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The bubble chamber
This technique is widely known, but not widely used IME.
You can actually move wherever you want in one turnwithin enemy territory by this method (as long as you don't have to rail too many tiles). You just need lots of settlers.
The technique is as follows.
Settle a town.
Rail the next tile in the direction of travel if needed.
Move a settler onto the new tile
Disband old town
Found new town
Rinse and repeat.
If you have more time you can join a worker to the old town and disband 30 shields into it. This way you can convert the old town into a settler. Doing this means that you cannot travel an infinite distance in one turn however.
The main use is to push back enemy cultural borders to get your units (usually including arty) within range of the target, and to cut off a resource by poaching. However I have used it once to destroy a space ship. IIRC it took around 15 settlers. I was able to move an arty stack and a dozen or so tanks to the offending capital in a couple of turns.
It is an exploit however, and is on the RBCiv list.
EDIT: Unrelated to the original post... when I used this technique I used tanks and Infantry even though MA and MI were available. When I got to where I was going I rushed a rax in the final town and was able to upgrade the stack on the following turn with instant healing. I also generated 3 leaders (I think) in the attack and so headed home with 2MI armies and an MA army, all fully healed. The AI were not interested in attacking this stack. I was able to win by 20K within 10 turns of this.
This technique is widely known, but not widely used IME.
You can actually move wherever you want in one turnwithin enemy territory by this method (as long as you don't have to rail too many tiles). You just need lots of settlers.
The technique is as follows.
Settle a town.
Rail the next tile in the direction of travel if needed.
Move a settler onto the new tile
Disband old town
Found new town
Rinse and repeat.
If you have more time you can join a worker to the old town and disband 30 shields into it. This way you can convert the old town into a settler. Doing this means that you cannot travel an infinite distance in one turn however.
The main use is to push back enemy cultural borders to get your units (usually including arty) within range of the target, and to cut off a resource by poaching. However I have used it once to destroy a space ship. IIRC it took around 15 settlers. I was able to move an arty stack and a dozen or so tanks to the offending capital in a couple of turns.
It is an exploit however, and is on the RBCiv list.
EDIT: Unrelated to the original post... when I used this technique I used tanks and Infantry even though MA and MI were available. When I got to where I was going I rushed a rax in the final town and was able to upgrade the stack on the following turn with instant healing. I also generated 3 leaders (I think) in the attack and so headed home with 2MI armies and an MA army, all fully healed. The AI were not interested in attacking this stack. I was able to win by 20K within 10 turns of this.
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