This is a shameless self-plug; I've made a couple of diagrams I consider very useful, and I wanted to share them with this community, since I could have used them when I started playing.

The first diagram shows a summary of what unit upgrades to what unit, and includes all the UUs (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/8083/122).

There's also a GaK version available (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/74301/122), which also takes into consideration special upgrade paths (e.g. Dromon).

The second diagram shows a summary of what are the requirements for the various promotions (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/15846/122). Again, I will attempt to keep it updated with future patches.

A version of the promotion chart for 1.0.1.511 can be found here (http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3589).

Great stuff. Thank you :)

Welcome to the forums. :wavey:

And thanks for the charts. They provide much more coherent information than the civilopedia. :goodjob:

Those are some excellent diagrams, thankyou for sharing !!!

Welcome to the forums :goodjob:

Moved to tutorials + references.
Because it's a reference, and it's indeed a nice one, great charts, thank you :).

Moved to tutorials + references.
Because it's a reference, and it's indeed a nice one, great charts, thank you :).
Sorry, my bad. I thought this forum was for references and tutorials for mod development only, didn't realize it was for gameplay references as well.

Thanks for this :)

Thanks, I have almost 200 hours of game play and I still had no clear picture of what leads to what promotion wise :goodjob:

Excellent job there OP. Was looking at the Civilopedia for this kind of info the other day and getting frustrated by it's inadequacies.

Cavalry doesn't upgrade into Tank anymore? That makes me care even less about mounted units than I already did.

This is a shameless self-plug; I've made a couple of diagrams I consider very useful, and I wanted to share them with this community, since I could have used them when I started playing.

The first diagram shows a summary of what unit upgrades to what unit, and includes all the UUs (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/8083/122). I will attempt to always keep that post up-to-date with new patches and DLCs.

The second diagram shows a summary of what are the requirements for the various promotions (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/15846/122). Again, I will attempt to keep it updated with future patches.

Thanks for your great chart! There is a Civ5 War Academy written, and I am doing the part about promotions and would like to use your nice picture. There are some mistakes though regarding scouting and survivalism: scouting II gives 1 extra move and survivalism II gives +50% defense bonus and survivalism gives +50% defense bonus and heals the unit every turn despite the fact the unit moves or not.

Thanks for the heads-up, zyx! Chart fixed. It's a bit less pretty now with all the information I had to cram in the scout's promotions, but more accurate :)

The chart might not win a beauty contest if you were in the jury, but I still think it is great.

Thank you for the flow charts! They look great when printed on A3.

Maybe you can include H'wacha as Korea's replacement for Trebuchet?

I've updated the promotions chart now for 1.0.1.511 (click (http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3589); yes, I know, a bit late), but seeing that the OP had recently been online, I think I just should have asked for an update instead of doing it myself ^^.

For an "in game" version of the promotion tree see http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?118843-MOD-UI-Promotion-Tree

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/7007161899_a7bd4d6024.jpg

For an "in game" version of the upgrade tree (which adapts to any loaded mods for the current game) see http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?119570-MOD-UI-Upgrade-Tree

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5120/6967643120_67f944674d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whoward69/6967643120/)

Evahaut: I just didn't bother with the H'wacha because it's just one unit and it's covered by the notes in the bottom. I'll update it when Gods and Kings comes out, and will include Korea's UU.

The_J: what did I miss? I'll update it if there's any mistake, but I can't find it...

The_J: what did I miss? I'll update it if there's any mistake, but I can't find it...

I already updated it myself :).
No big things, just some numbers changed, not much.

I guess from your comment we can assume that you'll do the charts again for G&K, right :)? Would be really great :thumbsup:.

@SecondaryOak:
Thank you!

@whoward69:
Thank you too!

Can we expect an update for G&K :)?
Would really be nice to have. The first users already asked for an overview :).

So I made a upgrade chart for Gods and Kings (+all DLCs), at

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/74301/122

Currently not as pretty as the old chart, maybe I'll get to that soon :)

Oh, for an overview it's pretty okay :).
(not that I'd not like to have it prettier, but it serves it's purpose :))

So I made a upgrade chart for Gods and Kings (+all DLCs), at

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/74301/122

Currently not as pretty as the old chart, maybe I'll get to that soon :)

The fact that it gives me the information I need makes it downright beautiful.
Thanks for taking the time to enlighten the rest of us! :goodjob:

The ingame versions of these are now compatible with Gods and Kings