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Civilization question
Posted: 2005-11-09 10:19am
by Sir Sirius
Has there ever been a unique unit that was worse then the regular unit it replaced in any of the four Civilization games?
Re: Civilization question
Posted: 2005-11-09 10:29am
by The Yosemite Bear
Sir Sirius wrote:Has there ever been a unique unit that was worse then the regular unit it replaced in any of the four Civilization games?
erm
well depends on the version but II had a funny quirk with the progression on the rapid mobil types.
you could discover Chivilry AFTER you had discovered Monotheism, and actually have your units downgraded...
Posted: 2005-11-09 10:30am
by Vympel
"Unique units" were only introduced back in Civilization III, so it's only been two games so far. Since Civ III sucked big balls, I wouldn't know. I'm way too busy with Rome BI to start playing Civ IV right now, though the box sitting on my desk looks very tempting.
Re: Civilization question
Posted: 2005-11-09 11:43am
by Thunderfire
Sir Sirius wrote:Has there ever been a unique unit that was worse then the regular unit it replaced in any of the four Civilization games?
No. All units were "better". Some civilizations have pretty useless unique units e.g. american F-15 in Civ3.
Posted: 2005-11-09 03:02pm
by Stark
Well, the uniques could be bad, in that the tech recommendations shunted you towards your unique quickly, even if it isn't useful or you're rapid teching and don't want it.
Posted: 2005-11-09 06:23pm
by The Yosemite Bear
even the jagaur warrior had it's uses. it was 1/1 with a move of 2. What did it do? Revealed the map really well early game, and more or less killed a shitload of barbarian units.
Posted: 2005-11-09 07:55pm
by The Jester
The Yosemite Bear wrote:even the jagaur warrior had it's uses. it was 1/1 with a move of 2. What did it do? Revealed the map really well early game, and more or less killed a shitload of barbarian units.
The Jaguar Warrior was god.
Posted: 2005-11-10 12:17am
by Akhlut
Mongol Keshik, possibly. It's movement wasn't affected through hills, but it had less defense than a knight (which it replaced).
Other than that, most of them were useful.
Posted: 2005-11-10 10:10am
by Ubiquitous
The English Man-O-War in Civ 3 was shit, raw shit. It was useless as by the time you had built a fleet of the ships, the enemy was going around in Ironclad's or Destroyers.
In civ 4 however, England now have Redcoats to replace Riflemen, which is a really useful UU. It was the turning point in my war with Arabia in my last game.