Upgrading

[jordie]

What are the requirements for upgrading units?
Here is my prob:
I'm in the Middle Ages and have a bunch of spearmen in cities which I want to upgrade to pikemen. They all have iron in their strategic resources box's but only some cities can upgrade. They are also all joined by road.
I have 2 iron sources.
What else do I need to do?

[asleepathewheel]

barracks need one in town to upgrade.

[jordie]

oh... right, I should of known that. Thanks so much!

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by jordie
oh... right, I should of known that. Thanks so much!

That's ok, its what the board is for.

hint: shift-u will upgrade all the units, in case you didn't know

[jordie]

sweet, thanks again!

[werdhertz]

the wonder sun tzus art of war puts a barracks in all of your cities no cost (if i recall), and leonardos workshop lets you upgrade units at half cost

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by werdhertz
the wonder sun tzus art of war puts a barracks in all of your cities no cost (if i recall), and leonardos workshop lets you upgrade units at half cost

sun tzus only puts barracks in cities on the same continent as the wonder.

Its probably my favorite (after hoover), especially when I am on a large landmass, makes for faster attacks, quick heals, vets etc.

leo's is nice too, esp when upgrading mass amounts of defensive units.

[vmxa1]

I rarely manage to get those wonders unless I play monarch, so sad. I once did get Sun Tzu on deity, but never both.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by vmxa1
I rarely manage to get those wonders unless I play monarch, so sad. I once did get Sun Tzu on deity, but never both.

True, since I've moved up to emperor, my only hope for Sun Tzu is a great leader. Luckily I am on the warpath with chivalry which creates a leader every once in a while. But I don't know the last time I built leo. I only care about Sun if I'm on a decent sized continent, otherwise its cheaper just to build barracks.

[jordie]

Yeah, the American's beat me to sun tzus by 1 turn in my current game.

[Kampus majore]

Hm, I went for Hoover dam, and before I had the tech I started building Palace. But someone got there first....

So I try to stall the building of the palace, but unfortunately there were no other wonders to build and I also didn't want to build a city improvement and loose 700 shields.....

So the palace was mooved and it costs me 70 gold per turn......

[WarpStorm]

It sounds like you should have wasted the shields.

[Kampus majore]

Yep, you are absolutely right....

[Kampus majore]

Later I saw that i could have researched espionage and build the intelligence agency.....

But I went for tanks.....

[Tattila the Hun]

Wouldn't it be nice, if that 99 percent ready Great Wonder could be left like that, as a monument of one's failure, maybe generating 1 culture?