Base tiles

[Mart]

Reading some strategy info in one of the threads, i forgot where, i have learned that a good thing is to have a forest and a bunker in the base tile. What i found is that i cannot enhance the tile occupied by a Base with forest or bunker, but i can create a new Base on a tile containing:
-forest
-sensor
-bunker

interesting, so it can be done this way only?

[Method]

putting bases on sensors is generally a good idea...it means you have +25% defence that can't be destroyed by bombers or snipers and the like...but i never heard about a bunker. does it provide a bonus to units defending in bunker-bases?

[Skanky Burns]

I have never heard of bunkers under a base either. Most base locations are well and truely taken by the time that tech comes along though.

[Guynemer]

Skanky--what became of the Kenyan tiger avatar?

[Skanky Burns]

I changed back to my previous avatar. Ahhh, redheads.

[Flubber]

On the base tiles

1. sensor- good idea-- you get the 25% bonus and a sensor that can't be destroyed

2. Bunker-- I don't know-- I have never tested this effect. Personally I think its probably better to get a base plated earlier and get a perimeter defense.

3. Forest-- useless-- unlike the CIV games, the terrain of the base tile is irrelevant EXCEPT for specials (+2 of the special) and rivers ( add 1 energy) and the fact that bases can't start on rocky or fungus tiles. The flat arid tile should give you the exact same base tile resources as a rolling rainy.


I have found no way to improve a base tile after the base exists and in fact I have found that SOMETIMES you won't get a sensor on the base tile even if the former has started the sensor before the base is planted.

[Barinthus]

I may be wrong but IIRC I think I've seen forest growing into a base tile? Either that or I'm getting old

[Mart]

This way making tile upgrades before the base is established is the only way to get those excellent features there. And the only exception - spontaneous forest expansion as you DataAeolus observed. I wonder if there is still something more to it

[Barinthus]

Actually don't take my word for it. I'm not so sure myself. I'll have to experiment such as picking a base that doesn't have a forest on its tile. Then plant forest in surrounding tiles and see what happens.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by DataAeolus
Actually don't take my word for it. I'm not so sure myself. I'll have to experiment such as picking a base that doesn't have a forest on its tile. Then plant forest in surrounding tiles and see what happens.

Plant it first or have it grow in later . . . it still will not matter one little bit with respect to the resources you will get from the base tile. Whether a forest woll grow into a base tile might be interesting but it has no practical consequences that I have ever seen.

[Method]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Most base locations are well and truely taken by the time that tech comes along though.

that's a good point. But i almost never build bunkers anyways

It's advanced military algorithms, right?

[Mart]

Originally posted by Flubber


...it has no practical consequences that I have ever seen.

i think it is additional defence bonus from the forest, what i have heard

[Flubber]

Originally posted by mart7x5

i think it is additional defence bonus from the forest, what i have heard

hmmm-- that could be---I guess I may have to test this out-- an extra 50% would be HUGE although I don't EVER remember seeing this in bases with a perimeter or AC. If it were cumulative with those things-- OUCH for the attacker

[Flubber]

Was thinking about this and I know that in some CIV versions the underlying terrain made a huge difference. Wasn't there a strategy of placing a base on a mountain with city walls where a phlanx could regularly hold off a tank

[The Mad Monk]

Forset does not help or hinder a base in any way -- and forest does grow under bases just as easily as it does elsewhere.