John Lenin
Chieftain
- Joined
- Dec 21, 2004
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Been playing Civ3 for a couple of weeks now, and I think I've shrugged off all the gameplay ghosts of Civ2. One thing I have noticed is that combat is now very random - e.g., even if your unit is one with high def/att values, there are usually no guarantees that it will win any combat. This makes for a more satisfying game in many ways (more strategy involved as you decide where to over-resource your military ahead of an expected attack, etc.); but in other ways, I do kinda miss the old Civ2 certainties, where 2 Musketeers fortified behind city walls could see off almost anything, and the Battleship was (for me) far and away the deadliest military unit on the board.
So is there a unit type in Civ3 that can function to the kind of level that a Civ2 unit could? I mean one that can win 99% of the time when fighting against a weaker unit. Mobile armour looks good but in my games they are never around for much of it, and Mech Infantry can get blown away by Riflemen.
So is there a unit type in Civ3 that can function to the kind of level that a Civ2 unit could? I mean one that can win 99% of the time when fighting against a weaker unit. Mobile armour looks good but in my games they are never around for much of it, and Mech Infantry can get blown away by Riflemen.
never built more than 5... but i always play tiny maps...
A game I had not to long ago had around 65 artillery. Needless to say, combine that with tanks and I could pretty much dominate everyone. Setting some cities to good amounts of shields per turn is good for producing military units.
