Wonder Units Ideas

[dturtle1]

In the Wonder Thread we were discussing Macchu Piccu and Isau brought up the idea of Wonder Units, such as the Trojan Horse. I was initially sceptical based on the lack of truly wonderful units, however it generated a few different replies with examples and whilst off-Topic(hence this Thread ) and i have come around. I feel you would need at least one for each Era and lets face it the ancient Era might be tricky...

Examples So Far

Trojan Horse as Classical,
Schwerer Gustav for Modern
SS Great Eastern for Industrial.
Da Vinci's Organ Gun, rennaisance
Ottomans Urban Cannon, rennaisance
Song Dynasty Paddle Wheel Ships, Medieval(only issue is they werent really "unique", defn impressive tho )

We should be able to find some crazy idea for Atomic(the biggest ThermoNuclear missle Eva ... Firing it ends the game and you automatically lose(defaults to a score victory). Immunity to being declared war on ) and Information Era (massive Gundam Robot, or the Avengers Flying Aircraft Carrier but Ancient is gonna be tricky

Thoughts and idea's welcome

 

[Depravo]

It's a nice idea. I suppose the challenge is selecting from among thousands of elite, feared, unique or boldly experimental units something that might serve a unique purpose beyond 'stronger' or 'faster'.

You could extend the concept to civilian units like Zheng He's fleet, the Manila galleons or Francis Xavier's mission.

 

[Ikael]

Sounds like a really cool idea! Since now there are unique great persons, they could be tied to certain great engineers / scientists.

Examples:

Archimedes of Syracuse, great scientist
Grants an eureka towards an ancient era tech
Grants you one sample of the wonder unit "Heat ray trirreme". Counts with an extremely strong ranged attack that can be only employed against other naval units


Wernher Von Braun, great engineer
+2 science to your factories
Grants you 5 samples of the wonder unit "V-2 rocket". Strong expendable missile units, can't be intercepted by enemy aircraft.

 

[dturtle1]

Yeah sure with Civilian one as well, the SS Great Eastern is Civilian(i would say as a Unique Trade route but that doesn't work anymore...No split between Sea/land anymore

Yeah sure, tie them to great people as well... sounds cool, probably easier than actually making it a Unit you can build in regards to Modding as well, two bird with one stone

 

[awesome]

I know there was at least one Civ4 mod that had wonderful units, so it's been done before.

As for ideas, maybe the Medjay could work for the ancient era.

 

[chrisgatt7]

I actually really like this wonder unit idea ..