upgrading to uu

[animepornstar]

does anyone know how to make it so a normal unit can be upgraded to an uu? for example, when i´m playing my swedish civ i can´t upgrade the catapults to my uu, the light artillery.

[Dimy]

You can do that in the editor under the Units tab... select the Catapult and change the "upgrade to" to your unit... however, I fear this will mean that if a foreign civ upgrades his catapult he will get your UU too! I'm not sure how to go around this...

Dimitry

[Zippo]

Dimitry is right. You can set it up like he said but something funky will happen when other civs try to upgrade their catapult.

My fix is this: Create a copy of the catapult... make it exactly the same as the regular catapult except with a different name... maybe Siege Catapult or something... and make THAT unit upgradeable to your UU. For steps on creating new units check out the Tutorials thread at the top of the Civ3 - Creation & Customization page. If you are really stuck post here and I can walk you through the steps (at my liesure of course, I DO have a life ).

[frust]

This is what I did and it seems to work well. You need to create a chain of unit upgrades including the unique units similar to the following:

Warrior => Jaguar Warrior
Jaguar Warrior => Swordsman
Swordsman => Legionary
Legionary => Immortal
Immortal => none

This way, everything will upgrade properly. The Aztec's Jaguar Warrior will upgrade a Swordsman. Other civs that only have regular Warriors will also upgrade to Swordsman because when the game is trying to upgrade it first looks sees Jaguar Warrior. Since these civs cannot build this unit, it looks to the next unit which is the Swordsman.

In this example, units would upgrade like this:

Aztec Jaguar Warriors upgrade to Swordsmen
Roman Warriors upgrade to Legionaries
Persian Warriors upgrade to Immortals
For all other civs, standard Warriors upgrade to standard Swordsmen.

You can do this same thing with all the other units. Just group them into categories, such as defenders, transports, etc., and create a upgrade chain using all the units of this type including the unique units.

This is how I have my other units set up:
(NOTE - Not all units are listed, and a couple of the units listed are new)

Scout => Explorer
Explorer => none

Archer => Bowman
Bowman => Longbowman
Longbowman => none

Spearman => Impi
Impi => Pikeman
Pikeman => Hoplite
Hoplite => Musketman
Musketman => Musketeer
Musketeer => Rifleman
Rifleman => Infantry
Infantry => Mech. Infantry
Mech. Infantry => none

Chariot => War Chariot
War Chariot => Horseman
Horseman => Mtd. Warrior
Mtd. Warrior => War Elephant
War Elephant => Knight
Knight => Rider
Rider => Cavalry
Cavalry => Cossack
Cossack => none

Tank => Panzer
Panzer => Modern Armor
Modern Armor => none

Catapult => Cannon
Cannon => Artillery
Artillery => Radar Artillery
Radar Artillery => none

Coracle => Galley
Galley => Caravel
Caravel => Galleon
Galleon => VOC Galleon
VOC Galleon => Transport
Transport => none

Frigate => Man-o-war
Man-o-war => none

Fighter => Jet Fighter
Jet Fighter => F-15
F-15 => none