Better way to assign UU

[stormbind]

The problem

Current UU argument comes from random maps: English Man-o-War is no use if you're land-locked, the Indian War Elephant is illogical if you don't have elephants/ivory, and I'm sure you can think of many more dubious scenarios..

The solution..

Any suggestions? I think UU should be associated with heroes, but I'm not sure how it should work. Here's an idea though:

If your elite unit wins combat and you get a hero... Then an option should be to trade the hero to unlock the UU associated with his former unit type. For example: Elite Frigate -> Hero -> Man-O-War.

And in Civ3, why can't naval units make heroes like Horatio Nelson? The British do seem to get a raw deal..

Benefits

You are atleast guaranteed that the UU is something you can build & use

 

[Scuffer]

Any suggestions? I think UU should be associated with heroes, but I'm not sure how it should work. Here's an idea though:

If your elite unit wins combat and you get a hero... Then an option should be to trade the hero to unlock the UU associated with his former unit type. For example: Elite Frigate -> Hero -> Man-O-War.

Hmmmm. If the UU is truly to be unique, only 1 can build it anyway. So this doesn't get away from the problem of being landlocked and having the Man O War as a your UU. I mean if you can'r build a frigate, you are never going to get the UU.
Unless you have UU as more like wonders that all civs can starts building, but only those who get there first get to keep?

 

[stormbind]

I think having the UU linked to civs is illogical, highlighted clearly by the Indian War Elephants from a northern tundra

Having UU linked to civilisation-name is ill-suited to random maps.

 

[Scuffer]

Yeah, it is daft, but how will you make them unique otherwise? Unless you only start civs in places where they could make them realistically. That might work.

 

[Theoden]

The game could assign UU's at the start of the game based on the terrain. For instance someone near the coast could get berserkers, someone with a lot of mountains nearby would get keshiks and so on.

Theoden

 

[sir_schwick]

I think the elite-UU system works under current Civ rules. Traits would then need to be balanced to not consider UU.

 

[plarq]

I think having the UU linked to civs is illogical, highlighted clearly by the Indian War Elephants from a northern tundra

The game Syberia has Mammoth in Siberia Islands.Mammoth is an old type of elephants.(But that's just a game about mysteries)