Balancing the Howie

[ColdWizard]

i've made a zepplin-type unit, but gave it 0/0/3 iirc, with very long range. strictly recon-type of a role

[Gatekeeper]

ColdWizard, et al.:

Here are the specs for my "new and improved" cruise missile:

Cruise Msl., nil, 1, 12.,1, 18a,0d, 1h,3f, 4,0, 0, Roc, 001000000000000

As for making airships capable of carrying a single unit, would I just have to change the "hold" flag from "0" to "1"? Or would I have to toggle other options as well, such as "sea transport"? The only problem with that is the airship's domain is ground, not sea.

Gatekeeper

[ColdWizard]

you can't make aerial transports, one of the few flaws of civ2

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
What's a howitzer?

SG[1]

Indeed! If I get to howitzers, it's been a poorly played game. If the AI gets them, it's been even worse.

But yes, they are a bit too much to defend against. One easy change would be to reduce the attack value from 12 to 8. Or reduce the hp - after all, knocking them out shouldn't be as hard as sinking a cruiser.

[Bob_Smurf42]

I made some new units a while ago...never quite finished, though:
Navy SEAL: sea, coastal
Rocket Soldier: air, range=0
Terminator: would take out fortified non-vet mech. inf. on grassland

[Elok]

Man, I remember back when I first started the game and was playing on chieftain level; I had howitzers, the persians were stuck with musketeers, and I was basically whooping rear...
Then the persians stole robotics-with a diplomat, the lucky ******s! They were throwing howies at me within 3 turns. I was not a happy camper. Man, that sucked.
This is irrelevant to the actual thread, I know; it's your fault for triggering my memory.

[Gatekeeper]

That's one thing that's always irritated me from time to time — when you have a Middle Ages culture use a diplomat to steal, say, robotics, and the next thing you know, they've managed to backward engineer the thing and are spitting out their own howitzers and building their own manufacturing plants.

Yeah, right. Using that analogy, we should have had "gee-whiz" technology by now from that downed alien saucer from Roswell, N.M.

Gatekeeper

[SCG]

ah, perhaps those 400 horsepower engines really are horse-powered and the reason they ignore city walls is because it takes so many horses and manpower that they simply overflow the walls (its also why they have the extra hit points - it takes a long time to kill all of them off )

[Elok]

I always assumed that the tech that gives you mining, irrigation and roads also gives you some form of magical nanotechnological duplicator left behind in the ruins of Atlantis and Shangri-la. Or maybe they just bribed some factory workers too.
Hmm, I'm a chieftain now. Only about 475 on-topic posts until I can change this stupid camel avatar into something cool...sigh.

[Bob_Smurf42]

32 posts-congrats.
I've got 49, but who's counting?

[Scouse Gits]

I don't think Ming appreciates too much talk about post counts. He is very good at reducing them!

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SG(2)

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't think he minds flexing his muscles. It keeps him in shape .

[atawa]

But to be honest, I tihnk a lot of people here spammed the 100 posts or so to get the custom avatar.

I know I did

[SCG]

in responce to the threadjacking, one of these days i may look into some sort of custom avatar since i apparently crossed the threshold a while ago... can't really think of a picture i want.

back slightly more on-topic, i was hoping someone might comment on my rationalization of the medieval howitzers, or even how the manufacturing plants would really be worker intensive assembly lines that would be lit by candles. otherwise, it really is hard to picture how the civilization had the tools to build the tools to build the items requiring robotics. I would guess that howitzers were an attempt to show how advanced tech really would be superior to earlier weapons, and just got a little overdone.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I don't think Ming appreciates too much talk about post counts. He is very good at reducing them!

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SG(2)

A 10% PCR for the two parties in question would amount to 5 and 3 posts...

(... which is approximately a half day's production of the SG wonder )