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What's your favorite modern day unit? (Time out:0 days after 24-06-2001, 03:51)
Armor
Battleship
Cruise Missle
Helicopter
Howitzer
Mech. Infantry
Nuclear Missle
Partisans
Stealth Bomber
Submarine
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King
Arizona
Apr 2001
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If you could only use one of these modern day, military units, that have the ability to attack, which one would it be. This doesn't neccesarily mean any of these untis will be in Civ3

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Apr 2001
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The armor is the best because basically its the backbone of your army. Also the ability to move three spaces really gives it the advantage in the battle field

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May 2001
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battleship.

i *love* the navy myself, and you cant beat 12/12 :-P

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Jan 1970
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Armor is nice when your opponent has enough spunk left to meet you out in the open, but when he retreats into his fortified cities I prefer to use howitzers and bombers to eliminate the defenders before moving infantry or armor into the city. Even battleships have a problem dealing with fortified cities if the cities have even half decent defensive units.

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Salt Lake City, USA
Oct 2000
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Why bother with anything else that you have a chance of losing?

Just nuke the bastards.

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Asia Pacific
May 2001
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Yeah, thats what i do, then use helicopters to overtake the city.

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Jan 2001
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Yeah, the Armours do all the "hard yards". And you need those mobil ground units to actually take cities. So if you are limited to one unit only, armours and helicopters are the only real choice. But even with a broad range of means, you still need plenty of armours...

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Jun 2001
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I agree that the Armor is the "backbone" of your army.
High defense. High attack.

Then again you could always nuke 'em. HeHeHe

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Panmunjon, hands up!
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But in civ 2 its howies. Hope they fix that in civ 3.

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Jun 2001
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Howitzer because it`s extremely useful for attacking walled cities

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Apr 1999
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How come the Spy isnt a choice? What a great unit. She could buy cities, steal techs, plant nukes, buy your little armor units right from under you

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Jul 2000
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I would like to say both Armor and Nuclear Missile, but I'll have to say nuclear missile as it gives you more bang for the buck.

A nuclear warhead will decimate a citys population to 1/2 AND destroy all units within four squares.

An armor costs nearly as much but is not as powerful.

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Apr 2001
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How come the Spy isnt a choice? What a great unit. She could buy cities, steal techs, plant nukes, buy your little armor units right from under you


Well, there is only 10 options for a poll. I used all 10 options so there wasn't any room for a spy.

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No room for a spy! Oh My! *Shame*

The spy... in my mind is a useless unit- but then again, I'm not a very good Civ III player!

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Jun 2001
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The Tank is the ultimate

The navy is boring, the air force is unuseable far away from cities (When you don't like the nay), stick to the land forces...kinda weird that I don't like the navy, but I love maps with many small islands on

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I hope they make tanks more powerful than howies in Civ 3. Currently a WWI tech is more powerful than a WWII tech.

Also I hope they ditch Skii troops and replace them with guard units or special forces or commandos or something. We don't have much call for skii troops in Australia!

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King

Nov 2000
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It's impossible to choose just one unit. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. A good mix of all 10 should be used in your military.

Now that that's out of the way..... just nuke 'em!

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