Cavalry upgrades that work//don't work when upgraded to tanks ?

[peddroelm]

Had my first attempt at domination game with the Songhai - turns out I don't know much about the Cavalry - Tank upgrade dynamics ....

Blitz -> Works and is almost a must before you can even call it a tank...

Mobility ->works with tanks
->works on anti-tank - helicopter gunship upgrade ?

March -> does it work with Tanks ? Can a tank get both march and repair?

Charge -> works with tanks ? (pepper with fighters mop up with a blitz tank ? )

Siege (from Chariot Archer) -> Works all the way to tanks ? {would be great for Mandekalu and later tanks}


Might be missing some ...

 

[GenjiKhan]

Since I've adopted the tactic to upgrade Chariot archer to mandekalu cavalry,which seems to be your strategy,I can answer some of these questions:

2 - it might work on anti tank,since they almost share the same promotion grade;

3 - probably March also works on tanks and using march and repair promotion would be a redundancy case(I've never tried this and I might be wrong about it);

4 - Charge works on tanks,since this promotion is also avaliable to them;

5 - the only thing that Siege does on tanks is cancel the attack penalty to cities . Personally,I'd not recommend taking Siege from Chariot Archer,since Drill/Barrage promotion would be useless on mounted/armored units and you'd waste 2 promotion levels with this strategy .

 

[peddroelm]

....the only thing that Siege does on tanks is cancel the attack penalty to cities ...

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That's no little thing on a 50 strength unit that has 6 moves and probably Blitz promoted [I've fresh in my mind from the last game the experience of 2-3 German Panzers zipping out of nowhere and capturing my cities ... And they didn't have Siege promotion ...]...

But it would also shine on the Mandekalu cav(Songhai) before tanks ... Full Honor tree completion at some point (early) for bonus experience highly beneficial ...

 

[vexing]

everything works, including mobility - tanks are normally 5 movement. the only time things stop working is when mixing melee and ranged units (eg accuracy/barrage don't work).
repair and march do the same thing, getting both provides no benefit.

 

[peddroelm]

everything works, including mobility - tanks are normally 5 movement. the only time things stop working is when mixing melee and ranged units (eg accuracy/barrage don't work).
repair and march do the same thing, getting both provides no benefit.

checked a savefile I had mobility on all my six cavalry to be tanks -> when I saw all of them with six moves I assumed I had one of them without mobility and for the ones that had it -> it did nothing Will try to edit the OP

 

[Rpger29]

Thank you guys for the clarification on this. I'm hoping to play a game as Askia soon, and this was a serious question for me. Unit promotions are still the biggest hole in my game. Next game sounds fun now