Can I fire my shipbuilders?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Historically, frigates lost to galleons quite often in the Carribbean. Galleons were built to protect treasure FROM frigates.

[Fighter]

I got realy realy annoyed when I had a Trireme running around bombarding me so I went to build a ship, laughed for a moment to see that trireme was obsolete so I built the newest ship, cant remember since I almost never build ships before battleships. So my ship finished production, I went out to fight the trireme and was sunk with no damage to the trireme!!

In my game now Im going up against this guy using Modern Armour, hes using old tanks. If I attack one of his regular tanks with my modern armour, my modern armour unfailingly goes into the red zone before winning! Ive had this happen over and over again, how is it possible that WW1 style tanks can stand up against something that looks like it could school an M1 A1 Abrams???

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Fighter
I got realy realy annoyed when I had a Trireme running around bombarding me

What mod is this, that triremes can bombard?

[DeepO]

The Civ 2 Mod Nowadays they are called galleys

DeepO

[Theseus]

Nice avatar.

[DeepO]

Thanks Theseus

DeepO

[Coracle]

I simply canot believe anyone is still using the ludicrous unit values Firaxis gave us, and that is especially so with naval units. Mod it.

Historically, frigates lost to galleons quite often in the Carribbean. Galleons were built to protect treasure FROM frigates.

Absolute non-historical rubbish and nonsense. Absurd.
Frigates came long AFTER galleons. But in Civ 3 a lot of reality is out the window.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I finally lost a Tank to a Pikeman. Still no Spearman though. It will happen. The odds say it will. Just not yet.

I lost with a vet Modern Armor to a regular Spearman in Minitourney 3. It just got not killed, but retreated in shame. Does this count? Btw: The Spearman got not even promoted.

On topic: Yes, bombard, and bombard again. Then attack. Even if you aren't able to attack, because you have only one ship there, the enemy ship will most likely head home to heal.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Coracle

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Historically, frigates lost to galleons quite often in the Carribbean. Galleons were built to protect treasure FROM frigates.

Frigates came long AFTER galleons.

Coracle is right about this. Frigates were naval vessels in 17th-19th centuries, whereas galleons ruled high seas much earlier, in 15th-17th centuries (I have just checked the numbers in Encyclopaedia Britannica).

[seano1]

Perhaps they could replace Gallons with merchantmen, which would have no attack and a defense of 1. Then they could then add Spain to the list of civs, and make the Gallon there special unit.