Favorite Modern Day Unit

TechWins · June 23, 2001, 18:47

If you could only use one of these modern day, military units, that have the ability to attack, which one would it be. This doesn't neccesarily mean any of these untis will be in Civ3

MarBaS · June 23, 2001, 21:23

The armor is the best because basically its the backbone of your army. Also the ability to move three spaces really gives it the advantage in the battle field

Inverse Icarus · June 23, 2001, 22:05

battleship.

i *love* the navy myself, and you cant beat 12/12 :-P

Dr Strangelove · June 24, 2001, 00:31

Armor is nice when your opponent has enough spunk left to meet you out in the open, but when he retreats into his fortified cities I prefer to use howitzers and bombers to eliminate the defenders before moving infantry or armor into the city. Even battleships have a problem dealing with fortified cities if the cities have even half decent defensive units.

Diablo, Bro. of Mephisto · June 24, 2001, 01:14

Why bother with anything else that you have a chance of losing?

Just nuke the bastards.

Alex 14 · June 24, 2001, 04:16

Yeah, thats what i do, then use helicopters to overtake the city.

Sean · June 24, 2001, 04:53

Yeah, the Armours do all the "hard yards". And you need those mobil ground units to actually take cities. So if you are limited to one unit only, armours and helicopters are the only real choice. But even with a broad range of means, you still need plenty of armours...

hetairoi22 · June 24, 2001, 06:19

I agree that the Armor is the "backbone" of your army.
High defense. High attack.

Then again you could always nuke 'em.

HeHeHe

Alexander's Horse · June 24, 2001, 07:06

But in civ 2 its howies. Hope they fix that in civ 3.

Dbrat · July 1, 2001, 14:07

Howitzer because it`s extremely useful for attacking walled cities

To_Serve_Man · July 1, 2001, 16:10

How come the Spy isnt a choice? What a great unit. She could buy cities, steal techs, plant nukes, buy your little armor units right from under you

DarkCloud · July 1, 2001, 17:05

I would like to say both Armor and Nuclear Missile, but I'll have to say nuclear missile as it gives you more bang for the buck.

A nuclear warhead will decimate a citys population to 1/2 AND destroy all units within four squares.

An armor costs nearly as much but is not as powerful.

TechWins · July 1, 2001, 17:22

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How come the Spy isnt a choice? What a great unit. She could buy cities, steal techs, plant nukes, buy your little armor units right from under you

Well, there is only 10 options for a poll. I used all 10 options so there wasn't any room for a spy.

DarkCloud · July 1, 2001, 17:45

No room for a spy! Oh My! *Shame*

The spy... in my mind is a useless unit- but then again, I'm not a very good Civ III player!

Adagio · July 1, 2001, 18:29

The Tank is the ultimate

The navy is boring, the air force is unuseable far away from cities (When you don't like the nay), stick to the land forces...kinda weird that I don't like the navy, but I love maps with many small islands on

Alexander's Horse · July 1, 2001, 20:31

I hope they make tanks more powerful than howies in Civ 3. Currently a WWI tech is more powerful than a WWII tech.

Also I hope they ditch Skii troops and replace them with guard units or special forces or commandos or something. We don't have much call for skii troops in Australia!

Sabre2th · July 1, 2001, 20:58

It's impossible to choose just one unit. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. A good mix of all 10 should be used in your military.

Now that that's out of the way..... just nuke 'em!