Lords Version 6.0 Units

Purpose      The purpose of this page is to explain the V6 changes to unit types, and the details of conversion of V5 units to V6 units. Introduction      The V6 UBC (Unit Build Chart) contains significant changes from V5. In specific, many unit types are eliminated, artillery units now use "g" (for gunpowder or gunnery) rather than "a" (for artillery), and a few new unit types have been introduced.      Below are the details of the unit list changes. Only new basic V6 units appear in the "Added" column. Optional units will be discussed elsewhere.      Unit types unique to Lords4 are in red.      In Lords4 some units can be built at earlier or later TL than standard for V6 since I'm trying to keep the campaign historical. Lords4 considers TL6 the 1200s (Medieval), TL7 the 1300s (Late Medieval), and TL8 the 1400s (early Renaissance).      Footnotes give explanations of differences from V6.

Unit Type	Culture	Removed	Added
Cavalry	All	XIC, EC and HC
	Barbarian & Seafaring	also HEC
	Seafaring & Civilized	also XEC
Infantry	All	XII, EI and HI	CI (Crossbow Inf) at TL 6 AI (Arquebus Inf) at TL 8
	Nomadic & Pre-Columbian	also HEI
Artillery	All	all "A" type units	XBG (Light Bombard) at TL 7 3 BG (Bombard) at TL 8
Warhips	All	EW, HEW, HW, W, XEW & all "G" type units 1	W (Caravel) at TL 7 CW (Carrack) at TL 8
	Renaissance, Navigation 4+		VW (Corvette) at TL 8 EW (Galleon) at TL 8
Transports	All	HT, T, and XXT 2	CT (Cog) at TL 6 T (Transport) at TL 8

Notes: 1 can't use G ("galley") anymore since V6 gunpowder artillery uses that. The V6 UBC uses R for "rowed". 2 the XXT unit (which had 1 cargo space) is being removed since in V6 the XT units have only 1 cargo space, making the XXT redundant now. 3 this size was carried by Caravels and later (and in greater numbers) by Carracks. Turn 65 Conversion      Lords4 will restart with all positions' units converted from V5 to V6 units. Below are the details of the conversion. Gold generated will be added to the position's "Saved Gold". Gold required will be subtracted (no position went negative).      Units unique to Lords4 are in red.

Unit types not listed are unchanged.

Old Unit	New Unit	Notes
EC	2 C	All
HC	C +1gp	All
HEC	2 C +1gp	Barbarian & Seafaring only
XEC	2 XC +1gp	Seafaring & Civilized only
EI	2 I	All
HI	I +1gp	All
HEI	2 I +1gp	Nomadic & Pre-Columbian only
XA	XBG	All
EW	2 XW +2gp	2W -2gp if TL7+
HEW	2 XW +3gp	2W -1gp if TL7+
HW	XW +2gp	W if TL7+
W	XW +1gp	W -1gp if TL7+
XEW	2 XW +1gp	All
HT	CT +1gp	All
T	CT	All
XXT	XT -1gp	All
XG	XW -1gp	All
G	XW	All

Version 2.0 - December 2007