New PtW Units

[Jon Shafer]

Guerilla and Medieval Infantry. No other info is known. Speculate.

If anyone has any suggestions for another name than "Medieval Infantry", then they're looking for a different one, so put on your thinking caps!

[Imp. Montezuma]

Landsknecht?

[civman2000]

WHere is this information from? It seems that you've been having a lot of new info lately, was there some sort of firaxis interview with monkspider i missed??

[Jon Shafer]

The chatroom.

[Cyclotron]

Call them "footmen."

[monkspider]

lol no no no, unbeknownst to me actually, there was a chat with some of the civ crew tonight (and it's still going on if you hurry! ). I missed out on a large part of it sadly.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

1. Communist Insurgent
0.0.2 Invisible to all units except Fascist Thug Made only by Communist Countries, Move unit into city to creat unhappiness, which in turn could creat civil disorder
2. Fascist Thug
0.0.2 Invisible to all units except Communist Insurgent, Made only by Fascist countires. Move unit into city to investige weather a communist insurget is operating there.

of course, first you need a fascist government =(

For WW2 unit set
1. Panzer --- Panther --- Tiger
2. U - Boat

[civman2000]

I just discovered it...noticed there were 20 people and decided to chaeck it out!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

its on right now?

[monkspider]

Join in Lawrence

[Harlan]

I'm very excited to see the Guerilla unit in. That must mean the whole "partisan effect" from Civ2, or something close to it, is in too.

I wonder what is meant by Medieval infantry. A link between Pikeman and Musketman, or between Musketman and Rifleman, or something else?

[alexman]

Originally posted by Harlan
I wonder what is meant by Medieval infantry. A link between Pikeman and Musketman, or between Musketman and Rifleman, or something else?

They said it would be like a knight without the horses. So I'm guessing it will be the upgrade of the swordsman (4-3-1, cost 60, available with chivalry).

If they are adding new units, I sincerely hope they are planning to slow the tech rate at higher difficulty levels...

[Spiffor]

I suppose they'll be swordsmen in full plate (as opposed to pikemen who were the core of medieval infantry). That means the Samurai will probably become unique "medieval infantry", 4.4.1, cost 60.

A name for the medieval infantry ? Maybe a "holy warrior" of some sort, "crusader", "paladin". "Longswordsman" is ridiculous. I don't think "fighter" applies, it would be too redundant with D&D

[Lawrence of Arabia]

How bout Teutonic Knights? These guys were on foot and were heavily armored and used swords.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Or if you wanted it to be more general, you could do "Monk-Soldiers" or as spiffor said "paladin"