Things I learned about the science of warfare through Civilization IV

[Jerrymander]

454. (can't believe no ones said this, it was on the history channel Sunday)
The building in the background of Julius Ceaser's leaderhead was not built until over a hundred years after his assassination.

Because it (1) has nothing to do with warfare and (2) would only be caught by a nerd.

 

[CCRunner]

Because it (1) has nothing to do with warfare and (2) would only be caught by a nerd.

It's kinda hypocritical to call someone a nerd on a game website... Nerd!
Plus not all of the ones so far have had to do with warfare.

Now I want to go play civ 4 to see his leaderhead.

 

[Harry Potter52]

Forget the leaderhead, Julius Caesar was never assasinated in Civ

 

[Harry Potter52]

456) Stalin will easily chummy up with Roosevelt, forget the Cold War.
457) In terra maps, USA rarely starts in the Americas. Those are generally given over ot the barbs.

 

[DroopyTofu]

I know people that are much bigger nerds than me that don't play Civ. At least I play several sports

 

[Harry Potter52]

Forget the nerds, those who don't play this haven't lived, but actually by that estimate, three quarters the world's population is walking dead. ZOMBIES anyone?

 

[Tibur753]

458. (not warfare related) Citizens do not car how much money you invest in culture, only the percent of your budget that you spend on it. They are happier if a civilization that makes 10 spends 10 on it then if a civilization that makes 100,000,000 spends nine million times that amount.

 

[Krowser]

459. If trained in the "magical secrets of the forest (or hills)" a foot soldier will actually travel faster through a forest than open grounds. Most likely because he/she learned how to swing from tree to tree. Or they are using skateboards to go down the hills.

460. Long before the invention of the Radio, ships out to sea always maintained a telepathic link with the leader of their civ to receive any and every new orders.

461. When war is declared any citizen currently visiting the enemy country will be instantly ejected to the nearest border, no matter the distance. (One time, I actually used this to move my guys faster)

462. Even before the discovery of any metal, people already knew how to forge mining picks and dig mines hundreds of meters deep.

463. Every city in the world has its own university, factory and airport.

464. An elephant can withstand a direct shell hit from a tank. (EEeewwwww!!!)

465. The standard Cuirassier kit includes: 1 rifle, 1 horse, 1 bag of gunpowder, 1 iPod.

 

[Harry Potter52]

466) (not warfare related) Picasso died after painting Les .... whatever it was
467) Napoleon says he has not time for such nonsense when you talk to him about steampower, but he will research it quite readily

 

[da dick]

468) nukes and bomber planes don't destroy cities, half-naked people carrying sticks do.

 

[MattX]

469) If all else fails it is sometimes still worth sending a man with a very long spear to poke an apache gunship.

 

[stee]

469) If all else fails it is sometimes still worth sending a man with a very long spear to poke an apache gunship.

or a tank

 

[Harry Potter52]

470) You think that 4 people can make 1 city
471) and that 3 soldiers make one division of the army

 

[jahsoldier]

472) Arabians have a special magic which allows them to transmute horses into camels if necessary.

 

[jahsoldier]

oh, and -

473) It's entirely possible that Christianity was founded several hundred years before the birth of Christ.

474) People get angry if you don't build a massive circular killing field in their city, but don't mind if you starve thousands of them to death.

 

[Harry Potter52]

475) It is possible for you to give people universal suffrage and yet be able to whip them

 

[Shackel]

476) Longbowmen can beat riflemen, this is because they are so accurate, they can shoot an arrow right into the rifleman's barrel, stopping them from shooting.

 

[da dick]

477) german panzer tanks only look more scary and powerful when you fight them with another tank.

478) all naval units follow an international sacred code of honour which prevents them from attacking anything other than another naval unit.

 

[Harry Potter52]

479) When cannons attack elephants, the first shot always misses, showing that those manning the cannons are myopic

 

[stee]

468) nukes and bomber planes don't destroy cities, half-naked people carrying sticks do.

thats true.