in a single turn</u> (over most normal terrain), to allow your spies and heavy artillery in with no movement loss, makes them an offensive unit par excellence!

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I totally agree. In a PBEM game of Nemo's 2194 Days of War awhile back I (germany) was aliied with XinYu(japan). Before I know it, I have Imperial Marines greeting me at <u>both</u> Stalingrad and Leningrad!!!
He attacked along the Trans Siberian Railroad and used waves of engineers to rebuild it (when cities were placed along the tracks, and destroyed for lack of walls)
He acomplished all this while my forces were engaged in the fights for Moscow and London. I was sucessful in Operation Sealion though, because XinYu took care of pretty much the entirety of the Russian threat.



[This message has been edited by Field Marshal Klesh (edited April 14, 2001).]

 

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