Re: compare Civ4 to Civ3?

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 at 17:53:37, BP <reply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
alt.games.civ3 :

>On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:43:55 GMT, Paul Hyett  wrote:
>
>>I like the concept of unit promotions through battle experience (a
>>separate concept from upgrading due to discovery of new technologies).
>>
>>For each fight a unit wins they gain experience points, and when they
>>reach a certain number of points, they earn a choice of promotions.
>>These allow you to specialise units for certain tasks - say attacking
>>cities or certain types of enemy units.
>
>Sounds a little strange to me - so now instead of just having
>different types of units such as swordsmen, pikeman, medieval
>infantry, or horsemen, there would also be different specializations
>within each unit type?

Yes.

There are non-combat promotions too - e.g. Medic, which allows you to 
heal injured units faster.
-- 
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett