Hmm?

[PaulT]

How can your civilization produce trade before it's discovered trade?

How can the warrior have a studded shield and a spear before bronze/iron working?

These and other things keep me up at night.

 

[Mercator]

The warrior could be using flint.

 

[PaulT]

That's a great point.

But look at the shield:

It's definitely a studded buckler, well beyond the means of a primitive civilization in the period that I assume civ2 starts at.

 

[starlifter]

How can your civilization produce trade before it's discovered trade?

In Civ 2, you can get some benefits of trade if a civ come to you... but until you discover how to trade, you cannot create the valuable trade caravans full goods to trade at good prices with the markets you learn about and profit from.

The trade produced as a result of your (primitive) society is as has always been in culture... people willing to barter for things you have, swap, etc. within your own community (village, area, region around your settlement). With roads or rivers, more can do it more efficiently.

 

[PaulT]

Bartering and swapping, that makes sense. Though, without a code of laws, it would be exceedingly difficult to do such things efficiently, or at all?

Any thoughts on the shield? Maybe just a lazy graphics artist?

 

[MajorGeneral2]

Bartering and swapping, that makes sense. Though, without a code of laws, it would be exceedingly difficult to do such things efficiently, or at all?

There has always been religion, tribal laws, and other such things to keep order even before laws were officially codified by the government.

Any thoughts on the shield? Maybe just a lazy graphics artist?

Maybe just someone thinking about this too much?

 

[PaulT]

Maybe just someone thinking about this too much?

After spending all of last night learning ICS, I have developed an intense fascination with the warrior sprite.

 

[starlifter]

With your attention to detail, you will make a good PD president, too.

 

[ElephantU]

Warriors are great - no other unit takes just 10 shields. I sometimes delay discovering Gunpowder (and I hate getting Feudalism early) just to prolong the Warrior for first-row rush-buying. As to the "studs", they are grey - could they be sharped pieces of bone like Aborigines would wear in necklaces and attach to clubs?

 

[CurtSibling]

That large warrior image would make any CIV2 veteran go nostalgic.