#Civ 5 gunpowder units mod

If you blindly charge in a doomstack against a decent opponent they can easily destroy it even with less forces. The AI on high difficulties will still make warfare an incredible slog:Д«eing able to stomp the AI's armies even when you're massively outnumbered is not a good thing.Дoomstacks have a built-in counter mechanic in the game, collateral damage. Because I remember those twenty minutes of mindlessly, repetitively sending my grossly powerful tanks into unloseable battle after unloseable battle, grinding down primitives who could deal no damage to me, just because the game mechanics let everyone stack a bazillion units in a single tile.ДЄgain, that's not a stack problem, that's a unit cost problem.

That memory is why I have a visceral, intense reaction against doomstacks in general, and why I can't take anyone who says 'Civ V/BE getting rid of doomstacks was a bad thing' seriously. At no point were they a military threat, but it was the worst experience I've ever had in a civ game grinding down that doomstack. It took me twenty goddamn minutes to grind down the stack of primitive spear and swordsmen in their capital because of how many they had. Not a combat problem, mind you, but a tedium problem. So I encircled the enemy capital and started sending in the tanks. As it should be there was no cichanery with spearmen beating battleships here, nosiree. I had massively more production, and the enemy could do basically no damage to my grossly powerful future units. So my mighty armored legions and power-armored killing machines and genetically engineered tentacle monsters ran roughshod over my enemy. Indeed, the enemy I'd chosen to start the grand Facehugger world tour had just discovered gunpowder, though I think the others had started to advance into the industrial age and just started putting out those WWI style tanks. Now, since I played well and lucked out with terrain and resources that game I was able to do this while most of my enemies were a lot more primitive.

#Civ 5 gunpowder units mod

I was playing the Rise of Mankind mod as I recall, and I'd advanced deep into the future with stuff like mammoth tanks, orbital bombers and the like. Let me tell you about a story from Civ IV. Maybe that's your idea of fun, but it isn't most people's. Not the 'I can kill anything with any 10 stone age units or 5 archer units, where is your god now?'ДЄnd the AI was so crippled by the movement system that sometimes it just stood there doing nothing. You won if you had the bigger, more well equipped army in better terrain. Civ 5 combat was the worse combat system since civ 1 (or civ 3, the game where I finally quit playing after a single swordsmen killed 3 of my modern armor units in the middle of an empty plain, and a trireme killed 3 of my destroyers).ДЄt least civ 4 stacks of death was more realistic. They 'fixed' that by simply giving the robot more hit points, but that just meant you just needed more warriors, and did nothing about the reason why it was possible to kill modern/future era units with thrown rocks. The game where you can take down a fusion-powered rocket-armed giant death robot with 5 chariot archers or 10 warriors.