Ok, ok, I see your point. I didn't mean to offend. It is just confusing as to what the stats are before I build a unit. I mean the city police has the same information as the basic infantry, along with cost, but clearly in the build queue it takes the right amount of time to build assuming it is 200 shields? I went to check on the Japanese planes to see what they were throwing at me, and they seem to have the right stats but they all list the text for the zero, which was odd.
My infantry have no offensive potential,this is true; I was just a bit upset that your generic infantry unit built by Persia/Thailand made mine look horrible: 6-8-1 vs. 2-7-1?? That's really pitiful! Basically if the Japanese can reach a square, they own it. At least, until I can get some artillery built.
I looked at the Japanese planes and what I can build,I don't think I am even going to bother; the Zeros would SHRED me!
Would like to ask about terrain defense values. If I remember right, you borrowed a map from Teturkhan to start with right? Did that include the defense values? Since I see you have the same super inflated defense values for rough terrain that he uses. I only ask since I wonder if that is what you really wanted to use... 110% for forest and hills, 170% for jungle and 210% for Mtns. is really steep. My army has been digging into those forests and massing in the cites and letting Japan beat themselves to death against us. It works great, despite the massive air raids. I was just wondering if you really wanted defense values that high for rough. Also, the rivers are set to 0% bonus for defense?! From all the reading I have done on WW2 era fighting river crossings were daunting, I was expecting in the 25%-50% range for being behind a river, do you really think 0% is appropriate? Especially given the high values for other terrain. I was looking at that river line to the NE of Chungking wishing it was worth something is all...the Japanese army is on parade through my grasslands. Since they can't pillage anything we are just considering them to be 'tourists'.
I see I have the tech for anti aircraft emplacements, but they don't show up in the build queue, is this just a china thing,or maybe a bug?
Something odd with the luxuries: In my cities it lists me as having 1 dye and 2 incense;on the map I have 2 dye and one incense. The city screen also say I have gems and Ivory when in fact I have fur and silk. It works properly so far as trades, etc so no worries. It's just freaky!
My gold luxury does not have an icon on the city screen but I don't think that matters unless you get two "new" ones with no picture;figuring out which one you lost when a trade deal expires will be iffy. Btw, hiding that second rubber resource UNDER Chungking was Evil I tell you!!
Some advice for China players; buy flak! At this point(only 3 turns in) I laugh at the Japanese army; it's those 20+ bomb raids that are killing me. At least the buildings are easy to replace.... Actually with 10 or so Inf in each city they don't seem to do all that much damage. If their army ever shows up at the same time I may have a bigger problem!
Notes for Rocoteh: Turn 1 the NW city of Spain's on the french border got razed; turn TWO they declared war on France!! Now that was a neat trick... I got sucked into declaring war by MPP of course, wheeee!
Also France declares war on Turks and??(I forgot) Turn 2 UK declares war on Thai. Dutch/Netherlands declares war on US. Turn 3 Poland dies,US declares war on Chile. Poland did OK I guess... I feel mighty safe as China actually. If the terrain was set to Civ 3 standard I would be nowhere near that cocky. Not that I am suggesting that!
Edit: I have a day or two left on my vacation:If you want me to try and do a little something with the pedia I would not mind looking at it;I won't do that though unless you give me a green light.
Edit2: Volksturmm88- I am running a Pentium 4, 1.60 GHZ with 512 ram. I have a 64 and a 32 dedicated video ram with that as well. It is old, but it was state of the art when I got it a few years back to play Everquest with.
Don't want to make you mad but it looked like China's units were loaded with bugs. After I re-install this I will report any that remain. I think a lot of them were due to the pedia not getting updated from 1.0 to 1.1? They seem to be very different and a lot of the links don't work properly when you right click on them in the build queue or in the regular pedia section. This affected both units and luxury goods. I will get back to you soonest though.
. if you like i can tell you what has worked for me
Almost done now with building basic infrastructure. However germans declared war to soviets and now i had to reposition my troops north for defense. Advance on the chinese front is stopped now, they even started building marines and bombers and are trying to take their cities back. 
