"He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude..."

[vmxa1]

Whats wrong with Henely and Frey?

[punkbass2000]

Is that question directed towards me?

[Catt]

I've found that sneak attacks are much, much more damaging to your reputation if you have an RoP in place. Without an RoP, I've found it to be damaging, but not so much so that per-turn deals don't happen. I often seem to be limited to per-turn for per-turn deals (no upfront payments), some AIs won't do per-turn deals, period, for whatever reason, and RoP's are much harder to get. The lack of an RoP really only pinches when a neutral lies beween you and the enemy, and your enemy gets an RoP with the neutral.

My guess is that you can sell your excess luxuries even after sneak attacking India, but only for gpt / luxuries, and not for techs, lump sum cash, etc. for a long time. In other words, when calling the doctor (trading luxuries) you won't hear "Doctor says he's coming, but you gotta pay him cash." ( lousy, convoluted reference, I know).

Catt

[Arrian]

Catt,

Thanks for chiming in. Sounds like a concensus has emerged - my rep is bad, but not totally ruined. Thanks all.

Theseus,

That's funny, that's how I've been doing intercontinental invasions lately too - even with religious civs. In situtations where I lack a foothold on the continent, and face the prospect of actually invading (rather than a troop buildup and then standard attack), I like to hit them with maximum force - which means one massive wave of troops and therefore a whole lot of ships. I will divide my forces to hit multiple targets symultaneously. The main objective, of course, is speed. Short wars make for happy democracies.

I often end up with silly numbers of galleons, some of which get disbanded in coastal towns.

-Arrian

[jshelr]

Related idea: In late industrial age, rebasing bombers to disband and build critical immediate improvements on new continents is about the best practical use of bombers I've found.

[Jawa Jocky]

Originally posted by jshelr
Related idea: In late industrial age, rebasing bombers to disband and build critical immediate improvements on new continents is about the best practical use of bombers I've found.

I started disbanding the boats in prevoius Civ games when I could build new ones faster than I can get the old ones back to port. However it never occured to me that I could be take advantage of the 1 turn rebase of Air units in Civ3 this way. Its so damn obvoius I see why I never thought of it.

Can we rebase nukes? That would save some time.

[Jawa Jocky]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Whats wrong with Henely and Frey?

They aren't Plant and Page

[jshelr]

"Can we rebase nukes? That would save some time."

Reminds me of a funny but true fact. If you decide to move a unit using the pointer and change your mind, then you can just click on the starting tile and nothing happens. If you want to fire a nuke and change your mind, clicking on the starting square is followed by a nuke falling vertically on your city. Trust me, don't do it.

[punkbass2000]

Falling vertically?!

[Arrian]

jshelr, you nuked yourself? Sorry, but that's hilarious.

-Arrian

[jshelr]

I was sorry too. And this was before I found the auto directory. So, I didn't know how to reload.

[Arrian]

Ack! That must have really sucked.

Jawa Jocky - I do not believe you can "rebase" nuclear weapons. You certainly can't do it with ICBMs. I'm unclear about tactical nukes.

-Arrian

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Jawa Jocky


They aren't Plant and Page

True, robert and Jimmy are different people and I like them as well.

[Jaybe]

You don't "rebase" tacnucs. Just move them like a regular bombardment unit.

Of course, ICBMs don't move from their city of manufacture until you launch them. For that reason I tend to not build bunches of them in the same city, assuming others have (or may get) nukes.

[Theseus]

jshelr,

Were your citizens complaining that it was too crowded, or "Hell no, we won;t go!"?

I'd use the luxury slider before a nuke, although I do get peeved sometimes.

R