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Solomwi
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Don King of the Apolyton HLA Movement
Dec 2002
time: 23:35
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At least to me, it is. 
Situation: Scandinavia, Huge, Continents, Monarch, 4 rival civs left. I'm at war with Egypt, with the goal of total conquest, since they're my only continental neighbor (aside from one size 1 Persian town and the foothold the Iroquois just got that you see in the shot). The water to the north of the strait is a continental sea, as you can see from the mini-map. My main attack force is pushing southward, but my Marine armies have been eating up coastal cities left and right. I've had two transports parked at New The Hague ever since I took it from the now-extinct Dutch, long enough for me to have forgotten they were there.
Screenshot: New Elephantine, on the eastern side of the narrow strait, is across an extremely large mountain range. I can't even imagine trying to cross it with ground troops. I'm highly averse also to landing a column on enemy shores to be whittled away before even having a chance to attack. The AI is obviously aware of its natural defenses because it's only left two spearmen to guard it. With Marines, though, what could have been a painful march becomes an afterthought hit on a soft target. I now have total control of access to the sea, have avoided the agony of a slow march across the mountains and have another front open should I decide (unlikely) to attempt that march in reverse, and all accomplished with no casualties. As some of you can tell  , I just can't say enough about these little guys.
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Solomwi
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Don King of the Apolyton HLA Movement
Dec 2002
time: 23:35
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Chemical Ollie - Marine armies have been amphibious since at least PTW.
Mountain Sage - Shut up when I'm sugarcoating something . Actually this particular war has been strange in that the AI is surprising and somewhat impressing me. A few things stick out: 1. New Elephantine is the only city so far to be guarded by only spearmen. All the others have had riflemen, if not infantry. 2. For the first couple of turns of the war, every city I investigated prior to attack was about to pop out an infantry, and it had obviously been rushed. 3. It sent a caravel and galley, escorted by 7 frigates, all the way across to Trondheim (northwest coast, in that bay on the mini-map) and unloaded six cavalry right next to my capital. Well, that one was impressive in its daring, but mind-boggling in its squandering of 40% of its cavalry force. 4. Instead of the usual piecemeal stragglers coming across the border to get picked off one by one, it sent a stack of 33 infantry (no artillery, though, sigh).
Ian Anderson - Is there such a thing?
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