Disagree mostly. IMO, the conquest expansion adds a lot to civ3.
Firstly, the AI DO NOT get any advantage in combat. The AI get production bonus in higher difficulties, and thus can field a larger army. But the computer do not get any combat bonus.
Combat in civ3 depend quite abit on luck, as weaker units now have a higher change to win a stronger unit, due to the random number generator in civ3. I agree that this a a bad system, but this problem have been around since vanila civ3, so it is not the fault of the expansion.
And the archer is NOT unless at all! If you look at the stats, it have a attack of 2, compared to the warrior attack of 1, both have the same defence and movement point of 1, with the archer having a defensive bombard , so the archer is acttually better than the warrior. Therefore, archer beating spearman is quite possible, and spearman have a defence of 2, same as the attack of archer.
I advice you to play a few more games before giving up, possiblily playing at an easier difficulty.
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