I knew it could only happen after an age ended, but he is currently in the Antiquity Age.Maybe you can choose it at the beginning?PotatoMcWhiskey is livestreaming on YouTube. I noticed that the Greek capital is Thera instead of Athenai. Does that mean we can change the capital of a civilization at will during an age?
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Somebody mentioned in the AI thread that he lost his capital Athenai earlier in the stream, and after reconquering it stayed as a town without the capital status. That’s probably why.PotatoMcWhiskey is livestreaming on YouTube. I noticed that the Greek capital is Thera instead of Athenai. Does that mean we can change the capital of a civilization at will during an age?
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Makes sense…I Wonder if he made it a city if it would regain Capital status or it has lost it for the rest of the Age.
You can see in The Fanatical's screenshot that he has promoted it to a city.
Missed that…well nice to know you can lose you capital and still be strong enough to get it back.
I don't know why 'Siege' unit gets smaller gun? and called it 'Assault Gun' rather than 'Self Propelled Artillery'?
I think it is a design decision. Real assault guns are not easily distinguishable from tanks. So Firaxis decided to base the appearance of of mobile artillery instead. They probably should have just called it that.
Yeah, IRL Assault Guns were really just the Poor Man's Tank. On the other hand, every 'assault gun' they've shown so far is really self-propelled (indirect fire) artillery not designed to 'assault' anything except with long range firepower. Definitely could have used better nomenclature.
and there's even a Self Propelled Artillery with a bore diameter of 8 inches (smallest caliber of BB main guns, or the largest that cruisers carry).
And it is already there!
A trench fighter is a thing that never existed. The French came the closest to using effective ground attack aircraft in ww1 with the Breguet XIV. It was still pretty much a level bomber though.
Which is why they should have devised a proper 3rd age (1750-2050)
The German air force did have a number of specific 'ground attack' aircraft by the end of the war, organized into Schlachtstaffeln ("Battle Squadrons") Most common aircraft type was the Halberstadt CL.IV, a 2-seater which was used during the 1918 offensives to fly ahead of advancing German infantry and suppress enemy infantry and artillery with machinegun fire and light bombs. On the defensive, they were used to hit enemy concentration areas to disrupt attacking forces before they got started. A further development, the Halberstadt CLS.1, was to have a 35mm cannon mounted for ground attack, but only reached the prototype stage before the armistice.
Once I have the game in my hot little hands, (7 hours, 15 minutes to go!) I plan to go through all these 'special abilities' for Units, because they look suspiciously to me like Humankind's 'Unit Abilities' - one of the few completely positive ideas in that game.
So far. Helicopters didn't return.
Choppers should be a 4th age Ranged unit (fitting with the antitank role) with Amphibious
