Talk:Minuteman/@comment-202.124.75.224-20100822123039

Minuteman has its own advantages and disadvantages.

For minuteman, you can select and ship in a card that can call minuteman for the second time.

This will come in handy if you ever want to build an army over the 200 population limit.

What, over the population limit?? - That's right!

Minuteman can be called out, even if you have a full population. One of the secret is, if you destroy your town centre and rebuild it again, you get access to another batch of minuteman. And if you rebuild your town centre over and over again, eventually you can build an army of 600-800 troops.

Sure minuteman has only 1 hitpoint before they die, but if you have 600 minuteman, they just simply overwhelm and overrun all enemy positions.

Make sure you use your population of 200 to produce villagers and artillery and cav before building your massive minuteman army.

Trust me, when your enemy sees an army of 600 minuteman, its simple human psychology that the shear number will first cause fear before they make stupid mistakes. Sometimes they don't even put up a fight and just surrender for the sake of avoiding their colony from being totally burnt to the ground.