Hwach'a, how good it is?

[Last Conformist]

Lethal bombardment pwns.

Unfortunately, Hwach'a come at roughly the time in the game in which bombardment units are the least useful - their lifespan is roughly equal to the era of total Cav dominance.

[justjake73]

Isn't that unit able to bombard sea units?

[player1]

All land artilleries are capable of bombing sea units.

But Hwach'a (and only Hwach'a) can kill them too.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Unfortunately, Hwach'a come at roughly the time in the game in which bombardment units are the least useful - their lifespan is roughly equal to the era of total Cav dominance.

How can bombardment units be 'least useful'?

Mind you, I'm still wet behind the ears here at Civ3.

I like to build stacks with 2-3 defender units, couple of artillery units, few melee-type units, and couple of cavalry units. Cavs are for clearing out the territory ahead, artillery to soften up enemy positions for assaults by melee units and defenders for counterattacks.

Now I realize there's no difference between melee and cavalry units, I probably will focus more on cavalry.

I haven't read everything in topped threads in Stragety yet, is there something on military tactics in there? I'm slowly reading the thread one item at a time.