Bombard?

[Destroyer]

Where is the bombard option on my artillery?

In fact cannons, machine guns and artillery are all a complete waste of space. Okay you need one or two to knock down a cities defence. But in the filed they are next to useless, and not worth the points to build.


I much prefer the civ 3 model.

[Grumbold]

Bombard only appears when you are adjacent to a city that is providing a positive defense modifier and looks like a red and white target circle.

If you rush to artillery they can wipe out a rifleman equipped civ on their own. If you're ahead of the tech race by gunpowder, of course you don't need to be so careful to build a balanced force.

Personally I think the problem is that cannon are too slow to arrive in the gunpowder era since its only a couple more techs from them to artillery.

[Destroyer]

But by the time you get artillery, Marines should also be available, and are probably the mainstay of your army anyway.

[TheHateMale]

Aren't machine guns defensive units rather than bombarding units? They shouldn't be able to knock *anything* over.

Bombarding units are mainly stacked unit killers. They may lose and be destroyed, but they'll knock about a third of the health off of 6-8 units on the same space, forcing the other player to either fortify or push on with weakened units.

[Last Conformist]

Machineguns can't initiate attacks at all in this game. Think WWI machinegun nests.

[RGBVideo]

Aren't machine guns defensive units rather than bombarding units? They shouldn't be able to knock *anything* over.

You're correct -- in fact, in my latest MP game, I lost two MG nests to a cavalry rush of 3. Thank god I was smart enough to build backup units on reserve

I much prefer the civ 3 model.

CtP