Oh, and everyone is king towards the end of the game, but you'll see that mp games very very rarely (esp. duels) get that far.

Graag

A vet battleship has many uses. If you like playing as a Democracy it allows the continuation of war without your Senate intervening. Let me explain.

If your neighbours on a nearby continent persist with “sneak attacks” – as they always do – the battleship permits you to blockade their coastal towns. If they fail to put anything to sea they can’t do much to harm your empire. (All this assumes that you are well ahead in the tech tree – as you should be playing in demo) Once you have bottled up the enemy forces on their own territory they cannot contact you for peace. They cannot send their emissaries out to your ships. Hence, no Senate conducting deals behind your back.

On many occasions I have used this strategy with cruisers/ironclads – but the beauty of the vet battleship comes with its ability to kill a defender in each coastal city every turn. This concentrates the AI’s attention on other things – like reinforcing its troops to the coast from their inland cities.

When playing in Fundy/Communism the vet battleship is wasted if it just conducts terrorism on the high seas. This unit destroys city defenders quickly and efficiently. It paves the way for your ground troops to conquer.

Your comments on the posting above seemed a little out of character. Were you sent to bed early?

On a happier note, I trust you are enjoying “Colonisation”

Aurelius, or was it Carolus Rex - Microprose does not want my money - I filled in their purchase order for CiC, FW & MPGE some $55 worth of stuff and they said "No shipper goes to your area!" - and just try out their so called "Customer Services" area!!!!!!!

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Scouse Git[1]

If we all want to be happy, I could order MPG for you and do the shipping for microprose and you could just order me the ToT and send it directly...and Sten could get richer....does sound complex

Both are aware of the existence of Liverpool, but only in theory. I would be more than happy to send you a copy of the advanced strategy guide. I have one on order from Amazon thru the Apolyton store. There is also a link on the Apolyton Civ2 home page for Buying that searches online retailers for stuff. By typing Civilization II and Books I got this link
http://www.buy.com/books/product.asp?sku=30136254

Now make that damn HAS stock go up like all of the other computer related stocks in the universe!!!

Aurelius
you're on! SG(2) and I will compose a shopping list over the weekend and be in touch early next week...
By the bye one of us will have to bite the bullet and reveal an e-mail address so that we can get in direct contact ... I shall twist SG(2)'s arm or is the farmhand@**** I found from your homepage valid for you?

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Scouse Git[1]

Just that I have had some bad experience with battleships.

It's valid! I think I've displayed it in public before without too much trouble. Let me know your list! I'm sorry that you don't have airplanes in Liverpool, but at least you have a slow boat in SF to dispatch the goodies--AU

By the way, going back to the thread, I like rifleman! I'm never sorry about having to develop the conscription advance.