need ideas as to what i should use for UUs for the Netherlands and Carthage

[the100thballoon]

what should i use as a UU for the Netherlands? i am making the swiss guard available to all civs with the resource "Swiss".

also,

what should i use as a UU for Carthage? i am making the Numidian mercenary available to all civs with the resource "Numidia".

all help is appreciated.
thnx
(unless people decide to ignore me like all my other recent posts :shakehead :thumbdown )

 

[Nwoll]

Dom Pedro made a Carthaginian war elephant you could use for Carthage.

 

[GRM7584]

Netherlands:
Ship-of-the-Line
Reasoning: "Dutch Golden Age" occupies the same timeline as the first Anglo-Dutch War, during which Line of Battle tactics first become popular; they were pioneered by English admirals, but Michiel de Ruyter used them perhaps more famously.

Carthage:
Sacred Band (Hoplite-style guard infantry)
Reasoning: The Sacred Band was something of an elite guard force for the city of Carthage itself.
Uncreative Alternative: Armored Elephants.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Numidian Cavalry was, without question, the coolest and most unique of Hannibal's Army (Numidian Mercenaries should actually be Libyan Mercenaries, but Firaxis didn't want something that sounded like a terrorist group). The only downside is the unit doesn't have a Javelin attack like it is supposed to (and Dom Pedro disapeared before he could fix it).

Carthage was most powerful when it relied almost exclusively on mercenaries and troops levied from its territories (not the city itself). The Sacred Band of Carthage was not the one of Thebes. Although it did have some success against Syracuse, it was gone by the time they fought Rome.

War Elephants are almost universally recognized as Carthaginian, although I don't think they were the most effective unit Carthage had at any time.

 

[GRM7584]

I was going off this, as I am wont to do. Maybe you should change it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Carthage

 

[the100thballoon]

thnx! i used Colonel Kraken's Ship-of-the-Line unit and DPII's Carthaginian War Elephant.

 

[Louis XXIV]

I was going off this, as I am wont to do. Maybe you should change it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Carthage

I might have been wrong, but I'm basing my information on this site

http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/army-carthage.htm

We read much of the Sacred Legion in the Sicilian wars. It was composed of young nobles, who wore dazzling white shields and breast-plates which were works of art; who even in the camp never drank except from goblets of silver and of gold. But this corps had apparently become extinct, and the Carthaginians only officered their troops, who they looked upon as ammunition, and to whom their orders were delivered through interpreters. The various regiments of the Carthaginian army had therefore nothing in common with one another or with those by whom they were led. They rushed to battle in confusion, "with sounds, discordant as their various tribes," and with no higher feeling than the hope of plunder or the excitement which the act of fighting arouses in the brave soldier.

 

[Kyriakos]

:shakehead
that is the funniest smiley i have ever seen...

 

[the100thballoon]

:shakehead
that is the funniest smiley i have ever seen...

ALL of those simleys combined add up to what i feel like when i start like 5 threads and get MAYBE one response on ONE thread.