In the average game, do you build manhatten project before the turn before your spaceship arrives?

Yes: 1
No: 0

Anyone who breaks the format will not have their vote counted.
And.. Prince Silverdragon's coronation ceremony!!!!!

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Go Redskins!

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Go Redskins!

My answer is like RNF's. If I'm preserving an AI city or two as a "reservation" and their tech is no threat, I'll build it for the Wonder and the points. Other than that, I have no use for it.

Yes, of COURSE I had to try it out in one game, and that was against a truly threatening enemy. Ya know, that siren was kinda chilling . . .

yes: 5
no: 5

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Go Redskins!

I don't so much like it when the other side builds nukes to. Indeed, I vastly prefer for the other side to have something like, say, Musketeers.

quote: Originally posted by SilverDragon on 12-04-2000 08:32 PM Poll: In the average game, do you build manhatten project before the turn before your spaceship arrives?

Yes: 8
No: 5

Not for any reason, but there isn't much else to do and I don't want my world polluted which is likely to happen if I build it earlier.

quote: And.. Prince Silverdragon's coronation ceremony!!!!!

Congrats! Mine is not far away

I has never yet let an AI civ survice to the tech level needed for nukes. I play with civ on restart mode and kill each color twince during a long game.

Yes:9
No:7

My games Almost never reach AC or Manhatten but I replied to poll because I wouldn't cause score isn't my thing. I like to role-play the conqerer.
Maelhavok

In (ancient) Civ1, many times I would find myself in a situation where an AI civ had already launched a spaceship. At that point, one must find and take the capital city of the spaceship-empire. Typically, a small, but potent task force composed of; 1 carrier w/bombers & 2 nukes, 4-5 cruisers as outriders, 3-4 battleships, and at least 1 (preferably 3 or 4) transports full of mobile troops. 1 nuke clears a coastal city. Move the transports into the coastal city you nuked. Nuke the capital, then move in w/mobile units. All you have to do is take it once. They may well take it back, but the spaceship is already down. Generally, the whole force is expendable. After it crashes the enemy spaceship, wreak havoc--plunder like there's no tommorow! DESTROY anything you can reach, take cities and sell off everything you can. Leave them open, let the enemy take them back, and then take them again, just to reduce the populations. While all this destruction is ongoing, build and launch your own spaceship.

This used to work well w/Civ1. It doesn't work so well in Civ2. Generally, ANY hostile naval movement WILL be smothered by innumerable cruise missles before it can reach any enemy shoreline. And SDI defenses can really put a crimp in this kind of plan.

From the Office of the Armchair General,
Exile

In CIV1 I built it ONLY if the spacerace has gotten out of hand (my hand).

In Civ 2 I built it once just to do it. That was the last I've seen of it except when the AI did built it itself onetime.

I never thought they'd actually use nukes because I had not used them against them.

I was mistaken.

with the AI you'll always have to be prepared for everything....

NO :12
YES:09

AI always builds it once another AI spaceship's on its way....or i try to get it...