Info from German magazine article

[Donegeal]

Bump. Re-read to OP for my info on 3 hex radius.

[Kolbeg]

,,"Civilisation tree": This tree has a lot of astles, called "Social Policies". These astles contain certain paths, one of them is the path of "Tradition". Each of these astles gives a civ a certain advantage (per example special units). A civ can follow one of these paths strictly and make a deep progress in that tree on that path, but the civ can also follow parallel several different paths but doesn´t make such a deep progress in each of these paths." - CivFanatics.com

Wow! This sounds to good to be true!

[Blaupanzer]

Units related to social policies sounds too good to be true? Sounds very interesting for sure, but implementation would be the proof here. Fanatics down one path, Mech Walkers down another -- can seem like social engineering -- only certain paths will win.

[Brizey]

Sub game combat worked for MoM and HoMM pretty well. MoM had a hard cap on units per tile, which could make choke points interesting.

[Ming]

Yeah... but who knows for sure at this point.

We can only hope more info on the combat system starts becoming available. It's really hard to talk about specifics when we really having nothing specific to start with

[SpencerH]

We demand a new smidgen of disinformation from Firaxis now dammit! How else are we to maintain the speculation fest?

[Jaybe]

Absolutely, Spence! They could provide an endless supply if they constantly disclosed how things currently stood. Especially if they did NOT tell how such things replaced which old ones.

[Dinner]

"just one unit per hex! (the magazine makes no distinction between military and non military units)"

OMG, there goes the idea of having a warrior escort your settlers or workers. This was the worst case scenario in my mind.

[Robert]

I think it has already been confirmed elsewhere that there are different types of units, and that only units of the same type (ie. non-combat, ground armies, airforce) cannot share a hex.

[Djglide]

"one unit" per tile

Even though it says one unit per tile, you still can have the same as a stack.
as long as you specify what the unit make up is.

Say you have a horse resource and iron and make use of 80% of the horse resource for the unit and 20% spearmen/Iron resource that makes the whole unit. with all of its subsequent advantages and disadvages of horsemen and spearmen?

Whats a unit anyways?

[thyrwyn]

The word was one military AND one civilian unit per hex. New word is that air units and missiles are separate and may stack (though we don't know how many. . .).

[Provost Harrison]

They kind of have to if you want to put aircraft on carriers and missiles on submarines.

[Felch]

What if we want to put aircraft on submarines? Are we stuck with just playing SMAC?