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Attacking is almost a necessity in this game. The AI ruthlessly attempts to hem you in, stick you with a bunch of marginal terrain, and then mass troops to finish you off. To counter this, we humans REX, and hit them hard, before they have a chance to set up.
But perhaps hitting them hard is not always the best (most efficient) approach to take.
Now, ultimately, the goal of warfare in Civ3 is two-fold: First, to gain GL's, and second, to capture... more