Fleet and Armada Tweaks

[Sostratus]

One very slick way that Firaxis has helped alleviate end game carpets of doom is through the Armies system. While I think it's a brilliant addition to the Civ universe, there's two things that really bug me:

1. A naval unit, fleet, or armada is always displayed as one boat. Likewise with their terrestrial counterparts.

My "simple" suggestion:

When combined into a fleet, the model should be two boats. An Armada would display three. It would be very obvious visually that there's some serious naval hardware floating your way.

(For land units, I would apply this same concept to apply to the tank, modern armor, and mechanized infantry.)

The downside, of course, is that we would need a whole bunch of new combat animations created for the melee units. Especially the boats; land units have animations for killing 1-4 infantry soldiers, but boats only ever attack one boat. Ranged units just sort of blast their targets anyways, so this isn't as big a deal.

2. Why do carrier fleets not have increased air unit capacity? A carrier fleet should hold 3 or 4 air units, while an armada should hold 4 or 6. (Depends on balance.) I just cannot understand why I should sink hammers into just getting more defense and not denser air unit capacity! It feels like an oversight.

 

[Uberfrog]

Yeah there really is no good reason why these features weren't in from the start.

For a game that is determined to show things on the map, they dropped the ball when it came to Corps/Fleets/etc.

 

[criZp]

Approving.

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

Completely agree

 

[warpyg]

Totally agree, let's bump it. Maybe the Dev's finally decide to do it with GS expansion. These small details make the game a lot better IMHO

 

[RealAntithesis]

That's because armies and armadas are just effectively single units - they behave just like single units except they are stronger, more expensive and have two or three star icons. They were a half-assed 'solution' to 1upt that, to me, wasn't satisfying at all. They need proper armies and fleets made up of their constituent parts.

Re: the graphics, the R. E. D mod added more unit graphics to give the impression that a unit wasn't just made up of a single thing, so it's not that far fetched.