Things I learned about the science of warfare through Civilization IV

[raxid]

A modern day helicopter cannot fly farther than the length of 3 cities in an entire year.
It takes a modern infantry regiment a year to cross a single city's length.
Riflemen have a bonus against mounted units presumably due to their rifles, yet modern infantry do not.
Archers due to their ranged attacks get the chance to attack their enemies before the enemies get close, yet when they first received guns they decided that this was dishonorable.
Battle fronts do not exist. Instead, modern day armies move around in clumps like stacks that bring doom.
A stealth bomber cannot destroy a wooden boat.
Civilians require food and may starve, but when drafted or volunteer for the army they no longer require food or water, aren't bothered by the weather and live forever.
A bunch of guys with wooden clubs can enter New York City and raze it to the ground, effortlessly defeating the police, civilians (many armed with guns or at least knives), bodyguards, civilians in trucks/cars/other big vehicles, and burn concrete/steel reinforced skyscrapers many of which are designed to withstand earthquakes to the ground.

uhh... that's because a longbow fires accurately up to four times as far as a musket.

 

[EsaKo]

uhh... that's because a longbow fires accurately up to four times as far as a musket.

And faster, too. Crossbows fired slower, but they had a very good range and were very accurate even with little training. AP should have the resolution "Crossbow non-proliferation treaty" as this happened in real life as well

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Archers can shoot over entire cities too hit the poor saps on the other side. (oh wait that's civ V)

 

[Otaku-sama]

By having your soldiers able to get into formation in their sleep lets them hit the enemy up to 6 times before the enemy can even move. This is the result of the hard working time mages freezing time around their enemies, letting the projectiles get right to the threshold of the time distruption as a reward for being disciplined.

Nukes cannot destroy cities. This is because every city has a population of people who are immune to the radioactivity of the blast and can continue to get back to work the day after a nuclear strike, even in the fallout. (They are immune.)

Stealth ships (Stealth destroyers and subs) cannot defend defenceless transports because their stealth systems are so great that they can be completely invisible to every detection system known to man. However, the captains of the ships become very lazy as a result and will not attack enemy ships that pass by.

The Cho-Ko-Nu is able to hurt stacks of troops because the time mages once again reward them, this time for their awesome crossbow design and freeze time around the whole army, allowing the soldiers to walk through the army, placing arrows directly above the enemy.

 

[Terrance888]

In CivV units avoid each other: supposidly to avoid Veneral Disease. (AKA ancient and less deadly HIV)

 

[NoPeace]

How are we going to use naval transports in Civ V if every tile can only hold one unit?

 

[Jerrymander]

How are we going to use naval transports in Civ V if every tile can only hold one unit?

Very slowly.

 

[BCLG100]

And faster, too. Crossbows fired slower, but they had a very good range and were very accurate even with little training. AP should have the resolution "Crossbow non-proliferation treaty" as this happened in real life as well

Their range was not too good at all, they were lucky if they even got half the length of a Longbow. The training issue was the main selling point though, in the same way that cannon fodder became the order of the day with rifles- they took very little time to learn.

 

[cardgame]

well, lower range then longbows, yeah, but they packed more punch for taking out armored enemies and still had a longer range than shortbows, IIRC.

 

[fenrus]

You cannot use Archers or Catapults to attack ships, even though the opening movie in Civ 4 does so.

 

[CivIVMonger]

^^ Haha, I like it...

"It is very common for 80% or more of a developed nation's funding go directly to science."

 

[Smellincoffee]

How are we going to use naval transports in Civ V if every tile can only hold one unit?

From the Confirmed Features post in CivV:

There are no longer Troop Transports instead, units instantly transform into makeshift floating transports (PC PowerPlay) [

 

[NoPeace]

How will aircraft be kept in cities now if only one unit can occupy each city in Civ V?

 

[cardgame]

that's actually a good question, but I would like to make a public service announcement.

This is a civ 4 thread. Kindly discuss Civilization V in the Civ5 forum

ontopic: Sometimes, nations will declare war on their only friend in the world for some money.

 

[NoPeace]

In Civ IV, even if global warming occurs, the polar ice caps don't shrink.

 

[EsaKo]

Their range was not too good at all, they were lucky if they even got half the length of a Longbow. The training issue was the main selling point though, in the same way that cannon fodder became the order of the day with rifles- they took very little time to learn.

Their penetration power was also notable, they were much better at penetrating armored knights. Actually that's why the Pope tried to ban them.

 

[NoPeace]

Horses don't die if they travel exposed through icy terrain.

 

[GreatLordofPie]

(sorry, don't know the number) Only 18 nations have ever existed at any given time

The leader of the nation is a single, person who is immortal, and remains the leader forever, even under a democracy

 

[wabatt]

You cannot use Archers or Catapults to attack ships, even though the opening movie in Civ 4 does so.

tell that to ... I remember bombarding a barbarian galley with a catapult

 

[nadeem]

it costs more to upgrade an elephant to a helicopter than it does to upgrade a swordsman on a horse to a helicopter