March 10, 2004, 10:28
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Prince
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Impossible paratrooper
In nearly every game I play I come asross a civ attacking me with a large stack of paratroopers.
Mind you, this is somewhere in the middle ages and when I'm ahead in tech. So there is no way anyone could already have the tech to build paratroopers.
Can anyone explain to me what's going on? 
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March 10, 2004, 11:22
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Firaxis Games Software Engineer
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Only if you explain to us what you did to mod the game! 
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March 10, 2004, 12:14
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Try posting a save and I'm sure someone here will look at it and give you feedback. 
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March 10, 2004, 13:42
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I can't recall ever seeing the AI use paras on me.
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March 10, 2004, 13:43
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BTW is this using AP?
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March 10, 2004, 17:33
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Prince
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AI paratroopers are even rarer than AI armies.
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March 10, 2004, 21:38
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Must be "Realms Beyond Sid".
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March 10, 2004, 22:10
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screenshots?
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March 10, 2004, 23:32
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King
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i've seen the AI use paratroopers once in C3C. and they landed in there own territory 
was a modded game, small map, 16 civs, with huge world tech rate.
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March 11, 2004, 00:24
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Cool animation though, huh?
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March 11, 2004, 00:26
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Chieftain
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I've seen paratrooper and helicopter many times (less than AI army though), but never seen AI's marine. BTW, those are in CivIII 1.07 
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March 11, 2004, 00:41
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binyo, it seems many of the AI civs' uses of these kinds of units have changed as we've progressed through time.
Never seen an AI Para.
Saw one AI chopper: Dropped of a grand total of one Bowman.
Never seen, nor ever read a report of, a C3C AI Army, other than in mods.
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March 11, 2004, 01:57
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Deity
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I remember the helo drop. It was not to be believed. I don't recall seeing one of them either.
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March 11, 2004, 04:41
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Prince
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I'll post a screenshot as soon as I come across it again (should be somewhere this weekend).
Although I modded the game I never touched the paratroopers. I checked their prerequisits etc. and everything was still as it was supposed to be.
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March 11, 2004, 06:37
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Re: Impossible paratrooper
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Originally posted by Mannamagnus
Mind you, this is somewhere in the middle ages and when I'm ahead in tech. So there is no way anyone could already have the tech to build paratroopers.
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But surely a paratrooper wearing a suit of armour would plummet straight to his death?
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March 11, 2004, 09:12
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Prince
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They must be using those pyramid-shaped parachutes that Leonardo da Vinci designed.
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March 11, 2004, 11:56
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Prince
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I’ve never seen AI paratroopers or helo drops. I have seen a good number marines – wandering around on land - but never in actual amphibious assualt mode.
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March 11, 2004, 12:02
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Prince
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Re: Impossible paratrooper
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Originally posted by Mannamagnus
In nearly every game I play I come asross a civ attacking me with a large stack of paratroopers.
Mind you, this is somewhere in the middle ages and when I'm ahead in tech. So there is no way anyone could already have the tech to build paratroopers.
Can anyone explain to me what's going on?
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Oh that unit. Sure. It’s the Medieval Paratrooper available at Chivalry. The unit doesn’t so much drop from a plane as be shot over walls from a catapult. 
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March 11, 2004, 13:04
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Deity
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Originally posted by TheArsenal
I’ve never seen AI paratroopers or helo drops. I have seen a good number marines – wandering around on land - but never in actual amphibious assualt mode.
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You don't want to either. I have had marines show up in a few games and they are more effective than one would expect from the numbers.
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March 11, 2004, 14:30
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Prince
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I've had games where I've had a city on an island and thought, "Well, I'll leave that Rifleman there and put a couple of others on the rest of the island so that no-one can land," and forgotten entirely about the existence of Marines until I'm forcibly reminded by the sudden appearance of a distressingly well organised posse of them coming out of nowhere and taking the city with ease. They *will* do it if necessary.
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March 11, 2004, 23:46
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Re: Re: Impossible paratrooper
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Originally posted by TheArsenal
Oh that unit. Sure. It’s the Medieval Paratrooper available at Chivalry. The unit doesn’t so much drop from a plane as be shot over walls from a catapult.
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March 15, 2004, 06:12
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Prince
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I found the problem: the statue of Zeus was producing paratroopers!
I don't know how this could happen I never touched it.
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March 15, 2004, 06:55
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King
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divine intervention... we should have known ...
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March 15, 2004, 07:12
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Warlord
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Originally posted by Mannamagnus
I found the problem: the statue of Zeus was producing paratroopers!
I don't know how this could happen I never touched it.
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The dreaded statue of Zeus paratrooper bug
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March 15, 2004, 12:47
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King
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now theres a wonder that I want!
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