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Old February 6, 2003, 13:27   #1
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Whats your favorite animation?
Mine has got to be the Battleship firing! I think it looks (and sounds) so cool. The way the guns turn to the side and the ship rocks back and boom boom boom! Especially when it is fighting other ships, lots of firing going on. Sometimes I have to turn my volume down when that darn thing is firing! I was once playing a game and my girlfriend was sitting near watching TV. I was in a large war during the time. Anyway she heard the ships open firing then she said, man you are really going at it over there huh? Whats going on? I laughed and told her alot of fighting, and its getting ugly. I am wondering who worked on the animations and sound effects in CIV3? Anyway whomever it was they certainly done a fantastic job
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Old February 6, 2003, 13:48   #2
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I love watching my jet fighters intercept AI bombers and shoot 'em down!

Second to that and one I seldom see is the nuclear bomb. Very realistic, very scary. And when I have dropped them, all hell breaks loose. But the jet fighters are best for me.

Good question, by the way.
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Old February 6, 2003, 14:13   #3
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Paratroopers. The first time I saw them float down I thought it was great. I've only used them in one game, but I keep making them in hopes of a chance to use them again.

Frigates, like Battleships, have a good look and sound.

I also like the way Numidian Mercenaries whip their spears around onto their shoulders when fortifying.

I like the little touches.

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I like how the jag warrior throws his axe up and down in the air... nice touch. But I also like paratroopers and the way tanks explode in pieces when the unit is defeated.
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I like the Indian War Elephant... I sometimes choose to play them only to see that animation...

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French Musketeers...Guys wearing what looks like pink dresses and carrying blunderbusses never fails to crack me up.
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My personal favorite is (now) the Guerilla w/ his shoot/stab routine. Occationally a Guerilla (or more correctly a stack o' guerillas) will take out a Modern Armor or some advanced unit. It looks cool to watch him bayonet to death a tank-like unit.

It almost psychologically devistated me the first time a Jaguar Warrior started pounding on one of my spearmen. The Jags have it in the 'sound' department for the multiple hit effect.

For the 'Pomp and Circumstance' Category, the Great Leader carries the day. It doesn't matter if he's fortifying, just standing around, or dying, he looks 'dignified'.
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Old February 6, 2003, 23:09   #9
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Well, most animations described here are my favorites as well, but there are others. Nothing like the ancient times!

I just love when a swordsman or, even better, a Legion gets promoted! The Swordsman makes the "M-YEAH!!!" and stacks his swords into the ground, and the legion makes a "Yeeehh!" and you hear it beatin' its sword with the shield, hehe. Looks like Braveheart, heheheh...

The warrior is pretty fun too. "WWAAAAAHHHH!!!"

Of course, there's also the longbowman, with its sarcastic "look-how-I-shot-those-pathetic-knights-in-the-head-over-there" laughing: "HOHOHO HO!". Hey, they laugh like Santa!

I like the Knight animation, but I think it would be a little more nice if it carried a lance instead of a sword, it when in battle he would try to perfurate its enemy with it (I know lances had commonly round extremities, but it would be for dramatic purposes). And when going around, it would be more menacing.
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The riflemen victory animation is great.

And pedrojedi, I think a better word for that is "impale."
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Old February 6, 2003, 23:23   #11
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Good ones! Yeah I forgot about the Swordsmen when they win how they slam there swords into the ground. Tough guys for sure there I think yeah, kick their butts!
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Old February 6, 2003, 23:27   #12
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Jaguar Warrior and Guerilla definitely.

I like the laughing-from-victory sounds of the ancient units and also the sounds of the Modern Armor moving its turret moving around.

The Berserk also looks fearsome with that axe.
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The rifleman sneezing when you wake him up. Had to see that about a half dozen times before I convinced myself he was really sneezing.
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I like the sword-twirling the Immortals do when lounging around. It's great when you have a line of them, and they all do it at the same time.
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Old February 7, 2003, 04:41   #15
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Nope. It has to be the Legion getting promoted after destroying yet another scum-bag non-Roman vermin unit.

