Mustakrakish
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When will they add the remaining leader animations on the official site already? We already seen most if not all of them in video previews and such, so why not?
Actually, the manual kind of does:
"There are five main types of air units in Civilization V: helicopter gunships, missiles, fighters, bombers, and anti-air ground units". This may mean that, although technically a ground unit, it is for some reason classed as an air one. Now, why would they do so?
May be only air units can engage air units?![]()
This is how much it cost to the common warrior to become a legion :
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Yes, but the Legion is the only option here. If the upgrade would require Iron, it would provide options to upgrade to either Legion or Spearman, I assume. And there are no optional upgrades as they were in Civ 4.
Warrior -> Swordsman -> Longswordsman -> musketman?/Riflemen
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As you can see it will be substantially useful to have warriors in your early armies, and not just skip them for the superior spearman, because the spearmen can't become swordsmen unlike warriors.
Or...maybe they decided to get rid of dead end units. In a system where units stick around for a long time, this would seem to be the logical thing to do, no?
No. Warriors are upgraded to spearman - we know it from several playtesters.
Only Roman could upgrade warriors to legion. I assume that's because it doesn't require iron.
I've not seen any such info, and i keep myself pretty much up-to-date. This is the first instance we've seen of a unit being upgraded (or nearly upgraded, is that button clicked, we don't know for sure.)
And according to well-of-souls its been confirmed that legions do require iron.
I found it extremely strange to upgrade resourceless unit to the one required resource (at least if there are other branches). If you have less iron than number of your warriours, you'll have them unupgraded till riflemen! Sounds very unlikely.
I read twice about warriors being upgraded to spearman by goody huts.
I don't know why you guys are assuming that warriors can't upgrade to both spearmen, and swordsmen.
I don't know why you guys are assuming that warriors can't upgrade to both spearmen, and swordsmen.
Doesn't sound very unlikely at all, in fact i'd be suprised if you could upgrade a unit into one that required a resource without having adequate resources available. That's the entire point of limited resources, you'll need resources to make these elite tech units, so you may well have left over warriors.
Your talking about very old previews there, and besides the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, you can have upgrade paths for units that you actually upgrade and have an additional bonus such as a free warrior to spearman change for walking on ancient ruins.
With upgrading units, an army which is suddenly requiring lots of iron, when you had none in the first place doesn't make any sort of sense.
No, I was saying quite opposite. The situation where resourceless unit is upgraded to resourceful one should be exceptional in the game. I could imagine Frigate - Destroyer upgrade, because Frigate is the last resourceless ship at all. But jumping back and forth with infantry units sound like bad game design for me.
And it seems very unlikely what they could do this to your units. Goody huts are always good now and I don't consider unexpected upgrade path as always good thing.