Armies DO Have Combat Bonus!

[Kuciwalker]

I'm not sure if it would take a 0 in the "number of cities needed per army" setting. In this case, there could be unlimited armies, hypothetically.

I'd say it'se even odds whether it works or it crashes the game with division by zero.

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by skywalker

I'm not sure if it would take a 0 in the "number of cities needed per army" setting. In this case, there could be unlimited armies, hypothetically.

I'd say it'se even odds whether it works or it crashes the game with division by zero.

The minimum should be 1. Armies are just too powerful to be unlimited. It would not be unreasonable though to have 1 army per city.

On the debate between the builder and the warmonger:

I think that C3C restores the balance between Warmonger and Builder. Before the scale was too heavily tainted towards the warmonger.

[Theseus]

I was screwing around with my second epic game, playing the Maya as inspired by that thread.

Well, first of all, who ever said the Maya are for builders?

But second, MAN, I am I psyched about Armies. In the screenshot below, I've got four Musket+2xMedInf Armies. One at in the bottleneck to the NW, and three are at the bottleneck to the NE. The plan had been to leave one at each bottleneck, and for the other two to have been the vanguard of my Aztec Punitive Expedition. There was a whole bunch of other units in the prep city as well: Muskets, MedInfs, Longbows, and Trebuchets.

Lo and behold, here come the Aztec Knights!!

Yeah? You talking to me and my Armies??

Ah pity da fool!

They attack, losing 15, redlining 3, and with one at 3hp (killed a Musket).

And with Barracks, all three Armies were fully healed for my turn.

Yeaaahhhh, baby.

[Theseus]

OH!!

AND, it just occurred to me, that in the absence of horses (damn this new resource distribution), my 2 move blitzing Armies are a godsend in taking down fastmovers!!

[Catt]

Originally posted by Theseus
They attack, losing 15, redlining 3, and with one at 3hp (killed a Musket).

And with Barracks, all three Armies were fully healed for my turn.

Oh My!

Catt

[vmxa1]

I guess that kills the idea that the AI will not attack armies.

[Inverse Icarus]

the AI should have reloaded that turn and tried with different RNG :P

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Theseus
They attack, losing 15, redlining 3, and with one at 3hp (killed a Musket).

And with Barracks, all three Armies were fully healed for my turn.

Yeaaahhhh, baby.

[Theseus]

Yeah, I am still just mucking about with C3C epic games to get a feel for things... won't play one for real until a patch.

But I was pleasantly surprised at:

* The quality of the Aztec attack.

* That they went after an Army-laden city (although that wasn't too smart... one step forward, one step back, eh?).

* The performance of the Armies. Towards the end, they were each at 3-6hp, and thus on defense they did revert to the MedInf... now at, hmm, ~6.1 defense, after the Muskets having taken some hps. Then, to see them spring back to full health!! (That's too much, btw, and should be addressed in a patch)

Pretty friggin' awesome.

[vmxa1]

I have been waiting to see how you would like the heal me quick funcion for armies now. It is brutally strong.

[Kuciwalker]

If my math is right, a 4 mech infantry army with the Mil. Academy bonus fortified on a mountian inside a fortress and a barricade behind a river would have a defense of...





































202.5

[Dominae]

You forgot Radar Towers...

[MrWhereItsAt]

But would the AI attack such an Army?

[bongo]

With nukes?

In PTW the AI would not attack if the odds of winning were below 5%

[mimi]

Originally posted by bongo
With nukes?

In PTW the AI would not attack if the odds of winning were below 5%

I hate nukes. For the first time, out of the blue mind you, Babylon sent 3 ICBMs ... and, since I have animations turned off 'cause I'm sick of watching 45 units attack per turn, I didn't even know what had happened until I looked for my units and saw a huge orange landmass. Rude Babys!