I've never seen the AI use artillery effectively & never in a clever way. Yet, when viewing the AI Armies when I have a spy planted I see they build TONS of artillery units. 1 Civ had about 1/3-1/4 of their army as artillery!
Often these artillery just become trophies for me to use against them later.
So wouldn't preventing the AI from building artillery ((using the editor)) actually improve the AI?
If it's not building artillery...
it may build more buildings - Culture, Science, Factories, Wonders, etc.
it may build more military units it uses better - Riflemen, Tanks, Cavalry, Infantry, etc.
Yet, if I'm the only 1 who is able to make artillery, that seems like unfair advantage... but letting an AI waste it's production on building tons of artillery it never uses right seems worse. Perhaps turning off artillery completely would be more fair. Artillery is not as powerful as it was in Civ2, Civ3 Catapults & Civ3 Gunpowder are not the pivotal points they were in Civ2.
I am very tempted to try this, but I believe others here have probably played more games than I have. Have I just experienced some bad luck in terms of the AI's uses with artillery? Do others find the AI benefits from their artillery more than if they had another unit defending that city instead?
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So wouldn't preventing the AI from building artillery ((using the editor)) actually improve the AI?
If it's not building artillery...
it may build more buildings - Culture, Science, Factories, Wonders, etc.
it may build more military units it uses better - Riflemen, Tanks, Cavalry, Infantry, etc.
Yet, if I'm the only 1 who is able to make artillery, that seems like unfair advantage... but letting an AI waste it's production on building tons of artillery it never uses right seems worse. Perhaps turning off artillery completely would be more fair. Artillery is not as powerful as it was in Civ2, Civ3 Catapults & Civ3 Gunpowder are not the pivotal points they were in Civ2.
I am very tempted to try this, but I believe others here have probably played more games than I have. Have I just experienced some bad luck in terms of the AI's uses with artillery? Do others find the AI benefits from their artillery more than if they had another unit defending that city instead?
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