View Poll Results: Which Special unit will spawn the earliest great leader in game?
Rome Legion 3/3/1 3 17.65%
Greek Hoplite 1/3/1 1 5.88%
Persian Immortal 4/2/1 2 11.76%
Iroquois Mounted Warrior 3/1/2 0 0%
Egyptian War Chariot 2/1/2 2 11.76%
Babylonian Bowman 2/1/2 1 5.88%
Indian War Elephant 4/3/2 1 5.88%
Chinese Rider 4/4/3 0 0%
Aztecs Jaguar Warrior 1/1/2 3 17.65%
Russia Cossack 6/4/3 4 23.53%
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Old October 17, 2001, 17:58   #1
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Which special Unit is the best for spawn of great leader?
You have to consider several things:
1) Avaliablity: Some requires advanced Tech, some requires special resourses, or even small wonders.

2) CIV attributes: Military CIV having higher chance of spawn GL

3) Defensive ability, also provide higher chance of survival. Imaging that it will be important when your unit become veteran or Elite, they will be the target of other civ.

4) Retreat ability. Faster unit can retreat from combat.

5) Offensive ability: the unit have to fight enough combats to be promoted to Elite.

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Old October 17, 2001, 18:26   #2
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Does it take a UU to spawn a Great Leader? Why should the UU be better to get a GL?
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Old October 17, 2001, 18:27   #3
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Does it take a UU to spawn a Great Leader? Why should the UU be better to get a GL?
As far as I know, the unit makes no difference.
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Old October 17, 2001, 18:30   #4
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So why's the poll:

-Which UU will spawn a Gl first?-
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Old October 17, 2001, 18:30   #5
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Yes, not only UU can do it. But UU provide a higher chance of spawn it than general units.
When we comparing UU, one thing we should consider is its ability to spawn great leader(GL), because GL is obviously the most important feature in combat, and other aspect of CIV3, like building wonders, and building armies.
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But UU provide a higher chance of spawn it than general units.
Sorry but you are incorrect on this one. The UU is the only unit that can spawn you a GA. I think this is what you are thinking of. A UU will not be more superior in earning a higher status than a regular unit.

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This person is just simply wrong, that's all.
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At the beginning, I want to vote on units, but then I feel that special benefit of UU make it a generally better choice for spawning. Say, if you want to vote for spearman, then obviously Greek hoplite is better than normal spearmen..

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-Which UU will spawn a Gl first?-
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Are U sure about that, cos I really like the German ( Militaristic and Scientific) but if that is true, only later in the game I'll get more chances to spawn a GL ( with the panzer) which would be a GREAT disadvantge to the Germans...
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As a military CIV, German very likely will get GL before Panzer. But with general units, like swordman, or knight.

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Are U sure about that, cos I really like the German ( Militaristic and Scientific) but if that is true, only later in the game I'll get more chances to spawn a GL ( with the panzer) which would be a GREAT disadvantge to the Germans...
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I think it would be a unit with the following attributes:

1) Ability to retreat. Units with more movement get to do this. This way you can survive more battles and thus continue to increase its level.
2) Militaristic Civ.
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A UU DOESN'T HAVE ANY SPECIAL ADVANTAGES IN BECOMING A GL OVER A REGULAR UNIT!!!
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I think it would be a unit with the following attributes:

1) Ability to retreat. Units with more movement get to do this. This way you can survive more battles and thus continue to increase its level.
2) Militaristic Civ.
Good point of retreat. I was thinking:
3) Good defense.
4) Good offense. Therefore I chose Rome Legion.
ALso i think Legion is best for forming an army.
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ALso i think Legion is best for forming an army.
I'm still rather unclear about armies, but I thought a GL was a prerequisite to building armies until you research Nationalism. The small wonder that also allows them (Miltary Academy?) also requires a GL first.
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I disagree.
As Pembleton and me pointed out:
The special units are either have more offense, or defense, or retreating ability than general units. Therefore they may fight and survive more wars, therefore more chance to spawn GL.

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Each time elite unit win a combat, there is a chance for spawn of GL.
After GL, you can build Hero Epic (small wonder) and
use GL to form an army.
After you army win the 1st battle, you can build War Academy (Small wonder) which allow Army building without GL.

