Spanish UU: Lame or Not?

[Fidel]

Re: Spanish UU: Lame or Not?

Originally posted by siredgar
Why is there a dog there? How lame.

It looks like a German Shepherd, too. My sister's Chihuahua would have made a better choice:

http://www.barkbytes.com/history/chihua.htm

on the contrary, having a chiuaua is lame beyond words

[Solver]

Come on, it's so early to speak of it, yet. We can't speak much before the E3, and even then, I'll be careful with whatever I say right till I get a copy of PtW and play a few games with it.

[Bella Hella]

shut up! the dog is cute!!!!

just kidding. what's it supposed to do, give you better scouting radius or something?

[civman2000]

IT doesnt matter, but to be historically accurate, the whole unit should just be a smallpox virus!

[Andrew_Jay]

What's a 'tercio'?

[Andrew_Jay]

A quick internet search showed me pictures of bullfighting, including pictures of a guy on a hores fighting a bull, as well as a painting that looks a lot like Picaso's painting of Don Quixote. There was also a page for an armoured marine batalion.
Therefore, please help or I'll go on thinking that this 'tercio' is;
a. a bullfighter (take that 'cattle' bonus squares )
b. a slightly demented old man who thinks he's a knight (great for destroying irrigation since there aren't any windmills in the games to tilt at)
c. another modern armour unit
Not that this all matters since we know the UU, I'm just curious.

[Cyclotron]

It's largely irrelevant whether the unit was actually technically a unit... in the Civ3 scheme of things, the UUs have been made to reflect what is best known about each Civ. It's not the product of a history book, and most gamers don't want to look up the units they are using before they can understand and relate to them.

[Spiffor]

Cyclotron :
Maybe, but we'll have an absolutely not-known Hwacha as Korean UU, and I'd never heard of the Keshik before. So there will be some things which can interest the players. (other example : I didn't know about the Immortals, so I profited from my ignorance to pick some basics on ancient Persian history).

Andrew_Jay :
I don't know exactly what a "tercio" is, because I only read about it in this forum, but it seems like the very thing the Spaniards want to represent their country's military.
AFAIK, it's a unit mixing pikemen and musketmen which was nearly invicible until the coming of more modern cavalry. It was the backbone of Spanish wars in Europe. (well, I might be wrong, but it's the way I understood)

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
Sometimes I wonder if George Lucas and Sid Meier have lost their touch.................................

Perhaps PTW will let you trade Death Star plans instead of world maps?

[Jon Shafer]

Ahhhh who cares if they put a stupid dog in the picture. It actually gives some personality to the numerous mounted units instead of having them all look the same.

[Darkworld Ark]

I like the dog!

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Trip
Ahhhh who cares if they put a stupid dog in the picture. It actually gives some personality to the numerous mounted units instead of having them all look the same.

The fact that it's a mounted unit period is bad enouhg IMHO. Aren't there enough?

Perhaps for spain, we should have militan police as a UU. When I was in spain, all I saw were guys in uniform, showing off their AKs, or what ever.

I was in a KFC in madride, and those police guys shot down a car theif in front of the KFC. It wasn't pretty.

[Jon Shafer]

It's doubtful military policemen with AK47s have had much impact upon Spanish history...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Trip
It's doubtful military policemen with AK47s have had much impact upon Spanish history...

Well, it certainly effect my history of Spain.

[monkspider]

THE DOG IS WHAT MAKES THE UNIT! HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST OTHERWISE!

personally, I wouldn't even consider buying this game if the dog *WASN'T* included.