The Great Wall Goes Obsolete...

[Peacemongerer]

...when the OWNER researches dynamite? Seems weird that an invading army with high explosives would be slowed by something like that... it barely even kept the Mongols out at times.

I was attacking the Inca (Who suddenly decides they wanted to be warmongers and conquer half the map) after they were dumb enough to DoW me while I was an era and a half ahead of them in tech and they were already at war. The Great Wall was troubling and I didn't yet have Dynamite, so I waited and had to watch them eliminate Denmark and conquer half of Arabia while I built-up an army, constructed Brandenburg Gate and waited dilligently for Dynamite. When that came, I thought I could upgrade my artillery, march my units through and make mayhem. Then I notice moving one tile through their territory takes up all my movement points.

Is this new in G&K or was it this way in vanilla too? If it's intended to be that way, it sucks.

 

[Pax_Romanus]

Same in vanilla, bunch of threads on this. And yes, it sucks.

 

[Peacemongerer]

It's gotten even worse with how much they buffed city strength... I'm getting guys a full era ahead of him dropped to like 6 HP before I can get in a melee attack. If they keep the city strength this strong, they gotta do something about Great Wall bc it makes you way too impossible to attack, numbers be damned.

 

[ptoss1]

Wow... Incans got Wall too in my game, really depressing.

 

[Peacemongerer]

Well after I took their first city by brute force (Heavy casualties and multiple retreats included), it got a little easier bc their next city hadn't expanded 3 full tiles out yet. I just post a cavalry unit outside their borders, 2 artillery 3 hexes away and keep having the cavalry move a tile forward, open fire, then pull back. After about 4 turns this should work.

 

[TedToaster22]

In those cases I would highly recommend heavy focus on air power.