[raynor]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
So? You get the exact same thing in the Civ games. Units with high attack and low defense, and units with low attack and high defense. It all boils down to the same thing. The unit design choices are not much of a choice at all in SMAC.

Don't forget Clean Reactor, Bombard, Nerve Gas Pods, ECM, etc. There were a significant number of extra design choices to make. Once again, given the limitation of Strategic Combat only, I was pretty happy with the relative plethora of design choices.

I have heard that the primary reason for Civ III was to create a Civ game with absolutely astounding AI.

Master of Magic. I remember playing that game before they disemboweled it trying to give it decent AI. It was fun at first but, oh well...