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Dive Bomber
It's hard to tell at this zoom, but I think it's a SBD Dauntless
Confirmation that Bridges (era-specific ones, no less) are buildings, not improvements
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Dive Bomber
It's hard to tell at this zoom, but I think it's a SBD Dauntless
Confirmation that Bridges (era-specific ones, no less) are buildings, not improvements
TheGhostEnthusiast
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I was under the impression that that’s the “tile improvement” for tiles that aren’t normally built on. Could’ve sworn I saw a worked natural wonder that had that label on it at some point around the Exploration stream.
Based on the unit "profile picture" I had thought that it might be a P-47, but I think you're right it's modeled after the Dauntless. And of course the fighter is the P-51.
My guess is that either that screenshot is just using placeholder graphics, or else it's from an earlier build in which the Marine was a generic unit. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
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The wing shape doesn't match the P-47's beautiful semi-elliptical wings, and it also has a stretched two or three place cockpit. If it's not the Dauntless, then perhaps a less iconic naval dive bomber like the Devestator or Vindicator.
I think it's most likely meant to be the Dauntless, based on the beefy nose and wing and the narrow triangular tail.
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Seems to be a City Park
The building in the lower right corner with the vaulted roof is a Stock Exchange
Yep.
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Here's a neat detail. This artillery piece is being towed by a WW1 era Holt (or similar brand) tractor as part of the Army Commander's stack.
Yeah, the Field Cannon is being towed by horses, too. The unit artists have been doing some serious work.
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Last one is the Military Academy.
Re: Bridges
Every era has one in the tech tree, that's why it's "Ancient Bridge". Seems like they must be upgraded just like walls.
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Here are those gun elephants. They are in the Siamese civ.
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O Thankyou. Now two bombers are divided into two groups. Tactical and Strategic.
This may have something to do with carriers. Tactical bomber (like Mitsubishi Ki-30 'Nagoya' which is conveniently Siamese and also Japanese variants) is light enough to ride Aircraft Carriers, while Strategic Bombers have longer operational rage but can't ride CVs.
My guess is wrong. at first I think this one should be bushplane that later evolves into choppers. and bushplanes require no airfields to work.
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This appears to be the Mughal UU. I saw the icon in a city at first and expected this to be a cavalry unit. But it's clearly not.
It's called a Sepoy
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I should think that Bridges would be a building in the same way a Wall is. Like something you could build that wouldn’t take up one of your two building slots. Seems unthinkable that it would kneecap your district in such a significant way for such a relatively minor benefit.
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It's kind of weird. If you want to expand on the other side of a river, you could easily build a Fishing Quay or a Bath to hit the other side. So, the Bridge mostly just seems like flavor. And it's not like you're obliged to place another building in the district with it. Just leave the other slot empty. A warehouse building could complete it though without interfering with any kind of Adjacency Bonus stacking.
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The penalty for razing is hardcore. Any opponent in any future war will have 1 free war support for every city you razed.
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I expect that penalty could be mitigated by specific policies/ideologies/leader abilities/etc. punishing by default but able to be played around. Maybe.
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There's good reason why Siamese use Field Cannons that way. There ain't enough flatlands here until Isaan region is annexed. And before 80s-90s, highways to support wheeled vehicles of any kind did not really exists, or not really good.
My guess that it will be Ranged class. and with better sight range by 1 (Better view from atop of a howdah).
Quite an acceptable name though. I'd even expect something like 'Ratchawanlop' which it is a Royal Guard. and I even saw a photograph of Two Guard Units with a field cannon mounted on the same 'foreign' carriage. one of the two was 'Catholic Vietnamese Legion Guard'. (one of the two Foreign guardsmen, the other was similiar Viet volunteers but a Buddhist unit. Both of which were Guards Artillery. Both of which recruited from refugees (Since the Siamese Kingdom's threat was two whitemen empires-British Empire and French Empire, and enemies of previous generation has to unite as 'Free People'). Yet. bad road prevents the use of field carriage on the actual fiend until much later. Instead Siamese specifications of field artillery were all of Mountain types. which can be mounted on elehant and shoot from there, or at least elephants being just a pack animal.
Also Siam bought 7.5 cm Krupp mountain gun (M1903 Mountain variants) . it has recoil mechanism. one of these later became Royal Funeral Caisson. and I've saw ones myself several years ago.
Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903 - Wikipedia
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I'm not sure we should even call it a 4X game anymore at this point with how strongly the game really wants you to know that doing all 4Xs makes you a bad person, lol.
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