Things I learned about the science of warfare through Civilization IV

[NoPeace]

In Civ IV, if you settle a Great Person inside a city as a Great Specialist, he or she is rendered immortal. (unless the city is razed)

 

[CivIVMonger]

In Civ IV, if you settle a Great Person inside a city as a Great Specialist, he or she is rendered immortal. (unless the city is razed)

There is no educational system in civ. Each person get's his choice of... Wait, he doesn't get a choice.

 

[thpe94ad]

Killing Cavalry never leaves a single horse, but the horse is never killed first, leaving the Cavalry as wounded rifelmen either.

 

[Bushface]

Not actually warfare, but the back of a sawblade cuts better than the toothed edge. Zoom in to a lumbermill to see this in action.

 

[thpe94ad]

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419. Islam is usually unnecessary to invent.

What's wrong with the spiral minaret, now? Also, usually it's my 2nd, sometimes first(!) own religion to be founded.

 

[jacklours]

All battles are based on a percentage from 0 to 99.9 >_<

Doesn't make sense it has to be between 0.01 and 99.99
OR 0 and 100

 

[CivIVMonger]

People hybornate for the 40 year duration that something happens in the game.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

1. Genghis and Kublai Khan are Communists.
2. Caravels have magical force fields around them that repel every human being around them except for Scouts, Explorers, Spies, Missionaries and Great People.

 

[ICNP]

Groups of People can only fight one on one in aristocratic duels. Because 5000 spearmen can not attack a tank as one mass. That is why zombies always lose.

The Mace is superior to the sword. Unless that sword is wielded by an Italian, in which case the Mace is superior when attacking guys who have melee weapons.

 

[NoPeace]

If I load up a fridge on my galley, then it will also serve as an alternate source of power to increase my sailing speed.

 

[dennisg]

#17:

#18: It only costs a few hundred dollars to make an elephant become a helicopter.

 

[NoPeace]

In Civ IV, if you look closely enough, the monorail in the public transportation only stops at one station.

 

[CivIVMonger]

^^ Well that's the graphics not the interface.

 

[NoPeace]

In CIv IV, if you do a recon on an enemy city, they don't shoot you down, but if you start bombing them, they'll try to.

 

[CivIVMonger]

This thread manages to keep some way of not going dead.

A wise man from one of your cities is able to tell you what religion is founded from across a continent. And yet, you cannot even see it.

 

[Ataxerxes]

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet:

Modern cities feel protected by a loinclothed warrior wielding a club. They demand military protection if the only unit protecting the city is a gunship. This is because gunships were constructed without doors so once the horseman was placed in it, he could never leave to patrol the streets.

(It always struck me as weird that a 2 strength warrior makes citizens feel safe, but a 20 strength gunship does not.)

 

[CivIVMonger]

Somehow, the ancient greek civilization discovered Philosophy in the mid 600 BC's...

 

[hewhoknowsall]

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet:

Modern cities feel protected by a loinclothed warrior wielding a club. They demand military protection if the only unit protecting the city is a gunship. This is because gunships were constructed without doors so once the horseman was placed in it, he could never leave to patrol the streets.

(It always struck me as weird that a 2 strength warrior makes citizens feel safe, but a 20 strength gunship does not.)

I believe that it has been said before in this thread, but yeah, you're right, it doesn't make much sense.

Just like how (and this has been said before, lol many of us think of the same things which shows how funny and standing out they are) an enemy warrior could raze a modern metropolis if it doesn't have any military units, because apparently a man with a club can defeat the police force, swat teams, civilians who could just arm themselves with knives/stuff more advanced than clubs (or, in the case of Americans and whatever other civilizations that allow civilians to own firearms, GUNS) or drive over the warrior in a car or truck, firefighters (whose axes would outmatch wooden clubs) and this warrior could somehow raze the city, destroying its skyscrapers and even the Pentagon.

 

[CivIVMonger]

Yeah, those old splintery wooden clubs could TOTALLY smash through all of that bullet-proof glass, concrete, steel, and get past all of those angry baseball players. (Pun intended.)

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Korean universities are the most prestigious.