Unit promotion

[Strategist83]

Would the unit promotion game aspect not be more interesting if you were forced to select a promotion as soon as one became available? In my opinion, it is a tad cheap to hold off promoting right up to the turn you actually enter combat.

[GeoModder]

How can a unit be promoted if it hasn't sufficient XP to choose a promotion in the first place? A unit must first have experienced combat to gain those XP's.

[Cort Haus]

I think it's clear enough, GM.

The sensible thing to do is not promote, eg, a new veteran unit until you know what it's needed for, and the OP would rather be forced to assign a skill as soon as the XP are attained (by birthright or battle).

Personally I think it would be horrible to have to build a trillion units to deal with every possible future scenario, and would hate to be forced to pick the promo straight away.

[GeoModder]

Yeah, misinterpreted the OP. Sorry.

[ghen]

They've already addressed that somewhat by making promotions automatically heal the unit a bit. That makes it more worthwhile to upgrade units when they're damaged after a fight.

[xxFlukexx]

Not really, I aslready know what my units are going to do before I even make them. If on the defensive I give my guys vs melee promo(while melees still exist) and city/hills defense and vs mounted unit promos. While on the offensive I give out city raider, medic and the rest mostly combats.

Danger with promoting too late is of course, getting ganked by a mounted unit before you promote.

I don't see how promoting whenever you want lessens strategy.

[Axxaer]

Well if you think it would be more interesting Strategist, then does it really hurt you to do that yourself without the game forcing you to? Just pretend its a new rule and it probably won't disadvantage you much in single-player (assuming comp promotes immediately - ???)

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by ghen
They've already addressed that somewhat by making promotions automatically heal the unit a bit. That makes it more worthwhile to upgrade units when they're damaged after a fight.

Or to save the promotion for when it needs healing.