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The myriad of unit abilities that are apparently being introduced in CIV look interesting, but I'm not so sure about them being accessed by promotions only. This would seem to favour an aggressive strategy. Unless you constanly have someone to fight you'll be stuck with vanilla flavoured units while you warlike opponent has a wide variety of specialised units gained through promotions.
Maybe builders get other advantages so it's obviously impossible to access the overall game balance without seeing the whole picture. The way I've tended to play Civ II, SMAC(X) and in the last week or two Civ II, is to be a peacefull builder for most of the game with a relatively small (geographically speaking) empire, and then later on with tech superiority run amok with advanced units. It would seem that unit promotions work against this strategy, encouraging more frequent wars to keep you stock of jungle fighters or amphibious landers or whatever at reasonable levels, instead of just being able to build them when neccessary.
Of course making veteran players change their styles of play is not neccassarily a bad thing, but I was interested in what anyone else thought about this promotions thing?
Maybe builders get other advantages so it's obviously impossible to access the overall game balance without seeing the whole picture. The way I've tended to play Civ II, SMAC(X) and in the last week or two Civ II, is to be a peacefull builder for most of the game with a relatively small (geographically speaking) empire, and then later on with tech superiority run amok with advanced units. It would seem that unit promotions work against this strategy, encouraging more frequent wars to keep you stock of jungle fighters or amphibious landers or whatever at reasonable levels, instead of just being able to build them when neccessary.
Of course making veteran players change their styles of play is not neccassarily a bad thing, but I was interested in what anyone else thought about this promotions thing?
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