Has anybody ever tried simplified combat???

[Shaka Naldur]

after a few years playing civ and civ2 I decided to try the simplified combat and I don't like at all and also I don't see the point.
Does anybody know why it is there???
What is the point??

[SilverDragon]

Its the Civ1 system, without HP or FP. Its for people who liked the civ1 combat.

[Seeker]

Without HP and FP it is possible to conquer far faster, 1 tank can take out a whole city of riflemen for example.

[War4ever]

or you can have disaterous losses, i tried it and i like the new system better

[Seeker]

I think the old system is more favourable to the AI.

[Scouse Gits]

Yes, I tried it once - never again!

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[Hasdrubal]

I've done it once. Partly out of nostalgia to Civ I, and partly because I was starting a game on a very islandy map. The advantage is, that your ships will either sink after a battle, or win and be able to cruise along at top speed. How I hate it when one of your ships sustains heavy damage, and then has to wait a dozen turns or so somewhere at the North-pole or wherever before it can continue at full speed! IMHO, the simplified combat has its use in a heavy naval-based game, otherwise it is best left unused. The hitpoints system is much more realistic.

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Ceterum censeo Romanem esse delendam.

[Hodad]

Tried it once... a warrior took out my pikeman! NEVER again.

[Oldman]

At first i thought the new system sucked when i changed from civ to civ2, but then i forgot how it used to be and embraced what it is, now i can't stand how it was and just play it as it is!!!! does that make sense? or am i waffling again... Gazes off into space..

I actually played the orignal about a month ago, i found it on the internet (whoops, am i allowed to say that out loud???) but i didn't get more than about 2000 years before i got fed up with the way it played. Maybe i'll give it a proper go one time for nostalgias sake, or whatever!!!

[Huey]

quote: At first i thought the new system sucked when i changed from civ to civ2, but then i forgot how it used to be and embraced what it is...

Like a German in Fate of Atlantis said just before he was ko'd by Indiana Jones: "My tots ekzekly."

[Empress]

umm.. where is the option for simplified combat?

[Paul]

When you start a game one of the options is customize rules. If you select that you can check simplified combat.