The NEW Civ of the Week!

spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

Its here! The Egyptians! Post here everybody!

Edit: oh yeah heres the specs for the special unit: The war chariot.
From civ3.com :

Attack Defense Move
Standard Chariot 1 1 2
Egyptian War Chariot 2 1 2

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Phorever Phalanx · Aug 17, 2001

Interesting... some earlier game art had an African Cleopatra (yes, I know, Egypt is in Africa!), but the current one makes more sense - Greek with generations of in-breeding. One thought this brings up - in civ2 there were male and female leaders for each civ - in civ3 will there just be one leader? I remember researching some of the female leaders from civ2 - it was a valuable historical tangent.

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Master of Ceremonies · Aug 17, 2001

Is anyone else getting the idea that there won't be any miltary units in the ancient era with an attack value of 6 (like the catapult of civII)?

Both the Babylonian and Egyptian civs have special units with a 2/1/2 rating.

Any unit with a defense value of 2 (CivII phalanx/archer) will be hard to beat by any ancient unit we know of so far. Hmmmm....

It appears that the civ of the week is running in historical order. If this is true, we can expect Greeks, Persians, Chinese and Aztecs in the next few weeks.

Thunderfall · Aug 17, 2001

The right side of the page has the list of upcoming Civs. That's propably the order they will appear...

Upcoming Civs:

[Top Secret]

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spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

I'm not trying to diss you TF but that's just alphabetical order.

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Snapcase · Aug 17, 2001

Dammit, TF, you're getting lax. You guys are supposed to catch these news items before we do, dammit!

Thunderfall · Aug 17, 2001

Originally posted by spycatcher34:
I'm not trying to diss you TF but that's just alphabetical order.

Oops!! I guess I was too excited. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/blushing.gif" border=0> Thank God I didn't post that list on the main page! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>

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Graeme the mad · Aug 17, 2001

Ermm - I am a bit worried that the babylonians and the egyptians have, in esscence the same unique unit

Hopefully theyll ahve different hitpoints or firepower, ummmmmm, hopefully -

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Cunobelin Of Hippo · Aug 17, 2001

I'm thinkin' that the whole special unit affair is simply a way of 'unique'zizing the various tribes. They obviously aren't meant as major combat tools. Then again, if the Egyptians don't have horses (resource?) they'll have fun riding their chariots, while the Babylonians wipe them from the earth.

spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

Ahh but if the babs dont have iorn they'll be gone. But whats the point of even haveing a unique unit if there all the same?

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Hoside · Aug 17, 2001

I dont think the babs will get the same thing because like spy said whats the point if they all get the same thing.

Iroquois · Aug 17, 2001

Ok it looks like in ancient times a regular unit will have either all 1's or two 1's and one 2. Where a "special" unit will have two 2's and a one.

What this means is that if there are more than 3 civs with special units during ancient times then at least 2 of then will have the same combination. The only possible combianations with two 2's and a one are 2 2 1, 2 1 2. and 1 2 2.

That could be why the egyptian and babylonian units have the same combination.

Does anyone know where there is a list of all the civ-specific units and thier atributes?

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spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

Well then WHATS THE POINT building a special unit!

Even if you DID build yhem they wouldnt have any bonus aginst another special. Oh whats the point of even makeing them now.

Oh yeah btw i like your sig Iroquois

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Graeme the mad · Aug 17, 2001

Exactly spycatcher - i really liked the idea of UU's but now - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My emails bust - would someone please please, please tell firaxis to change this now otherwise I will start a bombing campaign against the CIv3 design offices and will start killing of the members of the families of the game designers

I really mean it

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Squirrel · Aug 17, 2001

Graeme, you really justify your signature.

spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

Man, you need help. And you messed you the page thanks alot!

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Graeme the mad · Aug 17, 2001

I changed it - all the little wittle people feeling better now?
Diddums
TELL THEM TO CHANGE IT (anyone know their adress for like letter bombs and stuff?)

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spycatcher34 · Aug 17, 2001

Ah shatup ya yap ya little spammer! But you are joking right?! he he... Its just a game you know! Nothing worth KILLING people over.

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Cunobelin Of Hippo · Aug 17, 2001

Originally posted by spycatcher34:
Well then WHATS THE POINT building a special unit!<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/aargh4.gif" border=0>

To give a unique flavour to all of the tribes. What're you guys complaining about? Their balanced this way.

spycatcher34 · Aug 18, 2001

Alright it looks like i thread-jacked my own thread

To get things back on topic: Post stuff bout the EGYPTIANS ok?

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