categorize military units for civ3

[edil]

units for civ3 for an amateur like me are so many.
someone has a good way to categorize military units civfanatics offers?

perhaps, by period, tribe or nation

I can not classify them as I have copies of double or I forget any of them?

someone has a good method?

thank ciao !

 

[Fiddlin Nero]

There are a couple of pdf files under CIV3 and REFERENCE of the Main Menu. I have drawings for PTW showing upgrade pathes and strategic resource requirements.

 

[edil]

where?

 

[Fiddlin Nero]

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/reference

 

[nyarmondt]

In short, there's 4 categories:
Defensive, Offensive, Harassment and Support

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Every "*" indicates a change of Era.

The defensives are: Spearmen,* Pikemen, Musketeers, * Riflemen, Infantry, * Mech Inf.
The offensives are: Archers, Swordsmen, * Med. Infantry, Longbowmen, *Guerilla, Marines
Harassment: Horsemen,* Knights, Cavalry, * Tanks, * Modern Armour. Also includes every marine vessel with an attack value.
Support: Worker, Catapult, * Trebuchet, Cannon, * Artillery, Fighter, Bomber, * Jet Fighter, Stealth Fighter, Stealth Bomber, Cruise missile, Tactical Nuke, Icbm, Radar Artillery. Also includes every naval unit with either Bombard capacity or Transport capacity.

The Warrior can be either defensive, offensive or harassment, but certainly not the preferred unit for it.

For the UU's, just check whatever unit it replaces and put in the corresponding category. Some UU's gain an extra movepoint, placing them from their original category into the Harassment category (for example: Jaguar Warrior, Impi, Gallic Swordsmen).

The Ancient Cavalry (produced by Statue of Zeus) is a Harassment unit, while the Crusader (Knights Templar) is an offensive unit.

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Defensive units are used to protect your cities, points of interest and your invading forces.

Offensive units are to be used solely for kicking your enemies bottom... I mean, rightfully annexing cities that are meant to be yours in the first place

Harrasment units have different uses, and they're good at all of it. You can use them offensively, you can use them to hunt down stray enemy units, you can use them for scouting or for pillaging your enemy's lands. The only thing they're not very good at, is defense. Naval harassment units can only be used for killing enemy vessels.

Support units are only used to help your invading forces, by either maiming (and occasionally killing) your enemy's garrisoned units, or by transporting much needed troops into enemy territory. While the worker is no true military unit, the roads he can build aid you in cutting down the time you need for reaching your goal. This certainly is the case for wheeled units, whom are restricted in there movement to certain terrains unless their is a road they can use.

While I guess you probably knew the uses for the different categories, I had to include it for the sake of completness.

I hope this helps you in your conquest to victory

 

[Fiddlin Nero]

I would go with Offensive/Defensive Land Units, good ones are on an upgrade path

The rest are either useful or not, Transports and a protecting unit are useful for convoy routes, Paratroopers and Explorers have very limited usefulness.

 

[edil]

Perhaps, I misspelled my thoughts.
-Problem
After years of CIV3, I several folders full of military units and no
my question is if anyone has a good method for tracking the unit, quickly

I have created folders for part of the world, such as east europe (athens), western Europe (Rome), North America, Latin America, Eurasia (Mesopotamia) east afrcia north, south africa and oceania / polynesia.
Then, I created folders and sub folders for the nation by historical period.

Now I will divide even if units or other defense or attack.

be nice and helpful if each unit there was a small check-list:
area of ​​the world
nation (or nations, whether or airfight tank or other)
period
defense or attack, or other units

i hope if is clear!

 

[Fiddlin Nero]

Still not sure what you are looking for. The F3 Screen shows all of your units by type and mousing over one will show its location on the small map. It gets a bit unwieldy when you have a lot of units of a single type.

 

[CommandoBob]

Perhaps, I misspelled my thoughts.
-Problem
After years of CIV3, I several folders full of military units and no
my question is if anyone has a good method for tracking the unit, quickly

I have created folders for part of the world, such as east europe (athens), western Europe (Rome), North America, Latin America, Eurasia (Mesopotamia) east afrcia north, south africa and oceania / polynesia.
Then, I created folders and sub folders for the nation by historical period.

Now I will divide even if units or other defense or attack.

be nice and helpful if each unit there was a small check-list:
area of ​​the world
nation (or nations, whether or airfight tank or other)
period
defense or attack, or other units

i hope if is clear!

I think I understand. You have a lot of units and you cannot remember the details on them like you once could. And they get lost/misplaced/forgotten.

Welcome to old age!

Seriously, however, I think that you either need a cusotmized spreadsheet or database to help you. It will be a tool and help you to find things but it will only be as good as the data you put into it.

There are freeware programs that can organize pictures at Download.com under Digital Photo Software, but I'm not sure if they will do what you want.

 

[edil]

I think I understand. You have a lot of units and you cannot remember the details on them like you once could. And they get lost/misplaced/forgotten.

Welcome to old age!

Seriously, however, I think that you either need a cusotmized spreadsheet or database to help you. It will be a tool and help you to find things but it will only be as good as the data you put into it.

There are freeware programs that can organize pictures at Download.com under Digital Photo Software, but I'm not sure if they will do what you want.

yes is so

 

[RickFGS]

in the "Harassment" category i´d also include Scouts and Explorer´s, because they can pillage improvements...in the "support" category, you can include settlers as cultural land grabber, to get your two moves units in attack range of nearby enemy city, welcme to blitzkrieg in ancient age!

Just wanted to give my two cents

 

[Fiddlin Nero]

Is this categorizing for user created units?

In any case, I use a CAD program to combine bitmaps and text for my organizations. You could probably do it in any word processing program. Paint doesn't work well outside of bitmaps, but Photoshop probably has the flexibility. There are also art programs like Corel Draw that focus more on point defined objects but will handle bitmaps.