Radartower exploit?

[brianshapiro]

in war sometimes a strategy i use is to move workers in front of enemy units as a distraction , so i have time to move more units or to protect units from attack. it works because the AI will always take advantage and capture a worker.

btwe i find it stupid that the AI moves all workers into a city right before it may be captured

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by brianshapiro
in war sometimes a strategy i use is to move workers in front of enemy units as a distraction , so i have time to move more units or to protect units from attack. it works because the AI will always take advantage and capture a worker.

btwe i find it stupid that the AI moves all workers into a city right before it may be captured

How is that stupid?

Makes sense to me, I always move my workers where I can protect them.

[brianshapiro]

it makes sense to protect workers if you need to , but for instance some times the city was defenseless and my units were outside when the workers were returned to the city. but other times it was also obvious i was right about to capture the city and take the workers. sometimes i move them into cities to defend them if i know its safe other times its smarter to move them away

[DrFell]

It makes most sense to move the workers away from the borders, rather than into risky border cities. That way they can still do work rather than wasting time doing nothing in a city. I always have to chuckle when my scout units see the AIs workers all rushing for the nearest city, which gets taken the next turn.

[Carver]

And its not just workers. In one game I was doing recon flights to watch two AIs go at it (which I recommend if you want a good laugh). The French have no less than 70 infantry outside a Russian city, ready to take it the next turn. The Russians, meanwhile, decide to put a battleship in port in said city just in time to be taken. There was no naval threat to the battleship, they just sailed right into port in time to be destroyed by the Frenchies.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Slax
I assume there will be no way to see what tiles are within your radar tower coverage (ie an overlay) ?

hi ,

, it would be intresting to have the same like with the settler , ...

see the overlay , and then confirm "build radar tower" , ....

have a nice day

[Hagbart]

Originally posted by DrFell
Ah, but would the AI be programmed to be so creative? That would be nice. You know, it could be that you can only use workers of your own nationality to build radar towers and airbases. Would you trust anyone else?

Doesn't matter since the workers are sacrificed to build the Radartower.

[DrFell]

Sure it does, does that mean they all die when you make a colony? Who works in the colony?

[JohnM2433]

Maybe only workers of your own nationality should be able to build a colony as well.

WarpStorm, it's keeping track of several city radii at once that I find difficult. After the outlying land has been settled, I may want to plug a hole in my empire, so to speak. I then have to figure out which tiles are being used in order to optimally place my new city, and that means mentally combining the radii of several (maybe as many as 5) cities. Personally, I find this difficult.

[Firebird]

I think the workers must go when building something like the radar tower or a colony. If they where not used up, it whould be to easy to put them everywhere.

[Panag]

Originally posted by JohnM2433
Maybe only workers of your own nationality should be able to build a colony as well.

hi ,

this sounds intresting for all "build" options , .....

have a nice day

[Flandrien]

Originally posted by Hagbart


Doesn't matter since the workers are sacrificed to build the Radartower.

Which implies you should always use slow workers for building radar towers.
(Captured workers if your own civ has the industrious attribute.)