Does anyone know...

[Brutus66]

Two questions:
Will this be another 1UPT game?
Will units be able to march into the ocean and magically create transports under them?

If the answers to both are "yes", I've just saved $60.

[Myrddin]

Generally 1UPT, but I think I've seen suggestions about being able to "combine" units (I think this means adding siege units to other types).

It put me off Civ V due to experience with unit limits in CTP, but hopefully they'll do it better this time.

[astrologix]

Will units be able to march into the ocean and magically create transports under them?

Yes

[Brutus66]

Thanks for the responses.

I'm not an advocate for the old "stacks of doom", but the 1UPT was equally ridiculous. I would like to see stacking for at least two or three units, particularly giving melee units the ability to escort ranged units.

The auto-amphibious ability in Civ5 was a real deal breaker for me. It was a lazy way of getting around having to develop AI that could coordinate loading units into transports, favored by lazy players. Every time I saw it in action it rankled me.

[astrologix]

The auto-amphibious ability in Civ5 was a real deal breaker for me. It was a lazy way of getting around having to develop AI that could coordinate loading units into transports, favored by lazy players. Every time I saw it in action it rankled me.

I do hate it too

[Elok]

I suspect the new cliffs are a way of creating limited landing/boarding points to simplify things further for the AI.

[Flinx]

I'm not an advocate for the old "stacks of doom", but the 1UPT was equally ridiculous. I would like to see stacking for at least two or three units, particularly giving melee units the ability to escort ranged units.

What really bugged me about the 1UPT was that you could never send several units on a multi turn move because with random initiative they would each get in each other's way.

[self biased]

I suspect the new cliffs are a way of creating limited landing/boarding points to simplify things further for the AI.

also, because on planet earth there are in no way places that are less than ideal to stage a naval landing.

[Elok]

also, because on planet earth there are in no way places that are less than ideal to stage a naval landing.

Oh, there are. But there are both real-world and game-mechanics reasons for many things, and sometimes it is obvious that the latter is the real driving point. For example, in the real world there really are neat natural things like geysers and canyons and crap. But since discovering same does not have any significant effect on the real-world wealth or happiness of nations, it seems reasonable to attribute their inclusion more to the game mechanics reason that they wanted a rat-lever bonus for exploring. Likewise, there are unsuitable landing points IRL, but as they are not a large driving force of history on Civ's typical scale one suspects they were included more for game mechanics. Especially since the previous installment radically simplified marine-transport logistics in a different way, by essentially giving all land units organic water transport.

[Sir Og]

The final Civ4 AI was quite good at naval invasions. They would build transport + support ships fill them up and dump them near one of your cities which is pretty close to what you need to do if you are doing a naval invasion.

I vividly remember a game I played where Monty swept his continent and landed a ton of troops on my shores. I was really impressed.

[Ming]

Yeah... but there were times when a ship would land and the only units they dropped off were catapults

[N35t0r]

I remember a Civ 1 game in which I started in North America (earth map), conquered the Sioux in South America with chariots, built up a bit until cannons, and then proceeded to conquer all of Eurasia with hordes and hordes of cannons.

[Shogun Gunner]

I remember reading an article where the designers were interviewed about Civ V - they stated the IUPT was for playability. Perhaps I misconstrued that to mean HUMAN playability, but it was really AI playability.

[Myrddin]

I remember reading an article where the designers were interviewed about Civ V - they stated the IUPT was for playability. Perhaps I misconstrued that to mean HUMAN playability, but it was really AI playability.

Don't think so; limitations on units/tile make AI pathfinding harder not easier.

More likely it was a design decisions by someone who hated SoDs

[Shogun Gunner]

Don't think so; limitations on units/tile make AI pathfinding harder not easier.

More likely it was a design decisions by someone who hated SoDs

Ah yes...the SoDs did get a bit out of hand in previous versions of Civ. Seems like traditional/normal stacking limits could be a nice compromise. Avalon Hill and SPI wargames usually had a three unit stacking limit. Seems like Civ 6 might be finding that nice compromise. Thanks Myrddin!