CB Mod Spoilers and Help

Velociryx · July 11, 2002, 14:56

'k...first, a disclaimer...don't read it unless you really wanna know!
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If you're having trouble getting started, here are some things I discovered, and recommend:

1) Make extensive use of Mercs in the early game. Yeah, they suck, but they don't cost pop points! They are all terrain as roads, and can go forth and uncover the map like nobody's business in sufficient number. Good unit for that.

2) If you're playing Fury (default human player), recommend you build a barracks ASAP, and get a pair of veteran Saddlemen to go with the one you start the game with, and burn a leader to form up an army. Not only will you be able to take an offensive stance against any faction that causes you trouble, but you'll also be able to use that army to stop the Nilrogg from raiding your treasury!

3) Basic Bresearch first!!!! You already have a mounted unit, so can afford to wait till you're building libraries to go a bit up the combat tech tree!

4) Before you add too much to your holdings via conquest, strongly consider getting the level one espionage tech. The espionage branch tree is great cos most of the improvements you get via that branch are cheap, including the Tavern, which has the same happiness effect as a Temple. Highly recommended!

5) Until you get your defenses up, don't get too rowdy with your neighbors.....This probably means waiting till you get to Defensive Tactics, and can start building better defenders. The ATV aspects of Mercs and Runners make them really hard to defend against.

6) If you see Nilrogg heading toward your cities before you get Defensive tactics (and you prolly will), run, or try to beat them with Mercs to preserve your pop-point costing units. An Elite Saddleman can MAYBE take a Nilrogg by himself, but if you want to be sure, have 2-3 at the ready.

-=Vel=-

Solver · July 18, 2002, 08:25

Wait wait Vel, I must have missed something... the game isn't yet available, is it?

Solver · July 18, 2002, 08:37

Ah, that's for the Civ 3 mod... nevermind.

Velociryx · July 18, 2002, 09:06

Yeah...but I can hardly wait to start writing the strat and help sections for the real CB!

-=Vel=-

Solver · July 18, 2002, 09:47

I can hardly wait to read & play

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moomin · July 19, 2002, 07:34

Any progress on the mod? I held off d/ling it since it seemed real raw over in the proper thread, but I'd be happy to tell you just how crappy it is if you provide one nice package with everything you need to d/l and a nice install readme file

FrustratedPoet · July 19, 2002, 08:16

We were waiting for the patch so we could place cities and units properly.

Things will move faster now.

Velociryx · July 19, 2002, 10:45

Yep....now that I more-or-less know what I'm doing in the editor, it should be no sweat to re-create the work done on the mod, and do it so that everybody can get it to work without beating it half to death!

Plus, the minimap will be a huge help wrt to actually drawing the map! And that whole placing cities thing....SWEET! Gonna get started on it this weekend!

-=Vel=-

Ogie Oglethorpe · July 19, 2002, 23:14

Looking forward to an actual look. Please keep us informed Vel.