Hi !
I got bit desappointed by Civ V vanilla when it came out, but I'm actually retrying it with BNW and it's a totally better experience.
I'm now on the late stage of a game on Prince with the English, huge map, 22 civs, spreading my army, my tourism, leading the science and securing the United Nations with my city states
I like the one unit per tile system, however, as my army is growing, it's becoming pretty hard to store all my units on the map during peace time. Actually they are forming lines on the roads, ordered roughly with the infantery closer to the borders and the artillery further.
This is bad for two reasons.
First it's a pain to move them efficiently. I have to let some unoccupied tiles every 3 or 4 tiles so that further units can stay on roads when they make stops while they reach the frontline.
Second, it's not realistic. Except in occupied countries, you don't see soldiers everywhere on roads where you travel, especially when their ideology is Freedom...
Now this is what I suggest. It should be possible to store your land units in your cities' barracks.
They would not be garrisoned, thus they would not attack nor defend the city while stored. Their maintenance cost would not be lower like for the garrisoned units. There would be no limit of units that can be stored in a single barrack. And finally if a city is taken with units stored in it, they would be destroyed.
They could be selected with the same interface used for the aircrafts: a small box at the top of the city name with numbers in it -the number of units available in the city. When selecting a unit it would appear on the city tile, and then you would be asked either to garrison it if possible, or to move it away or to re-store it.
Same could be done for ships and harbors, although less critical.
I got bit desappointed by Civ V vanilla when it came out, but I'm actually retrying it with BNW and it's a totally better experience.
I'm now on the late stage of a game on Prince with the English, huge map, 22 civs, spreading my army, my tourism, leading the science and securing the United Nations with my city states
I like the one unit per tile system, however, as my army is growing, it's becoming pretty hard to store all my units on the map during peace time. Actually they are forming lines on the roads, ordered roughly with the infantery closer to the borders and the artillery further.
This is bad for two reasons.
First it's a pain to move them efficiently. I have to let some unoccupied tiles every 3 or 4 tiles so that further units can stay on roads when they make stops while they reach the frontline.
Second, it's not realistic. Except in occupied countries, you don't see soldiers everywhere on roads where you travel, especially when their ideology is Freedom...
Now this is what I suggest. It should be possible to store your land units in your cities' barracks.
They would not be garrisoned, thus they would not attack nor defend the city while stored. Their maintenance cost would not be lower like for the garrisoned units. There would be no limit of units that can be stored in a single barrack. And finally if a city is taken with units stored in it, they would be destroyed.
They could be selected with the same interface used for the aircrafts: a small box at the top of the city name with numbers in it -the number of units available in the city. When selecting a unit it would appear on the city tile, and then you would be asked either to garrison it if possible, or to move it away or to re-store it.
Same could be done for ships and harbors, although less critical.
