Buckaroo Banzai

I appreciate all the help, and if I'm getting on you guys' nerves, let me
know and I'll cool it...

How do you land guys on another continent? I've seen opponents do it, but I
have no idea how to do that...

Thanks again!

Fishman >

"Buckaroo Banzai" <blisteringlogicREMOVETOREPLY@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Build docks then a navy & then transport ships.
(navy is essential to protect the transports)

Load your troops / workers into the transports.
Escort loaded transports with the navy to another continent
Unload transports.

Notes
1) In earlier years transports are Galleys & Galleons which perhaps can't
cross oceans.
2) Later years you can build transports which can cross oceans.
2) Research Astronomy to allow crossing oceans.

HTH but my Civ 3 is a bit rusty.
Check Civilopedia for exact detail.

redvet

"Buckaroo Banzai" <blisteringlogicREMOVETOREPLY@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Aloha "Buckaroo Banzai" (you gotta be almost an old guy to pick that
handle),

I'm sorta, kinda, following this thread, you're play CV IV... yeah? I'm
still trying to figure out how to assign specialists and stuff. Don't
apologize for asking the questions I'm too intimidated to ask. - redvet,
who occasionally wins at the warlord level

Öjevind Lång

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In Civ III, build a fleet of at least three galleys with a settler and a
warrior/archer in each. One of them should be able to make it to another
continent, though there is a hgh risk for each galley to sink each time they
end on an ocean tile. Once you have built galleons, you don't have to worry
about that; they cross oceans without any problem.
In Civ IV, galleys can't cross oceans at all; you'll have tow ait until
yuo can build galleons.
Come to think of it, there should be a (rather smaller) risk for a galleon
to sink if it ends a turn on an ocean tile. Shipwrecks were very common
until fairly recently in history.

Öjevind

Buckaroo Banzai

"redvet" <redvet@lava.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, saw that movie in high school....


Naw, it's Civ III.


I'm just afraid that the questions I'm asking are super obvious and that I'm
being dense regarding this game...

Paul Hyett

In alt.games.civ3 on Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Buckaroo Banzai wrote :


Invent Map Making, that'll allow you to build Galleys.

You can load 2 units into them, but they have a 50% of sinking each turn
if you move them away from coastal waters.

When you invent Astronomy the random sinkings will stop in Sea squares,
and once you invent Navigation or Magnetism, they'll stop sinking in
Ocean squares.

All you have to worry about then is enemy vessels...
--
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

Alfredo Tutino

"Buckaroo Banzai" <blisteringlogicREMOVETOREPLY@yahoo.com> ha scritto nel
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I think it's a matter of not reading the manual... but that, in my book, is
a very minor sin.

Alfredo Tutino

"Paul Hyett" <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Also, if you build the Lighthouse wonder your galleys can safely sail in Sea
squares - and i think that Magellan's voyage will have the same effect (but
at that point you should be able to build better ships).

Moreover you should know that:
To load units on a ship in port (i.e. in a city) you use the "L" comand (or
a specific icon) - in that case, your units do not spend movement points
(they can unload / move in the same turn); you can also load them from any
coast square - just walk the unit upon the ship on a adjacent coastal
square, as if it was another kind of terrain. However, the unit will spend
all its (remaining) movement points for that turn.
To unload units, you can enter with your ship in a friendly port (a city
you, or one of your allies, own) - in this case your units will
automatically unload and be ready to move normally. Or you can unload them
on any coastal square (there are at least 2 ways to do so - if you simply
try to enter a land square with a loaded ship, you'll get a dialog box that
wil ask you if you want to unload units on that land square; or you can
directly activate the units you want to unload, if the ship is near land).
in this case, the unit will use its movement point(s) to disembark - the
normal movement cost for the given terrain. For instance, knights
disembarking on a plain will be able to move or attack in the same turn (but
not if they land on a mountain or hill square); foot soldiers will have to
wait for the next turn.
You can also transfer units from ship to ship,to speed transport, but that's
a bit tricky, and I'll let you work it out for yourself...

Alfredo

Buckaroo Banzai

"Alfredo Tutino" <MI0307@mclink.it> wrote in message
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Well, I got the game at Walmart and it didn't come with the manual. I've
checked out the Civilpedia, as well as faqs and walkthroughs on Gamefaqs,
but the game is so complex sometimes it hard to find specific answers to my
questions, for example. I want to mine the gold I see in squares of the map
in my territory, but what I read says to have the worker 'work that square'
but I'm not sure what they mean by that as there's no 'mine gold' command...