Is there any way of upgrading the units in an army? Like from tank to
modern armor.

That's right !
In a recent game the AI's Iron Clad sunk my Nuclear Sub,
I thought Nuclear Subs were "un-seeable" except by
1. Other subs

Two big recent question of mine while I still play Civil PTW are:
When your cities begin to have more people then actually squares to work;
What should they be doing?
Im almost always on Monarcy so I have enough police and luxuries to have a

I am playing my first game on Regent. I know it might not be that be a deal
for people who are at diety but I'll be there some day. Two Questions:
1.) 4 other civs and I are kinda big (25 or so cities) and France is on a
little bitty island with at most 10 cities. It's 1856AD. How ...

I recently bought this awesome game (found it dirt cheap at a local
superstore) some I'm sort of new to it. I have played Civ1 and Civ2 so I'm
not completely clueless.
My guestion is about different victory strategies. War/Dominance/Culture

I have Civilization III. Enjoy playing it but let's be honest... after
3 or so years of playing the game in one fashion or another it's
gotten a tad stale. Still enjoyable but kinda stale.
I looked at the umpteen different offerings on the store shelves and

I just finished my first Epic Conquest last week.   During the game I
had a Mayan gallery attack one of my cities.   I am still confused
about that one.  The gallery lost all its hit points during the
attack.  What am I missing here?  

Could someone please post civ3 conquests or gold edition, thanks..
Single player is getting to old, need the multi availible.

Ok, my first Deity attempt failed.
This time I decided to make one correction to the game setup
and three corrections in strategy. Instead of Pangea I chose
thick Archipelago. This configuration will result in much

Played a game on a giant earth map recently.
Got to Austrailia first, and filled it with cities.
However, production was limited to 1 shield, with all other shields wasted.
Rushed a courthouse, and was under democracy, so how could I have improved

I am building a palace to accumulate shields. I will have free artistry
in 4 moves and a palace in 4 moves.  will I be able to convert the palace
to shakespeares theatre before the palace is built?

...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively?  I don't
recall ever seeing them except defending cities.

1.  I'm in the final push to a domination victory, and have just switched to
Communism, after holding out in Democracy for as long as I could.  This is
the first time I've used this government in Conquests, and I expect to
remain in it for the rest of the game, which will be many ...

Is there an optimum number of civs and a map size mix that will give
you the best chance of getting a decent number of luxuries and,
throughout the game, resources?

Ok, I tried and I failed. What did I do wrong?
I set the game as Deity/Standard size/Pangea/5billion year old/Americans
After some 8-10 restarts I've got a good starting location which I liked.
Two cattle in the capital city radius, plenty of bonus grassland and a river.