Crusader unit

[silvio82]

Should be in the game the crusader that is a special unit for the civs that have christian religion.

 

[General_Craig]

Its a nice idea, but I think Firaxis have gone down the road of complete neutrality where it comes to religions, so having a unique unit for a particular religion could be seen as favouring it over other religions.

That said, there could be a chance of having a Crusader unit if a Crusades based scenario was made.

 

[silvio82]

Muslims could have terrorists as special units too, crusader and terrorists could replace another unit so dont favourite anyone.

 

[Ajidica]

that is very culturaly incensitive. less than 5% of all muslims are terrorist, and there are also christian terrorist. and in fact, their holy book (Quo'ran spelling?)looks down at the killing of innocents and destruction of property.

 

[silvio82]

I think that could be two wonders called Al-Qaeda base and Templars holy order that produce terrorists and crusaders that are strong units. Terrorists that can join in enemy cities for destroy buldings without be attacked and are militar units too.

 

[Gooblah]

Dude, stop being so...I dunno...inflammatory? The terrorist idea, is not a good one, though i have expressed at the max it could be a barb UU. Also, the idea of religious UUs would result in Firaxis being sued by some religious organization or the ACLU (again, not meaning anything bad by this) for infringing on religious equality and such.

 

[Diamondeye]

Firaxis is not going to make any differences between religions, and not anything the likes of connecting terrorists with Islam - you're either very hostile against the religion or very unknowing and naive ("I saw an islamic terrorist in TV, this means Islamists are terrorists" - this is NOT true).

My idea of a crusader unit is actually a promotion that would enable a unit to spread your state religion to cities you have conquered (while they are in rebellion before actually joining you). This promotion could either be chosen by XP or automatically given units trained in a city with a cathedral building (the building that requires X temples of that religion, cathedral is the christian version, mosque the Islamistic and so on).

What do you think?

 

[Gooblah]

Ooh...I like the crusader idea. But if there are other religions in the city, make a small unhappiness penalty for forced conversion or something like that. I dunno.

 

[GuitarHero]

The designers are too afraid to go down the corridor of the Crusader unit again. But, I really like the idea of a UU for Religions. It can only be built in cities with that Religion present. It would get me more eager to spread Religions through my Empire. And the Shrine could generate that Unit once every 10 Turns. Just like old times........