conquistadores How and why.

[Ani]

At first look this unit looked like a very lousy unit to get. (understatement)

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Costly
lousy offence and defence
to late in the game to do normal scouting.
hard to get a Golden age by winning a battle.

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Very good movement in enemy teritory
Usefull for pillaging.
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I have found it usefull when you want to disable a opponents infrastructure. This could be used bouth as a first strike, and as a defensive strike when you get attacked.

How to use it.
Make 5- to 10 units and place them as border guards against your enemies. Mountains is good places for the view and the def. bonus. You can move 3-5 zones into your opponents teritory and still pillage that (rail)road/luxury/rescours.

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Any other sugestions for usage? Should we avoid playing spain as this unit seem to be low strength compared to the opponents special units?

 

[Shabbaman]

The spanish are commercial and religious, these are powerful traits by itself. Since they don't have an ancient UU, there probably won't be a too early golden age. As for conquistadores, please read this article: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18252

There's no reason to avoid the Spanish, but there might be reasons to play another civ.

 

[Aggie]

@Shabbaman: but the conquistador is a military unit and therefore can't do all the things an explorer can.

That's assuming that and explorer can stay in the AI's territory without a ROP (only getting a warning but never the order to remove the forces or declare war...).

Funny that the conquistador trigger so many questions. We had another thread just a couple of days ago about this.