and the swordsman upgrades to...?

[Exsanguination]

someone needs to make a medieval swordsman unit - bigger shield, longer sword, medieval looks... if one thing thing game lacks unit-wise its an upgrade from the swordsman. In the ancient age swordsman are so powerful... and its annoying having all those obsolete swordsman in the industrial age...

 

[Kilroy]

I have swordsman and longbowmen upgrade to marines. A medieval-age counterpart to the swordsman is a good idea.

 

[TheDS]

Musketmen and Riflemen, respectively.

 

[damunzy]

I have swordsmen upgrade to Knight. Why? Think of it like a squire training and finally becoming a Knight.
I also have the Cossack upgrade to Marine. (Knight goes to Samurai who goes to Elephant who goes to Rider who goes to Calvary...I might have missed something or misarranged). I don't like obsolete units.

 

[Ultraworld]

i have swordsmen upgrade to Pikeman

Pikeman 4.5.2
Swordsmen 3.3.2

 

[Neomega]

swordsmen upgrade to medeival infantry IIRC.
EDIT: This thread is almost a year old.... SOLO: "where did you find that old fossil?"

 

[hetairoi22]

I have thought up an offensive infantry line which looks as follows:

I use utahjazz's european swordsman as a medieval men-at-arms, and that in turn upgrades to the halberdier (AoK), which upgrades to the fusilier (available with military tradition), the line ending with the offensive and defensive lines merging (defensive line: spearman-> pikeman-> arquebusier-> musketman), and the musketman and fusilier upgrading to the national guard unit (smoking mirror's napoleonic rifleman). The guard then upgrades to the rifleman, infantry and modern infantry).

 

[Yoda Power]

Ultraworld- no offence, but why do you dig a over a year old thread up from the dead, when it no longer has any point since PTW came out?

 

[Padma]

I won't quibble too much about this thread revival - not everybody has bought PTW (shame on them! ), so they still have this "problem".

 

[Wolfhart]

Is there possibly some sort of reward for achieving certain numbers of postings? That could explain why so many old threads have been resurrected lately...

 

[Padma]

The only "reward" is at 300 posts, when you can choose to use a custom avatar instead of the standard Civ ones. Ultraworld passed that a week or so ago.

I'm sure it has more to do with finding a thread that interests you, and replying to it.

Besides, if we mods see someone "spamming" their way to 300, we "take corrective action".

 

[Wolfhart]

Well, I wasn't thinking specifically of Mr Ultraworld, since he's proven himself able to start a lot of threads on his own...

But I thought I've seen a pattern of behaviour here lately... not that I must be right, what I must learn is to give people the benefit of a doubt. Of course most are guided by interest when they dig up and reanimate deceased threads...

"Corrective action"... ouch, that's got to hurt! Well, with my current rate of posting I should reach 300 posts in the year 2010 so I won't ever find out what those actions would be...

 

[Padma]

Well, I haven't noticed it as being significantly more than usual here. It usually only gets heavy when someone is either:

a) very new here, and gets excited reading everything and wants to respond to it all,

or

b) someone trying to spam there way to 300 posts.

In the latter case, they usually find it takes a lot longer to get there than they planned.


And I think that's enough of a threadjack, here. If you want to know more, PM me, or open a thread in Site Feedback.

 

[GEChallenger]

I actually don't like how the Medieval Infantry looks. As far as I know (and I could be wrong) maces weren't commonly used by standard heavy infantry in medieval armies.

I'm planning on making (or at least trying to make) a cut 'n paste Heavy Infantry at some point. It should look something like below. Of course, this might not be postable since it uses a PTW unit as its base.

I'd still like to see a more lightly armored Broad Swordsman, though-- no shield, full clothed, chain mail. This would be between the Swordsman and Heavy Infantry.

 

[Louis XXIV]

I definatly like that unit better, and no you probably can't put it up for download (DON'T give it to me because I don't have PTW)

It might be possible to prove the person has the game, so this is still possible.

BTW, I would add a Musket Infantry (4.5.1 70 cost, saltpeter, available with Metallurgy) as well

I also would make Swords, Musketmen, Med. Inf, Longbows, and Pikes upgrade to this unit (Guerillas should be a unit on its own and upgrade to Infantry, so it isn't waisted)

 

[GEChallenger]

I agree, Musket Infantry is needed in the normal game. I've got a main Infantry line (high defense, little to mediocre offense) that goes Spearman => Bronze Spearman => Long Spearman => Man-at-Arms => Pikeman => Musketman => Musket Infantry => Line Infantry => Rifleman => Breech Loading Rifleman => Trench Infantry => Infantry => Assault Infantry => Light Infantry. The Support Infantry line (defensive bombard) goes Javelineer => Archer => Composite Bowman => Crossbowman => Arquebusier and merges into Musketman. The Heavy Infantry line (slow, high offense, mediocre defense) goes Warrior => Axeman => Bronze Swordsman => Swordsman => Broad Swordsman => Heavy Infantry => Light Swordsman, where it merges into Musket Infantry.