HELP! espionage & precision strikes & upgrading units

[Syrio]

hey just played my first game. cool. and heres some bugs:

* coulndt use espionage options that should have appeared after espionage & intelligenge agency was built (just same old investigate city & steal tech. what bout the other ones refered to in the manual?).

* precision strikes. What a **** is this it tells me choose enemy city and I can only choose to bomb one of my own damn cities! thats bloody ridiculous!! whats this?

* upgrading units. some units just wont upgrade. I payed about 400 to upgrade all infantry to mech inf but one of them wouldnt upgrade (had art o' war, so barracks everywhere on the continent - not sure if it matters). and after upgrading, I have to fortify each one of those units again. whats that for??
(sorry about that, I figured it out with the manual, the unit was outside a city. problem solved).

* and battleships, destryoers, man-o-wars, fighters and bombers hardly do any damage at all. there I am bombing, sometimes I hit something, sometimes it fails, sometimes I get no info on what happened.

havent finished reading the whole manual, but anyone had any of this?

cheers

-- syrio --

[Ballz1998]

Re: HELP! espionage & precision strikes & upgrading units

Originally posted by Syrio
hey just played my first game. cool. and heres some bugs:

* coulndt use espionage options that should have appeared after espionage & intelligenge agency was built (just same old investigate city & steal tech. what bout the other ones refered to in the manual?).

You have to right click on the city with the agency and plant a spy in an opposing civ to enable the spy missions.

* precision strikes. What a **** is this it tells me choose enemy city and I can only choose to bomb one of my own damn cities! thats bloody ridiculous!! whats this?

Make sure you are in range... stealth bombers only have a max range of 8 spaces i think.. and fighters are less. (btw do the fighters in your cities/carriers intercept bombers????)

* upgrading units. some units just wont upgrade. I payed about 400 to upgrade all infantry to mech inf but one of them wouldnt upgrade (had art o' war, so barracks everywhere on the continent - not sure if it matters). and after upgrading, I have to fortify each one of those units again. whats that for??
(sorry about that, I figured it out with the manual, the unit was outside a city. problem solved).

* and battleships, destryoers, man-o-wars, fighters and bombers hardly do any damage at all. there I am bombing, sometimes I hit something, sometimes it fails, sometimes I get no info on what happened.

Yeah... it helps to have alot of them doing the bombardment otherwise the units just heal in the city. You either hit an improvement, a unit, the populace, or fail. so you have a 1 in 4 chance of actually hitting the defenders... plus units have different defense against bombardment. The way I've found is to use 5-10 bombardment units at a time on one city... you should have no problem getting the defenders down to 1 red block then... but beware.. the city will be ravaged hehe (they made war much harder than it used to be, you cant just waltz through the whole enemy continent in a few turns not matter how many units you have, because you have to occupy the cities as you go.

Also on a side not... have any of you had any success with your fighters intercepting bombers?

[Syrio]

Re: Re: HELP! espionage & precision strikes & upgrading units

Originally posted by Ballz1998
You have to right click on the city with the agency and plant a spy in an opposing civ to enable the spy missions.

Make sure you are in range... stealth bombers only have a max range of 8 spaces i think.. and fighters are less. (btw do the fighters in your cities/carriers intercept bombers????)

Also on a side not... have any of you had any success with your fighters intercepting bombers?

spy: Oh I see I didn't click anywhere besides the espionage small button. just seemed like the obvious place for it to be.

bomber: I'm pretty sure it was in range. the grid would only let me to choose my own cities!!! and I bombed one of them and actually randomly destroyed my own marketplace!

interceptions: sorry havent been attacked by planes yet. (easy level)

Thanks for the help!

[PGM]

Re: Re: Re: HELP! espionage & precision strikes & upgrading units

Originally posted by Syrio
bomber: I'm pretty sure it was in range. the grid would only let me to choose my own cities!!! and I bombed one of them and actually randomly destroyed my own marketplace!

Me too. I was wondering what I was doing wrong, glad I'm not the only one, I've seen 2 posts from people with the same problem. Precision bombing indeed... It's a definite civ3 bug.

[Chuckles]

It is plain fn stupid that the espionage options don't come up when you hit the espionage button. WTF!!!! STUPID!!!!