Golden Age
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So long as it's not against a barbarian. And, of course, you haven't already triggered it via wonders.
To expand on Turner's point, you can get a Golden Age through building wonders. Each wonder has Civ traits associated with it. If you build wonders that associated with both of your Civ traits, you get a golden Age -- at least I think this is how it works.
Breunor
Breunor
mastertyguy
I'm tired!
And, of course, if you kill an AI unit with a Keshik in 50 AD and another in 1500 AD (assuming first you get there, and also that you still have a keshik), you won't get a GA (just to make sure)
TimBentley
Deity
To be more precise, if you build a wonder and you then own wonders associated with both of your traits (either one for both, or two for each), you get a GA (assuming you having had it, obviously). That means if you capture appropriate wonders, you can build any wonder to get it.Breunor said:
automator
King
The unique unit GA is a pain, I think. I hate accidentally hitting golden age just because I used a samurai in 750BC. I much prefer a GA that launches me into productivity rather than just barely improving mediocrity.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
I agree!!! I often pick a civ that has a later UU, such as the Chinese Rider or the Ottoman Sipahi. I find it equally annoying to have a very late age UU, such as the American F-15 or German Panzer.automator said:
Just don't build your UU or at least do not use it on others civs, until you are ready for a GA.
gunkulator
Emperor
gmaharriet said:
The Rider and Samurai actually come at the same time, with Chivalry.
I actually find The Knight replacement UUs to be perfectly timed for me. By then I'm in Republic with a good number of cities that are close to max population. I either have or am close to building the FP. There is a lot of building to do in the early MA and a GA is just the ticket: aqueducts, markets, libraries, universities. Knights are a decent unit to have and in any case they upgrade cheaply to Cavalry. The GA makes Knights reasonable to build.
How come there are no Med Inf UUs? There are a zillion Knight UUs and even a UU for Pikemen and Longbows, but nothing for the lowly man at arms.
I would guess the reason is that MedInf did not exist in the game originally. Many of the newest civs are seafaring.
I would think infantry are too late to be a great UU, not to mention they are not attackers. Yeah you can bombard something down to make it easy to kill. I am just not sure what the value of a GA would be so late in the game.
Agree, infantry is too late for well times GAs but wouldn't it become a boring game if all UIs were knight replacements for example?
as for defensive vs attacking unit just take a look at C3C. Sumerian, Greek, Carthage, Dutch UIs are all defenders.
as for defensive vs attacking unit just take a look at C3C. Sumerian, Greek, Carthage, Dutch UIs are all defenders.
Yup, sometimes that is a real pain. At least they are not third age UU's. Nums can often be held off till you are ready. I dislike the Greeks because you have give up the UU or take the ealry GA.
kojimanard
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I have also wondered why there is no infantry UU. This may be wrong, but maybe they felt that no real world infantry merited the UU status. I think infantry is roughly WWI and I'm not sure that any particular infantry stood out in that war. (Feel free to correct me; I'm sure there are many who are better informed on military history than I am.)
I doubt that they thought that deeply about it. I suspect they were not history of WWII experts. A lot of it goes back to prior versions of civ.
vmxa said:
It's not so much the whether the timing would be good or bad, just that it seems an odd omission. Nearly every other type of unit in the game has a UU, and some have several, but there is none for infantry.
I could see infantry timing being really nice in a GOTM deity game where you're going for space or diplo. Tech rate on deity tends to bog down a little in the industrial age due to all the stupid AI-AI wars, and reaching 4-turn pace yourself is difficult due to corruption. (Unless it's C3C and you have managed to acquire enough garbage cities to make a zillion scientists.)
