Civilization question

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-11-09 10:19am

Has there ever been a unique unit that was worse then the regular unit it replaced in any of the four Civilization games?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-11-09 10:29am

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...

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-11-09 10:30am

"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.

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2005-11-09 11:43am

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.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-11-09 03:02pm

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.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-11-09 06:23pm

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 Jester · Post by **The Jester** » 2005-11-09 07:55pm

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.

Akhlut · Post by **Akhlut** » 2005-11-10 12:17am

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.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2005-11-10 10:10am

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.

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