Question about Great Leader, Armies

[JohnM2433]

Originally posted by mrmichaeln
I haven't tried it, but is there a way to unload my units later on in the game? It would be nice to be able to upgrade my army to more modern units when I discover the newer technology.

No, it was decided that being able to unload or upgrade units in armies would make them too powerful. There was a bug that allowed units to unload under certain circumstances, but it has been fixed. If you're playing with an old patch, you could try it, but it would be a cheat. So I wouldn't tell you how to do it, even if I remembered how, which I dont.

Originally posted by mrmichaeln
I wonder if the army can generate a GL?

No, units in armies cannot generate Great Leaders. Neither can elite units that have generated Great Leaders before. If you are using the 1.29 patch, these units are identified with an asterisk after their rank (Elite*). These are the best elites to stick into armies (because units in armies can't generate GLs anyway) or upgrade (elite units are returned to veteran status when they upgrade -- and can then generate another Great Leader after they regain elite status).

Originally posted by mrmichaeln
I moved my army 'shell' to my main battle field, because my war was raging on another continent, and I find that triremes will only load the shell if I have at most one loaded unit.

That's because the galley (it's not called a trireme in Civ III, people) only has a transport capacity of 2, and an x-unit army is considered x+1 units -- one is the army itself, and the others are the units in it. The same considerations apply for enforcing martial law. To move a whole 3-unit army, you will need a ship with a bigger transport capacity.

Originally posted by mrmichaeln
I found it frustrating that even though horsemen have 2 movement points, that when they are loaded into the army unit, the army unit has only one movement point.

Not if the army is made entirely of horsemen. An army moves at the rate of its slowest component unit (because the units must move as a group).

[mrmichaeln]

Thanks.

How do you know SO much?

I got what I wanted to know, and MORE.

[JohnM2433]

Well, most of the stuff in my last post I learned by reading threads in various Civ III forums.

"self-reference": see "self-reference"

(OT: If want to understand what the above "definition" means -- and I don't blame you if you don't -- please read Godel, Escher, Bach : an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter, one of the greatest books ever written. It's one of the reasons that I know so much, although I can't say it's taught me anything about Civ III. )