Yup, that'd be it.
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I like the Knight animation, but I think it would be a little more nice if it carried a lance instead of a sword, it when in battle he would try to perfurate its enemy with it (I know lances had commonly round extremities, but it would be for dramatic purposes).
A common misconception! I blame cinema. Lances when used in anger had pointed ends (I mean why wouldn't they?) The blunt lances were for sport only (jousting) where you don't want to kill each other, just dismount them.
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And pedrojedi, I think a better word for that is "impale."
Heh, I was ready to put it, but then I was in doubt about its meaning in english, and got lazy enough to not pick up the dicionary and look for it. It's because the portuguese meaning of a similar word for impale, "impalar", which is used strictly for the kind of torture that Vlad Dracula used to like.

Thanks for the correction!
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I find the way Medivial Infantry wave their club is simply awesome. I often find myself yelling 'beat em' when I attack with them.

The battleship is also a good one. They look SO powerful when their guns go off.
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The french musketeer has a funny promotion animation. He takes his hat off and bows

That looks quite nice
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The helicopter bringing in units and dropping them off is exceptionally cool in my opinion. Too bad I've only seen it twice.
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And pedrojedi, I think a better word for that is "impale."
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Another good word would be "skewer"

Bongo:

the Medieval infantry use a flail not a club in their animations.

I love the Nuke animation, I like to save my game and let a few fly just for fun. The F-15 air intercept is also a great sight. I also like the amimation of a sub attack with the torpedos in the water
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I was hoping for better animation when different things were built, market places, walls, etc. And I thought the space race was going to be a space race from the moon to Mars to some other place with great DVD animation. So, the events’ animations were quickly off my favorite list. However, I love to see the increased range my calvary can move over my knights. If you and your allies have a technology advantage, then it is a good time to get an enemy to declare war on you. One good way to change the government leadership is to have an enemy declare war on you so that you can invade them. However, this starts a rebellion movement and increases criminal and covert anarchy. Diplomacy takes a lot of money, time, trading and "sucking-up." The knights move only a few squares. And soon your enemy will find a way to develop the musketeer. The calvary comes just in time from navel ships and overland. The same animation thrills occur with tank destruction, nothing like developing computers and synthetic fibers to see your mobile units in action.
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My favourite animation is the Tanks death. where the top explodes and the tank hoppes into the air.
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Has to be the Siphais attack/defend animations. Whats cooler then a mounted guy with armor and two pistols? Heh.
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I like the Siphais flipping pistols animation, too. Like Arnold in T2.

I think that our friend from Brazil was looking for the word perforate.

I like the way the Infantry ejects a shell for its fidget animation.

And you got to love the snooty Musketeer. You can just hear the silent x's.
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I had forgotten many of the animations listed in this thread. Paratrooper paradrop, sneezing rifleman, upgrades to ancient units......love 'em all.

The animation that came to mind first for me was the marine attacking. I think it's the only man-portable machine gun in the whole game. The marine has a so-so attack strength and you can't help but cheer him on, it just feels better when he wins than with other units.

I am still waiting for an enemy to attempt a bombing run near a fighter defended city of mine. I want to shoot that sucker DOWN.
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Marines have an interesting sound during battle . . .

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I had forgotten many of the animations listed in this thread. Paratrooper paradrop, sneezing rifleman, upgrades to ancient units......love 'em all.

The animation that came to mind first for me was the marine attacking. I think it's the only man-portable machine gun in the whole game. The marine has a so-so attack strength and you can't help but cheer him on, it just feels better when he wins than with other units.

I am still waiting for an enemy to attempt a bombing run near a fighter defended city of mine. I want to shoot that sucker DOWN.
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The marine has a so-so attack strength and you can't help but cheer him on, it just feels better when he wins than with other units.
Specially when you use him in his "special" way landing form a transport!

I remember one of my dearest civ games, when I made a empire-crushing coordinated attack, and it was so well coordinated (I can't be humble now, that was SO cool!) that I had a lot of marines just waiting for the D-Day, outside of the water limits. There were so many that even the heavy losses I got while landing on the enemy city guarded with infantry did not stripped me out of marines, and I found myself with a lot of them just walking by.

That time the choppers and paratroopers had also their role in road-blocking, and lots of bombers destroyed most of the good ones left. The great and invincible Greek Empire did not last more that 5 turns. Its remainings eventually fell to my power in another 5 turns later (they had some colonies in an island).

Many animations during that, SOOO much fun. I wish I had that game saved with me.
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