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That is a perverse strategy that works. It shouldn't. That's why I would like that global warming flooded coastal cities and destroy it (maybe it could survive if built in hills or mountains). Until worst effects of global warming were added, I need to say: conflagrations for your strategy, it real...

Caedo wrote:I'm not sure if transforming Mountains into Hills is always that good. If you want to make your cities grow, then of course, but if you want to defend, mountains are better (x3 defense bonus).

Agreed. I just put Mountains in the list for completeness.

I've attached a savegame from a recent game just after the hills transform + 2 mech inf, if you want to see it in action. Keep hitting "Turn Done" and watch the Messages to see how many AI units uselessly destroy themselves. Sell off the Eiffel Tower if you want to see more attacking. When...

Howitzers are an impossible problem when trying to invade a continent with railroads and howitzers. With enough firepower, you can take over a city as a beachhead, but the howitzers immediately take it back. The only solution I know is to get to that continent before the AI can build howitzers, and...

One nitpick: Your unit's chances of getting veteran status are not affected at all by the veteran level, strength, hitpoints etc of the other combatant. Fair point. I've found that the AI seems to mostly try to attack my cities with battleships, which is why I expressed it that way. I assume it's w...

Sorry to respond to myself again: One more advantage of transforming your city centers into hills is that they're impervious to global warming. With habours (seafaring), offshore platforms (miniaturization) and city center hills, it's actually to your advantage to cause as much global warming as pos...

Edit: It might not be as bad for defenders as I've written below, because, from the help files, "If a ship is attacking a land unit on land the firepower of both is set to 1." In the scenarios below (defender has veteran status, city-center hills, coastal defense, is in a city), a veteran ...

BTW, if you're not yet at a level where you can manage to accomplish all that before you're attacked, a simple solution is to build your coastal cities on hills. It'll slow down your early research compared to building on plains or grassland, so it's an especially bad idea for your early cities unde...

Note: Editing to include combat calculator results so that hitpoints and firepower (including, from the help files, "If a ship is attacking a land unit on land the firepower of both is set to 1") are taken into account. It turns out that city-center hills don't help much against howitzers,...