I'll just mod the unit out along with the GDR and new tech they are supposedly adding. I will certainly still buy the expansion, because they have worked hard on adding some new features to the game. Features I think will make the game feel much more complete. Trade routes, for one, hooked me easily.
I may not like that choice for a new unit personally, but it won't be a game breaker. Truly it won't. There are probably several needed new units coming up which will suit me just fine, we'll see.
I may not like that choice for a new unit personally, but it won't be a game breaker. Truly it won't. There are probably several needed new units coming up which will suit me just fine, we'll see.
or sheer bloody minded stupidity 
I cant decide which. There are so many oddities in the game that to get upset by the kind of cool looking body armored X-Com guys seems bizarre to me. You are playing a game where it's a realistic possibility that Attila the Hun could develop a huge empire that lasts thousands of years, where scientifically inferior Spain can be conquered by the Aztecs, where Gandhi is so driven with bloodlust that he slaughters other civs in his quest for power, where the Christian religion revolves around Stone Circles & Pagodas and the Buddhists worship the God of War. I agree there should be more varied modern units but I'm also for interesting future tech units and the X-Com guys are realisticlly only a few years off being real world - the paradrop is current as are the normal weapons and the suits are just enhanced versions of the body armor which elite troops wear now. 
I am just kidding. Civ to me ends in the modern era, with tech we have now in real life. That is how I see it anyway. I have no problem with you guys that see it your way. If you like the future so be it. 
