Originally posted by: HBO
SMAC was great indeed.
Civ 4 looks like it'll have auto workers again that turns every square inch of your land into a railroad junction. >_<
But at least in the newer Civs, my battleship can't lose to a spearmen. Canoes, ok maybe it had explosives on it. But come on, costal bombardment against spearmen? Their spears can't even reach my battleship.
If I remember right, spearmen can't attack water units, but can fight back when water units attack them. As CIV's combat system is a very high level abstraction you can consider the following possibilities :
1) The spearmen lured the sailors ashore with sexy women, then killed them all in the night.
2) The drunken captain rammed the battleship into a reef while trying to get into bombardment range.
3) One of the sailors dropped a shell in the amory and the resulting explosion destroyed the ship
4) There was a bad storm and your ship sank.
5) You missed the spearmen, but your artillery fire caused a cliff to collapse into the water which produced a giant wave which swamped the ship.
6) The sailors rebelled against the order to attack effectively unarmed civilians and deserted.
None of these are particularly likely outcomes, but then again losing a battleship to a spearman isn't actually all that common in civ either*
* Disregarding super high difficulties where enemy units can be assumed to be favored by divine intervention.