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I'm still rather unclear about armies, but I thought a GL was a prerequisite to building armies until you research Nationalism. The small wonder that also allows them (Miltary Academy?) also requires a GL first.
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The special units are either have more offense, or defense, or retreating ability than general units. Therefore they may fight and survive more wars, therefore more chance to spawn GL.
Well, that is fairly obvious.
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It will most likely be the earliest one cause they have the most time to become a GL
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Old October 17, 2001, 19:17   #19
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Jaguar Warrior? Maybe.
But I remember at least 5 civ having the tech of bronze from beginng. That's about 1/3 of chance.
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1: Great Leaders may spawned when an elite unit wins combat.
2: Great Leaders are only spawned when it was a difficult win.

So to maximize your chance to spawn a GL, you need to cover both points 1 and 2. IMHO the retreat ability will allow your units to participate in many battles, and even if they are losing, they can retreat. If not, they win Therefore they are more likely to gain rank, to become elite.

Secondly, attacking or defending with a 1.1.2 unit is definately considered a difficult combat. If you win with this unit, i believe you would be more likely to spawn a GL.

So i think the Jaguar Warrior will be the earliest to spawn GLs.
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But remeber Jaguar is only worthy a fight at the beginning of the game, when civs are still far from each other, When your Jaguar reach other civ, they may already have spearman, or can build a army of spearman soon. Even you can win and spawn a GL, remember that GL HAVE to come back to one of your
city to be any use at all. That could be a long journey for the Jaguar hero to move back to capital. :=)
So it's depends on the size of map.

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1: Great Leaders may spawned when an elite unit wins combat.
2: Great Leaders are only spawned when it was a difficult win.

So to maximize your chance to spawn a GL, you need to cover both points 1 and 2. IMHO the retreat ability will allow your units to participate in many battles, and even if they are losing, they can retreat. If not, they win Therefore they are more likely to gain rank, to become elite.

Secondly, attacking or defending with a 1.1.2 unit is definately considered a difficult combat. If you win with this unit, i believe you would be more likely to spawn a GL.

So i think the Jaguar Warrior will be the earliest to spawn GLs.
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Uh.... where in the name of god is the Impi.

If it's a case of 'which unique unit will spawn a GL the earliest' it's gonna be the Impi or the Jaguar warrior as both afaik are based on the warrior unit and are consequently available at the begining of the game.

The Aztec and Zulu civs will pump out a lot of these most likely ( and according to one of the only accounts of someone who's played the game that I've read the Zulus sure as hell do ) and as soon as any of them win a combat a golden age is triggered.

And golden age means more production which means, yes that's right, MORE Jaguar/Impi warriors!

Which means they are, of all the unique units, assuming the civilization is in a situation allowing it to engage in combat, the unique unit most likely to spawn the first great leader in the game.
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If you've spawned a great leader, then chances are that the units you trained to elite status have already captured an enemy city (or more). So even if the two empires are far apart, the GL will only need to travel to a near city to be used.

Obviously, the map size and shape will determine if this strategy will work. Its pointless building hordes of Jaguar Warriors if you then have to wait until you have boats to go on the offensive, but generally, i believe that the JWs will have the best chance at being the first to spawn a GL.

Spearmen arent much of a problem if you have a horde of JWs, though. You can attack with one, bring the spearmans health down a bit before retreating, attack with another, and another, until the spearman is dead, with NO JW losses. Good ol' retreatin
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Sorry, Impi is not on the list simply because we don't have its stat yet.

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Uh.... where in the name of god is the Impi.

If it's a case of 'which unique unit will spawn a GL the earliest' it's gonna be the Impi or the Jaguar warrior as both afaik are based on the warrior unit and are consequently available at the begining of the game.

The Aztec and Zulu civs will pump out a lot of these most likely ( and according to one of the only accounts of someone who's played the game that I've read the Zulus sure as hell do ) and as soon as any of them win a combat a golden age is triggered.

And golden age means more production which means, yes that's right, MORE Jaguar/Impi warriors!

Which means they are, of all the unique units, assuming the civilization is in a situation allowing it to engage in combat, the unique unit most likely to spawn the first great leader in the game.
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