Well actually the "future" of warfare will most likely be robots, anything automated. Whether that be "cyborgs" or "androids" or radio controlled tanks, this is current science and is implemented into the military and it will only advance.
Now while Mechs are awesome, walking things aren't massive practical, they are in some things such as scalling a mountain, but then again a flying tank would be even better, with better propulsion systems we may well have "hover tanks" which while capable of sustained high speed flight can also hover stationary off the ground and move slowly through combat zones assiting other troops. This would be more realistic than Mechs. But!!! Realism is not needed in Civ, Mechs are cool and welcome. Bring on the future tech, I would like to see what Civ has done with it, I hope to see the late game stagnation removed with the addition of more futuristic and exiting technologies, Hover tanks perhaps that take up both the Land and Air slots of the 1UpT limit and can travel at full speed over land/mountains/sea without stopping. The future stages will really open out with advanced futuristic technologies really mixing up gameplay. If this kind of initiative hasn't been taken with Vanilla I hope somone very good at modding will create an amazing future mod, to really spice up games that enter the late stages, you want your game to end with a bang as it were if it goes on so long that you fear it could stagnate. I don't mean by everything blowing up but by gameplay being taken up a notch, meaning that the game does not stagnate but interest and fun increases if you still are playing at a certain point, having this intuative and awesome "end zone" to the technology increment of the game may even make it enjoyable to start a game in the future era if you want to "get right to it" as it were.
Now while Mechs are awesome, walking things aren't massive practical, they are in some things such as scalling a mountain, but then again a flying tank would be even better, with better propulsion systems we may well have "hover tanks" which while capable of sustained high speed flight can also hover stationary off the ground and move slowly through combat zones assiting other troops. This would be more realistic than Mechs. But!!! Realism is not needed in Civ, Mechs are cool and welcome. Bring on the future tech, I would like to see what Civ has done with it, I hope to see the late game stagnation removed with the addition of more futuristic and exiting technologies, Hover tanks perhaps that take up both the Land and Air slots of the 1UpT limit and can travel at full speed over land/mountains/sea without stopping. The future stages will really open out with advanced futuristic technologies really mixing up gameplay. If this kind of initiative hasn't been taken with Vanilla I hope somone very good at modding will create an amazing future mod, to really spice up games that enter the late stages, you want your game to end with a bang as it were if it goes on so long that you fear it could stagnate. I don't mean by everything blowing up but by gameplay being taken up a notch, meaning that the game does not stagnate but interest and fun increases if you still are playing at a certain point, having this intuative and awesome "end zone" to the technology increment of the game may even make it enjoyable to start a game in the future era if you want to "get right to it" as it were.