Civ4 patch & Gunships

"Broken Spirit v2.0" <radiohead3 RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Too bad I never live long enough to see gunships.
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> "Fishman ><(((°>" <nospam RemoveThis @butfish.com> wrote in message
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>> Just noticed that since the Patch Gunships now use railroads.
>> Looks like they are a useful unit now they can actually bet to the
>> battle!
>>

Well I usually die pretty early on but in my latest game Im playing the
Aztecs with the only other person on my continent being the Milanese. I had
managed to cut off part of the continent for my use using cities but was
getting hit quite often by barbarians from the northern wastes. So I set up
a couple of Jaguar units on the northern approaches to head them off which
worked well. But the Milanese started spreading all over and started getting
a little too close. So now I have gone on the offensive against them with
axemen and catapults using my horse archers to attack their improvements. I
have taken most of their cities after heading straight for their capital
first and mopping up the smaller cities afterwards. They have only got two
left in the south but Ive noticed a small new city in the north as well as a
northern barbarian city. Funny thing is once the barbarians set up a city
they seem to have stopped carrying out raids so thats good - I may leave it
alone. I'll probably take all the rest of the Milanese cities to the south
and leave the small one north out of kindness Perhaps.

But now I am in a good position in that I have got loads of cities without
having to build settlers and am highest in the scores. I havent fallen
behind in the technology as Ive been trading with the other civilisations
but I do need to shortly relook at my development and get some new buildings
going as my technology is struggling. I think the idea of building up enough
to be able to hit your neighbour as soon as you get catapults is a good
tactic although I say early its actually about 1400 now - and I still am in
the medieval era! Still aggressive tactics seem to be necessary in this game
to get a good foothold for the later part of the game.

Im looking forward to getting some nukes this time and blasting my
neighbours! Especially that Russian woman would keeps hitting me across the
face whenever she doesnt get what she wants.

Nats
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