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[Arnelos]

Originally posted by E_T
Tanks can be built right away, Bombers & Fighters (for Vet Status) will need an Airport first.

SMC wants tanks to take out the Others Infantry.

E_T

While this is true, bombers are powerful enough to warrant at least thinking about their utility. Bombers also serve another role... you can bomb into oblivion cities you have no intention of conquering (because they would just bee too corrupt to be worth holding).

[Aggie]

I too would recomend that we build tanks, they will be very useful for the english/greek war. 20 tanks with artillery support can run down just about anything including infantry. Traditionally in these war I use about 10 bombers to assist the attack.
Aggie

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Aggie
they will be very useful for the english/greek war

You are assuming that there will BE an english/greek war. I'd personally count on the English one being far more likely than the Greek, but both are very questionable affairs... (if the poll conducted on wars was any indication)

[joncnunn]

Te first part is an argument for the discovery of Flight first; getting the pre-builds of Airports out of the way before we get the Tank tech.

Originally posted by E_T
Tanks can be built right away, Bombers & Fighters (for Vet Status) will need an Airport first.

SMC wants tanks to take out the Others Infantry.

E_T

[Panag]

hi ,

tanks are great , but when do we need this war , .....

can we wait untill mech infantry or is that to far away

do we really need tanks before a war , or do we have the possibility to go in before we have them , and add those tanks while the war is in progress

have a nice day

[joncnunn]

I'd prefer avoiding wars after late Industrail era. They are very time consuming and could give Presidents aching wrists from the movement of units.

20 Tanks would be nice just to keep the peace. Especally after they are upgraded to modern armor and our infentry is upgraded to Mechs.

There's some cities where it will be more cost effective to build modern armor as Tanks and then upgrade, while other cities should wait and build modern armor instead.

[Panag]

Originally posted by joncnunn
I'd prefer avoiding wars after late Industrail era. They are very time consuming and could give Presidents aching wrists from the movement of units.

20 Tanks would be nice just to keep the peace. Especally after they are upgraded to modern armor and our infentry is upgraded to Mechs.

There's some cities where it will be more cost effective to build modern armor as Tanks and then upgrade, while other cities should wait and build modern armor instead.

hi ,

, fifthy modern armor and some nukes would do a far better job then only a couple , .......

and if we build something we might aswell build in from the start , ..... a couple a turn can be done , while the other cities build improvements , and when they have build the unit we let it build something else , we should do the biggest cities like this , a unit , some buildings , a unit , some buildings , ......

have a nice day

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by joncnunn
I'd prefer avoiding wars after late Industrail era. They are very time consuming and could give Presidents aching wrists from the movement of units.

20 Tanks would be nice just to keep the peace. Especally after they are upgraded to modern armor and our infentry is upgraded to Mechs.

There's some cities where it will be more cost effective to build modern armor as Tanks and then upgrade, while other cities should wait and build modern armor instead.

The best way to do it is to build all of the improvements in our core cities FIRST. Once a city has every conceivable improvement, there's typically a time window where it has nothing to build other than military units (and such a city normally has enough production to pump them out fairly quickly).

If we chose this (much better) route, we could literally be having our sizable empire pumping out continuous streams of high-end military units not too far down the road. The key to this strategy, however, is NOT FIGHTING WARS LONG ENOUGH TO COMPLETE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS AND LET THE REST OF THE CITIES CATCH UP That may mean quite a long time w/o war because we're so woefully behind on improvement construction.

Quite frankly, the next possibility for a knock-down war (and by then it would be a cakewalk...) would be when we get our hands on modern armor... (assuming our opponent doesn't have nukes).

[joncnunn]

On the original topic, it looks like The Theory of Evolution build may be delayed a few turns. If we obtain a GL, the chain reactions would probably put us back on scheldue, but for planning purposes I can't count on it.

If following the discovery of Atmoic Theory, it's going to be 6+ turns before Theory of Evolution is complete, reserach a cheap top level tech in 4 turns while waiting.

(I've added this to the Sceince Advisory)

[E_T]

The ToE build should NOT be delayed. If the other Civs get Sci Method before we have completed building US AND the ToE build is delayed, then we will NOT get it!!!!

This is serious. I've invested a lot of time, figuring out the current Other Civ builds of US, and THAT's why it was o.k. for me to change the TFC build to HE an then back to US. I have also figured that our build of ToE will be JUST before the others get it, IF they are able to change to ToE.

We will get US before the AI (unless they get a GL). But delaying ToE in any way will mean that WE WON"T GET IT!

E_T