Civ land military units equivalent to?

[Chief of Staff]

I'm aware that land military units (excluding settlers, workers, explorers, etc.) in Civ then and now represents a large unit. My question is, which level of military organization are they equivalent to? Do they represent a division, a regiment, or something?

For reference on military organization,
Wikipedia article on military organization

Thanks in advance.

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Chief of Staff
Fielding an infantry division as we speak

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I'm sure it varies between eras. Also, don't some of the units like anti-Tank guns operate as part of infantry units in real life and don't constitute independant units?

 

[Gre_Magus]

No way to say. Nothing in Civ really scales one-to-one with anything in real life. Even the population of cities doesn't really scale because in real life population was either flat or increasing arithmetically over most of history and then increased geometrically over the last hundred years, while in Civ it increases arithmetically over the whole time-frame of the game. Add in the variety of map sizes and all estimates go out the window.

That said, given the smaller number of units in Civ 5 compared to other games, I would imagine division or corps size to be more or less accurate, while for earlier games (Civ 3 or even 4) brigade or division. Of course this is only for the modern era. For ancient Rome, let's say, it would depend on the map type. If I was playing Rome in a regular, standard map game in Civ 4 I would probably max out at a few dozen units in the classical era, which would make one unit about one legion, but in the "Rise of Rome" scenario for Civ 3 I probably had over a hundred "legion" units, which would make them smaller than real legions...

 

[Stuie]

Battalions.

 

[Mercade]

I'm aware that land military units (excluding settlers, workers, explorers, etc.) in Civ then and now represents a large unit. My question is, which level of military organization are they equivalent to? Do they represent a division, a regiment, or something?

For reference on military organization,
Wikipedia article on military organization

Thanks in advance.

What do you think yourself?

 

[Seven05]

I don't think it really matters to be honest. Things in Civ are so abstract to begin with that trying to quantify them against a real world counterpart is... odd. How many barrels of oil does each oil resource represent? How many bushels of wheat (or apples now I guess) does a single point of food represent?

I find it best to simply not worry about it myself

 

[ahmedhadzi]

If it's 12 men on the hex, then it got to be a squad I guess.

 

[Chief of Staff]

Well, since Civ 4 came out, I've been using "rename unit" feature to rename all units for identification purpose such as "1st Infantry Division", "2nd Cavalry Division", and so on. In later games I dropped suffix "Division" in favor of "Regiment" as I felt it better reflect these units. You see where I am going. I know, it's a bit nitpicking but I can't help it.

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Chief of Staff
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (anyone who figure this out get a cookie)

 

[dra]

Initially, warrior represents just a band of men with clubs that could be assembled from one area. Increase of strentgh through ages symbolizes not only better firepower but also greater numbers as logistics, medicine and hygine improved. So I would estimate final units would be divisions.

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

Me personally, I see them as representing anything from a Division (for units like Cavalry or tanks) up to a Corps (for infantry). It kind of makes sense given that between 4 to 8 Civ5 units will probably constitute a "Front" on the actual map.

Aussie.