Civ2 Unit Tables

[Martin Gühmann]

Units

• Military Ground Units
• Military Naval Units
• Military Air Units
• Military Combined Units
• NonMilitary Units

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Military Ground Units

UNIT	Scientific Advance	COST	Attack/Defense Strength	Movement	Comments/Special
Warriors	None	10	1/1	1	This Unit is basically useless, Only use if nothing better is available.
Phalanx	Bronze Working	20	1/2	1	This unit is best used for Defending cities.
Archers	Warrior Code	30	3/2	1	None
Legion	Iron Working	40	4/2	1	Well, the Romans used them to conquer all of Europe.
Horse- men	Horseback Riding	20	2/1	2	use for EARLY attacks on near-by neighbors.
Pikemen	Feudalism	20	1/2(4)	1	Better than the Phalanx because it's defense strength is *2 against attackers on horseback.
Chariot	The Wheel	30	3/1	2	Good if the enemy is far away because it's faster than Legions.
Elephant	Polytheism	40	4/1	2	Even better than the chariot, but still weaker than Legions.
Catapult	Mathematics	40	6/1	1	Slow, expensive, easy to kill, but great if you've got a blockaded city your legions just can't get.
Crusaders	Monotheism	40	5/1	2	Great, you can get to the cities this century and conquer it as well. Unless they have a pikemen near by.
Knights	Chivalry	40	4/2	2	the Legions equal, but faster! Don't use against pikemen.
Dragoons	Leadership	50	5/2	2	Better
Musketeers	Gunpowder	30	3/3	1	Nice, but I usually hold out for Conscription.
Riflemen	Conscription	40	5/4	1	An effective city defence.
Cavalry	Tactics	60	8/3	2	Defeated the Indians.
Partisans	Guerrilla Warfare	50	4/4	1	Created when a city is captured from a civilization who has Guerrilla Warfare.
Fanatics	Fundamentalism	20	4/4	1	Can only be produced under a Fundamentalist Government.
Cannon	Metallurgy	40	8/1	1	Again, only use against a city that you have under control. (can't attack from)
Marines	Amphibious Warfare	60	8/5	1	Can make amphibious Assaults, but they never seem to work out for me.
Artillery	Machine Tools	50	10/1	1	Same as Cannon.
Armor	Mobile Warfare	80	10/5	3	used mostly for invading, use Mechanized Infantry to defend
Mechanized Infantry	Labor Union	50	6/6	3	used mostly for defense.
Howitzer	Robotics	70	12/2	2	Excellent for city bombardment because is ignores the city walls improvement.

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Military Naval Units

UNIT	Scientific Advance	COST	Attack/Defence Strength	movement	Comments/Special
Trireme	Map Making	50	1/1	3	Make sure it ends it's turn close to land. If not, you could lose it! And it's really frustrating to lose the 2 other units along with it.
Caravel	Navigation	40	2/1	3	Used to carry ground units.
Frigate	Magnetism	50	4/2	4	Can be used to carry ground troops.
Galleon	Magnetism	40	0/2	4	Used exclusively from troop transport.
Ironclad	Steam Engine	60	4/2	2	None
Transport	Industrialization	50	0/3	5	Used exclusevely for troop transport.
Destroyer	Electricity	60	4/4	6	Can spot enemy submarines.
Submarine	Combustion	60	10/2	3	Invisible to most sea/ground units. Can carry 8 missiles.
Cruiser	Steel	80	6/6	5	Can spot enemy submarines.
Battleship	Automobile	160	12/12	4	Computer waists Cruise missles on these for some reason. 5-7 to sink.
Aegis Cruiser	Rocketry	100	8/8	5	defense doubled against air units.
Carrier	Advanced Flight	160	1/9	5	Can carry/refuel up to 8 aircraft.

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Military Air Units

UNIT	Scientific Advance	COST	Attack/Defense Strength	Movement	Comments/Special
Fighter	Flight	60	4/2	10	Must end turn insided a friendly city or airbase.
Bomber	Advanced Flight	120	12/1	8	Must end turn after 16 moves, get 8 per turn.
Helicopter	Combined Arms	100	10/3	6	must eventualy land in a friendly city because it takes damage during flight.
Stealth fighter	Stealth	160	14/3	12	Must end turn inside a friendly city after 24 moves, get 12 per turn.
Stealth bomber	Stealth	80	8/3	14	Must end turn in either a friendly city or airbase.

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Military Combined Unites

UNIT	Science Advance	COST	Attack/Defense Strength	Movement	Comments/Special
Alpine Troops	Tactics	50	5/5	1	All terain is crossed as if by road.
Para-troopers	Combined Arms	60	6/4	1	Can make paradrops from cities with airports up to 10 spaces away.
Cruise Missile	Rocketry	60	20/0	12	Must either end turn in a friendly city or be used on an enemy position. Upsets locals.
Nuclear Missile	Rocketry/ nuclear fission	160	99/0	16	Same rules as Cruise Missile. But when used on a city it destroys all enemy units within, ruins surounding land improvements, and covers the detonation area with polution. Cannot be built until the Manhattan project has been completed.

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Non-Military Units

All units have an attack strength of 0.

UNIT	Scinece Advance	COST	Defense Strenght	Movement	Comments/Special
Settlers	None	40/1pop	1	1	In addition to 40 shields building this, it also removes 1 pop from the home city. This unit is used to found new cities.
Diplomat	Writing	30	0	2	Used for building embassies, espionage, weakening enemy cities, stealing technology, Inciting revolts, Industrial Sabotage, etc.
Caravan	Trade	50	1	1	Used for creating trade routes between cities. Can also be used to hurry WOW building.
Explorer	Seafaring	30	1	1	All terrain is crossed as if by road. Excellent if you have a huge land mass you want to explore really quickly.
Engineer	Explosives	40	2	2	Does everything twice as fast as a settler, plus can drastically alter a landscape. (mountains->hills)
Freight	Corporation	50	1	2	Replaces Caravan. Plus trade routs created using Freight produce move overall trade.
Spy	Espionage	30	0	3	Replaces Diplomat. More effective, and can place nuclear devices.

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