THE CAMPAIGN for the technology of ...

[James Adams]

INVENTIONS, what we want is INVENTIONS, when do we want it NOW!

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[Gramphos]

Hu?

Should I include a path for Inventions in our next research poll?
That would be something like
Horseback Riding - Masonry - Writing - Literacy - (Currency) - Construction - The Wheel - Engineering - Invention

3 differnet paths, I suggest that you vote for any of them
(Horseback Riding - The Wheel, Masonry - (Currency) - Construction or Writing - Literacy)

[MrWhereItsAt]

Don't you think we're a leetle too small to commit public spending on a wonder of that magnitude? Why if this were a democracy then the people would be up in arms. As it's a Despotism then I personally, as a minor dignitary, will do all the string-pulling I can to ensure our people are defended with Pikes first. Which basically means I vote for them. Oh the power.

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Ah, but the caravans enter the scene with trade. Then wonders are a cinch to build! Especially if we have a few more cities on our continent dedicated to camel breeding...

[shade]

So if we compile all this there are 4 units that are quite important and will make us a lot stronger:
-camel(trade) so we can get tradebenifits and wonderbuilding
-Diplo what's better then a nice diplo in every city as defence against barbs or as bringers of enlightenment for foreign troops(read conversion)
-horses so we can explore at higher speed
-pikemen??(defence... I have never used these...what's their use actually??... )

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[Gramphos]

Originally posted by shade
-pikemen??(defence... I have never used these...what's their use actually??... )

As a Phalanx, but they have double defense against mounted units.

[Gramphos]

Now I want an answer, should the path to Invention be inlater research polls?

[Zealot]

Well, in really later polls, yes, sure.
We're in ancient times, for crying out loud!

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Zealot
Well, in really later polls, yes, sure.
We're in ancient times, for crying out loud!

That's why it aint in the current poll, but why this thread?

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Gramphos
As a Phalanx, but they have double defense against mounted units.

Actually, defense is multiplied by 1.5 versus units with move=2, hp=1, fp=1. Elephants, chariots, horsemen, knights, and that's all.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq

Actually, defense is multiplied by 1.5 versus units with move=2, hp=1, fp=1. Elephants, chariots, horsemen, knights, and that's all.

Well, I just read what it said in the Civilopedia. I almost never use them either.

[shade]

was just beeing kinda sarcastic...by the time foreign troops end up with horse/elephant/... next to my cities they mostly are already defended by a musketeer or so...

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[Vlad Antlerkov]

Re pikemen ability: Seems to work against howitzers. Though I have no idea why any sane player would have pikemen in the modern age...

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Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
Re pikemen ability: Seems to work against howitzers. Though I have no idea why any sane player would have pikemen in the modern age...

Ever thought of how that would look like a pikemen vs Howitzer?
KABLOEIIIIIEEEEE and there is a hole in the pikemen

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