Many people still (me included) are sometimes frustrated because the Civpedia lists just some units as "gunpowder" units, but actually for city defense value purpose all the units which require "gunpowder" tech as a prerequisite no matter exactly where in the tech chain are treated as "gunpowder".
Machine gun question
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Many people still (me included) are sometimes frustrated because the Civpedia lists just some units as "gunpowder" units, but actually for city defense value purpose all the units which require "gunpowder" tech as a prerequisite no matter exactly where in the tech chain are treated as "gunpowder".
Pisskop
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??? So something like cannon shouldnt get treated as a gunpowder unit vs walls?
Izuul
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Why wouldn't they? I think you misread something.
It is a "gunpowder" unit for the walls/castle defense bonuses purpose but it is not a "gunpowder" unit for the bonuses/penalties. For example a machine gun will not get +50% vs a cannon, but at the same time will not get a defense boost from a walls/castles too.
Edit: Or said in another way - the machine gun will lose the walls/castle defense bonus vs a cannon, because the cannon is a gunpowder unit. But the same machine gun will not get the +50% vs the gunpowder units because the cannon is not a "gunpowder" gunpowder unit
I wish they used different words...
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