Better Unique Units & Buildings for XP2

[LordShiva]

It's so boring that unique units/buildings are necessarily bonuses (boni?)

Let's come up with a list of unique units/buildings that confer negative effects instead Strategy will then have to take the negative aspects of your civ into account as well

French
Unique wonder: Maginot Line (replaces Great wall)
It looks just like the great wall on the map, but has big holes in it through which your enemies can invade.

Indians
Unique unit: Slow Worker (replaces Worker)
If anyone's been to India, he or she would know that workers there never finish projects on time, like to strike a lot, come in to work late, take 2 hour lunch breaks, etc.

Americans
Unique building: McDonald's (replaces Grocer)
Instead of a health bonus, you get a health penalty

Others?

[Alexander I]

Re: Better Unique Units & Buildings for XP2

Originally posted by LordShiva

Americans
Unique building: McDonald's (replaces Grocer)
Instead of a health bonus, you get a health penalty

McDonald's - spreads nuclear fallout in addition to health penalties. It'd be pretty funny to look at your city screen to see why your people are sick and to see them say "Groan... Too Many Big Macs..."

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Better Unique Units & Buildings for XP2

Originally posted by Alexander01
McDonald's - spreads nuclear fallout in addition to health penalties.

No, no, you're mixing it up with the Russian UB (Chernobyl, replaces Nuclear Plant).

[Thedrin]

Germany. Reichstag. Replaces courthouse. Destroyed during every period of anarchy.

[Alexander I]

Re: Re: Re: Better Unique Units & Buildings for XP2

Originally posted by LordShiva


No, no, you're mixing it up with the Russian UB (Chernobyl, replaces Nuclear Plant).

Same thing.

[Lord Avalon]

Romans:

Not a UU, more akin to a GP. Not exactly sure how this would work, but if you're led by Julius Caesar, at some point Brutus shows up & kills him and throws your government into anarchy.

[LordShiva]

Unique GPs, huh? Intriguing.

Like if you attached the French Great General to a unit and were invaded through a gap in your Maginot Line, all units in a 5 square radius of the general would surrender

[Lord Avalon]

Americans:

GP - Celebrity

Add to city to increase happiness by 1, but also incease idleness by 1 due to lack of productivity. (Cannot be used for Golden Age.)

Broadcast tower spreads this effect to cities within a certain radius (which goes up with more power?). Maybe even nonhostile neighbors. (Hostile neighbors jam the signal.)

Edit
Not sure who should get this UU:

Tank - "Flaming Coffin"

While good on offense, this unit is at half strength (less?) when defending against modern units.

[Willem]

If Canada were in the game, we'd have the Avro Arrow as the unique unit. It gets dismantled as soon as it's built.

[Lord Avalon]

Russians:

GP - Commissar

Attaches itself to military units. Units which try to withdraw from combat are considered destroyed - executed for cowardice in the face of the enemy. The commissar then joins another military unit.

Units which suffer only slight damage in combat have not shown sufficient patriotic fervor and are reduced 25% due to more executions.

[LordShiva]

Vikings:

UU - Vasa (replaces Frigate)

As soon as it leaves its home city, it sinks

[Addled Platypus]

you guys funny

[patcon]

Americans - Great Prophet - Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, et al. - sliders set at 0% science, 0% culture, 100% wealth; universities and labs cannot be built and become inactive if already built; libraries have effects reduced by 50%; certain techs (Scientific Method, Genetics, etc.) cannot be researched and lose their effect; Theocracy civic mandatory, all religious buildings other than state religion become ineffective and cannot be built, 50% of non-state religion citizens convert each turn; cities lose 10% of accumulated culture per turn; only priest specialists allowed; productivity reduced by 14.2857% (1/7)

Americans - Special Great Prophet - Jim Jones and David Koresh - same effects as above, plus the city in which they are born loses 50% of its population (OK, this may be going too far.)

These effects remain in effect until the birth of a Great Scientist.

[Lancer]

Paris gun...every time it fires it recieves a hit point reduction.

[LordShiva]

Let's maintain some semblance of balance.