Does ALL combat-units need access to resources?

[Skanky Burns]

I went to the link Ralf provided. I think they stuffed up somewhat....

Gold is listed in both the Strategic Resources and the Luxury Goods lists

I remember a previous post where there were pictures of 16 resources available, and guesses as to what they were. Ill see if i can locate it

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I agree, gold would be a luxury, not a resource - or perhaps an extra source of trade for a tile...

I think that the gold-resource (and gems) was to weak in Civ-2. Sure it was attractive to have within your city-area, yes. But one mined gold-mountain (or gems-jungle) only represented a couple of ocean fish-tiles worth of trade. Big deal.

In Civ-3 mined gold-mountains should be much more of a trade-jackpot - at least from ancient to- mid industrial eras.

[Ilkuul]

THE ANSWER?

I believe we may now have the answer to Ralf's original question ("Do ALL combat-units need access to resources?") -- in the latest Gamespy preview:

"In addition to required technologies, each unit has a requisite resource you must have or trade for before it can be built."

See http://www.gamespy.com/previews/august01/civ3.

Hmmm. Many of those resources better be pretty easy to come by...!

[Provost Harrison]

Well for ships, it would be better to have the resource 'hardwood' rather than wood per se which could be traded between nations for building some of the ships. Forests will be everywhere which would mean there wouldn't be anything to trade. Unless the have some other special resource needed for ships...

[Swissy]

Bronze was used for cannon, both land and naval, well into the1800's. I do not think that iron was used to much until the benefits of rifling the barrels were discovered. Bronze was also used for the earliest of hand firearms(handgunnes and arquebus).

As for gold, modern electronic uses gold. Most of the critical plug in components in your computer have gold on them. I am sure that if you melted down a F-15 you'd get more gold out of it than you'd think was there.