What UU's keep their promotion when upgraded?

[anandus]

So I was wondering wat UU's have an ability or promotion which they keep after upgrade?

I believe the Inca's slinger's retreat-promotion stays after upgrade.

But what other UU's are upgradable while keeping their special promotion intact?
Is there a list somewhere maybe?

 

[Sonereal]

I'm pretty sure Minutemen do, along with the Ottoman Musket UU.

 

[Keejus]

I believe all of them do. The features that don't carry on aren't considered promotions in the first place. This includes building abilities (Legion, Conquistador), extra movement (Berserker, Keshik), strength bonuses (Musketeer and Ballista, among others) and ranged attacks (Keshik, Camel Archer).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything else is carried on, including the Amphibious promotion of Berserkers and the Conquistador's defensive embarkation. I don't know if a Sight bonus is an exception.

 

[civnoob13]

Keejus I think you're right - in my experience all UU 'upgrades' will be passed on for the rest of the game.

 

[binhthuy71]

If the UU automatically receives a real promotion that shows on its status bar then that promotion will be carried forward. Any powers and abilities that don't appear on the unit's status bar go away as soon as you promote the unit to another unit type.

 

[fmlizard2]

A few carryovers I know of:

Immortal (spearman, double heal rate)
Tercio (musketman, +100% vs mounted units)
Minuteman (musketman, ignore terrain costs)

As a general rule, if the bonus is +moves or +strength, they are not portable. If they are +n% bonuses they generally carry over.

 

[noncognosco]

Tercio (musketman, +100% vs mounted units)

The Tercio bonus is already almost useless because by the time you get to gunpowder the era of horse units is almost over. By the time you upgrade to riflemen there are probably no horse units left.

 

[Hakizo]

If you mean all of the UU special abilities? Then yes, however some such as Longbowman/Chu ko nu (Chinese) Will get ranged dmg+ but will then be upgraded to rifleman.

 

[fmlizard2]

The Tercio bonus is already almost useless because by the time you get to gunpowder the era of horse units is almost over. By the time you upgrade to riflemen there are probably no horse units left.

True in part, but I just had a recent game where my +100% powered ex-Tercio riflemen just mauled a bunch of Russian Cossacks. The bonus was HUGE.

 

[Deggial]

What I would love to see is all these "unique promotions" marked in a seperate color, e.g. green.

Like this, it would be far more easy to distinguish new-build units without inheritated promotions from older, upgrated ones *with* their unique promotion. All these yellow triangles you have to mouse-over to identify are not very clear.

 

[apocalypse105]

Minuteman
jaguar worrior
Cho-Ko-Nue
Foreign Legion
Champion Cavalry
Mohawk Warrior
Samurai
Janissary
Immortal
Cossack