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Long-time Civ player, but only recently started playing C3C seriously enough to get into the mechanics. I usually play Regent on 80% archi, wet, temp, stationary hordes, Persian.
As far as I can tell, it takes an elite unit winning a combat to produce a leader and thus an Army. Is there any rhyme to this reason? Is there any way to increase your chances for gaining leaders and thus armies?
I was playing last night and had to clean the smelly Mayans off my continent. I usually count on having at least one iron as a resource which makes the Persian Immortal rush basically unstoppable in the Ancient game. Hoplites stop them cold sometimes, but I'm rarely next to the Greeks.
Anyhoo...about 10 to 20 turns into this Immortal sweep I had at LEAST five elite Immortals. I kept trying to get them to turn into leaders, but to no avail. Here's a couple things I've noticed about rank increases with combat units, though (like going from regular to veteran, for instance)
1) Surviving consecutive attacks in the same turn.
2) Killing enemy units in consecutive turns.
3) Killing the last unit in a city.
This last one seems to be the one that gives me leaders most of the time. I cannot recall getting a leader out in the open, although it could just be the crackpipe talkin'.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm beginning to shift from a primarily "leave me alone so I can build up and research until I dominate you through tech...the better to wipe you out" player and more into an aggressive early expansionist. Gotta love those Persian Immortals. The creation of armies would definitely aid toward my new-found maniacal dictator persona.
As far as I can tell, it takes an elite unit winning a combat to produce a leader and thus an Army. Is there any rhyme to this reason? Is there any way to increase your chances for gaining leaders and thus armies?
I was playing last night and had to clean the smelly Mayans off my continent. I usually count on having at least one iron as a resource which makes the Persian Immortal rush basically unstoppable in the Ancient game. Hoplites stop them cold sometimes, but I'm rarely next to the Greeks.
Anyhoo...about 10 to 20 turns into this Immortal sweep I had at LEAST five elite Immortals. I kept trying to get them to turn into leaders, but to no avail. Here's a couple things I've noticed about rank increases with combat units, though (like going from regular to veteran, for instance)
1) Surviving consecutive attacks in the same turn.
2) Killing enemy units in consecutive turns.
3) Killing the last unit in a city.
This last one seems to be the one that gives me leaders most of the time. I cannot recall getting a leader out in the open, although it could just be the crackpipe talkin'.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm beginning to shift from a primarily "leave me alone so I can build up and research until I dominate you through tech...the better to wipe you out" player and more into an aggressive early expansionist. Gotta love those Persian Immortals. The creation of armies would definitely aid toward my new-found maniacal dictator persona.
but I don't think that's what you meant 
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