![]() ![]() Because I was wrong about the penalty for attacking out of ships, I checked attacking across a river.I initially remembered the penalty was only 25%, which has now been corrected!. ![]() Test was done in Beyond the Sword, although I REALLY think this works the same in vanilla and Warlords.I gave them experience AND the upgrades by accident with the map editor, but checked the odds with the upgrades differing by just Cover vs Amphibious. I was concerned that taking Amphibious was not as good as other upgrades, (when I thought the penalty was only -25%) but it is CLEARLY better, if you can get your unit to level 3. Here you can see a Maceman with Amphibious, and the dreaded +50% is gone. I wanted to compare the odds of taking Amphibious or an upgrade against a unit type, thus here you see Cover. Didn't bother to fortify the defender since that's not important to what I'm testing, but the difference certainly makes this look easy! Test Setup: I used galleys and gave myself no techs to prove it could happen early in the game. I was not sure how to edit them down without making the combat text unreadable. Please forgive the size of these pictures. I do wonder: Why do you NEED to take the city? If that city (and others like it) are all that's left of a Civ, why not accept capitulation? You can improve your chances with smart unit upgrades and bombarding, but you're ultimately going to have to attack out of your boats, quite possibly with a lot of units. You can always take over the city with culture, although that doesn't look likely in this case. You can try espionage to weaken the defenses first. (OR nuclear weapons late in the game, if it comes to that) You can however: use ships that can bombard, or bombard with aircraft. If I recall correctly, you can not use land units to bombard from ships. Some units start with this upgrade: Berserkers, the Viking special unit, and Marines (including Navy Seals, the American special unit). This upgrade is sadly level 3: Combat I > Combat II > Amphibious. (similar to attacking across a river, except that defender bonus is only 25%) This can be removed by taking the Amphibious unit upgrade. There are just some problems with this:ĬORRECTED: The defenders get +50% strength for your units making an Amphibious Landing. ![]()
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