Vanilla / Mac issue with upgrading Legionaries

[ainwood]

This issue affects vanilla Civ & Mac players only.

AlanH identified that the 'upgrade unit' flag is not set for legionaries in this game - although they can be upgraded.

The effect of this is that the unit does not have an upgrade unit button, nor can you use the 'u' shortcut or right-click and choose upgrade unit.

The only way you will be able to upgrade them is to do a mass upgrade. It is recommended that you move any elites that you don't want to upgrade out of the cities, then select a legionary and hit Shift+U to do a mass upgrade.

If this REALLY causes you problems (eg. you "have to" upgrade, and only have enough gold for a few units), then e-mail me your save to gotm@civfanatics.net and i'll fix the issue for you.

 

[civ_steve]

... If this REALLY causes you problems (eg. you "have to" upgrade, and only have enough gold for a few units), ...

Similarly, one can move out of cities with Barracks any Legions they don't wish to upgrade or don't have cash to upgrade, then do the Shift-U mass upgrade for the remainder. Assuming you have at least one road for each city so that the non-upgraded units can be moved back if desired.

 

[Caesar of Rome]

PTW1.27
GOTM 42. In my game, Warriors have to upgrade to Legionary before then upgrading to Med Inf. Never ever had to upgrade by stages in the past.

 

[AlanH]

That doesn't happen in vanilla. I upgraded one warrior straight to Persian Mercenary (the vanilla version of MDI) - that was what alerted me to the upgrade option for legions in the first place. I doubt if it makes any difference to the overall upgrade cost, but we'll have to look into it.

 

[Shigella]

I was able to upgrade directly from warriors to MIs with PTW 1.27. Could this have anything to do with whether or not you've triggered your Golden Age?

 

[ainwood]

I haven't changed anything in the PTW version - so if the upgrading is not working as you expect, then its a "feature", unfortunately.

 

[AlanH]

I think the GA clue might be on the money. Until your GA the upgrade path warrior->legion remains available, even if you have the techs/resources to upgrade legions. Since the dialog that pops up when you hit 'U' isn't equipped to offer you an option on which unit to upgrade to - legion or MDI - it has to offer you legion. So before your GA and after Feudalism you will have to do the double upgrade to turn warrior into MDI