VAGABOND: Comments

TABLE MANUAL & WALKTHROUGH

STRATEGY

Promotions

Promotions are available for units which receive experience in training (barracks, drydock, pentagon, vassalage, theocracy, red cross) or combat. First promotion is available with 2 XP, next is 5 XP, 10 XP, 17 XP and so on.
General promotions are useful against all types of units also after upgrades. And even if specific promotions (Shock, Cover, Formation, Charge, Amphibious) could mean the same as 0 - 2.5 X combat promotions, it?s better to produce specific units with pre-promotions.

Generel Promotions:
Melee: Combat I, Medic I, City Raidar I, Combat II, City Raidar II-III, Combat III-V.
Archery: City Garrison I-III, Drill I-II, Combat I, Medic I, Combat II-V.
Mounted: Combat I, Medic I, Pinch, Combat II-III, Blitz, Combat V, Commando.
Siege: Combat I, Medic I, City Raidar I, Combat II, City Raidar II-III, Combat III-V.
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Gunpowder: (City Garrison I-III), Combat I, Medic I, Combat II-V.
Helicopter: City Garrison I-III, Drill I-II, Combat I, Medic I, Combat II-V.
Armored: (City Raidar I-III,) Barrage I-III, Drill I-II, Combat I-III, Blitz, Combat IV-V, Commando.
Naval: (Barrage I-II, Drill I-II) Combat I, Medic I, Combat II-V.

Millitary Facilities

West Point: To build West Point Millitary training facility later, u need a unit with lots of medals (lvl 5). So when u get to war early keep going, until u got one of such unit and keep it intact until West Point is built.
Build West Point (with Barracks and Drydock) in a coastal city in order to let naval units get the experience bonus too. Capital is best used to build World Wonders fast, so better build West Point in another one.

Aircraft Facility: Aircrafts (except Gunships) doesn?t receive promotions, so use a second city with reasonable productive capabilities to produce aircrafts.

Iron Works & Heroic Epic:
Always build Iron Works in your Capital for the extra +50% Commerce & +50% Shield (speeds construction of World Wonders, especially with Bureacracy civic).
Heroic Epic is great together with West Point, don?t build any other national wonders in that city u plan for millitary productions, unless West Point is built in the Capital, where Iron Works should be: then build Heroic Epic where u plan to build Aircrafts.

Tactics

Nuclear Strategy: With a major vote in the UN u can ban the use of nukes. Else the SDI wonder intercepts 75% of all attacks. Place SAM infantry strategic places. And research ecology to gain health against fallout.

Airports & Continents: Build a couple of Airports to airlift and transport units 1/turn over sea and land to new cities anywhere.

Amphibious sneak attacks: Use amphibious promotion to thin the enemy army - by attacking coastal cities - from safe where before major confrontations.

Diplomacy

If some one declare war on u, it doesn't degrade your connections to other civs like when u declare war simply to capture new cities. Better wait for an opponent to arise or for some civ - u want to co-operate with - asking for help. Then keep the war going to gain promotions and to add a few attractive cities to your civ.

Leaders & Team work

Some countries are better teams than others: As two leaders with the same traits like no anarchy or free melee promotion is of lesser us!