Tactics Database

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by mapfi
Same thing with selecting a unit and point on an enemy city, when the pointer changes to two crossed swords there's at least one unit in there, if it stays a circle the city is empty and you can walk right in. Doesn't always but mostly work, when a city is in the shade, but never fails when you're right there. A bug, IMO.

Yeah that's definately a bug. I have seen that one before.

[HuangShang]

well... do yous still want me to keep updating the first post?

[Hermann the Lombard]

Originally posted by HuangShang but its funny to see them following rails

Hey, that was a classic form of navigation in lousy weather! Pilots called it "the iron compass." Unfortunate if the rail line goes into a tunnel...

I can see your frustration. This forum isn't much of a "strategy & tactics" forum compared to (say) the 'Poly Civ2 or Civ3 forums. I appreciate your attempt, as I too would like to hear more of the Wisdom of the Masters, at least the single-player masters who don't have anything to lose by revealing their favorite tactics. I suppose the MP Masters are perfectly willing to share their tactics...on the Field of Honor.

[Cookie Monster]

I agree, it is frustrating to see that there is not much discussion here. The Civ3 forum is bustling with activity. The CtP series are great games and deserve to be talked about more.

Ok enough of that. Here is some simple advice based on my limited experience with CtP2. In the beginning expand to the max amount of cities allowed under the early government. Set PW to about 10 and let your cities grow a bit. Overwork your people to the just before the point of mass revolts. Build up your army and hurt the AI any way you can. When a city reaches pop value of 7 or 8 see if you can assign anyone to scientist. You will need the proper advance that will allow you to do this of course. Mantain constant diplo relations with as many civs as possible and trade trade trade.

Maybe this is not as deep as others can contribute but I hope this helps out beginners.

[HuangShang]

still no one has answered my question....

[J Bytheway]

I would appreciate you still updating the first post, but I think it would be more helpful (and easier for you) if you linked to the posts in question rather than copied them out. A sort of contents page, rather than summary. It would certainly help when people came back to check up on something they read.

[HuangShang]

if i new how to do that...

but update it anyway

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by HuangShang
if i new how to do that...

Use url tags (hit the "http://" button on the reply screen to see what they look like, for example:

This is a link to your last post

Or, to be quicker, just put the URL in directly, and it will be automatically put in tags. Like this:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1215552#post1215552

You can obtain the postid of a post by hovering over the 'edit' or 'reply with quote' buttons. If you can't remember it then copy the shortcut (in the right-click menu in IE).

[Shadow]

How can you tell which units are attack/flanker/ranged/defensive , before you build them?
I don't see anything on it in the manual.

Shadow

[J Bytheway]

You can tell if it's ranged by whether it has a ranged attack strength - the one labelled by an arrow hitting a target, IIRC; an atacker if it has a good attack strength (the sword?) and a defender if it has a large defense strength (the shield). I'm not sure about flanking, but generally flankers are fast units...

[HuangShang]

the great library says its flanking if it flanks

uh... im still getting around the link thing.... i cant quite get it

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
Hey I never knew that! Could this be considered an exploit or bug?

Personnally I consider it a bug. One thing is for sure though and that is it works everytime and no one could tell if someone is using it or not.

[Dinner]

Another little MP exploit is to disband a city (which you think you are going to lose) while the combat screen is still up. If you disband a city during combat then strange things can happen, however, often the city will be destroyed and so will the entire stack of enemy units located with in the city.

It's a dirty trick but one everyone should be aware of.

[HuangShang]

thinking of something
k its been 3? days since the last post here so...
cant think of anything right
dont know what to say

[Shadow]

Just bump it up to the top of the thread list HuangShang, every few days or so. People will add things from time to time. It's a good thread!

Had those unit things mostly sorted out JB, cheers. Just wasn't sure about the flankers mostly. Might have a good look in the Great Library.

By the way people, what does IIRC stand for?

Shadow