I've been thinking about this ever since I sat down the other day and watched the movie Gladiator.
I was looking at the opening battle scene, and when I saw Maximus and his men riding down on horses, I said to myself, the Civ3 horsemen didn't really look like that?
So I came up with a neat idea.
Keeping with what we know about Civ3, remove all horse units, and replace them a single cheap horse. Horseman would be a regular horse, chivalry would be an armored horse, and military tradition would be a controlled breeded horse.
Then you need another non horse, non wheel unit and "load" it on the horse. So, for example, you build a regular horse, then a swordsman and mount the swordsman on the horse, now the unit has the same attack/defense number as a swordsman, but the horse adds 1 movement point, so the swordsman can move two spaces instead of one. Armored horse would add 2, and breeded horse would add 3.
Horses that have no unit on it can be captured. Once a unit is on a horse, the unit can’t unload nor upgrade. Horses can never upgrade.
I'm guessing this would be pretty unbalanced, but I want to know what everyone (those who catch my idea) thinks.
I was looking at the opening battle scene, and when I saw Maximus and his men riding down on horses, I said to myself, the Civ3 horsemen didn't really look like that?
So I came up with a neat idea.
Keeping with what we know about Civ3, remove all horse units, and replace them a single cheap horse. Horseman would be a regular horse, chivalry would be an armored horse, and military tradition would be a controlled breeded horse.
Then you need another non horse, non wheel unit and "load" it on the horse. So, for example, you build a regular horse, then a swordsman and mount the swordsman on the horse, now the unit has the same attack/defense number as a swordsman, but the horse adds 1 movement point, so the swordsman can move two spaces instead of one. Armored horse would add 2, and breeded horse would add 3.
Horses that have no unit on it can be captured. Once a unit is on a horse, the unit can’t unload nor upgrade. Horses can never upgrade.
I'm guessing this would be pretty unbalanced, but I want to know what everyone (those who catch my idea) thinks.
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