View Poll Results: Conquastidor or Tercio?
Conquastidor 56 90.32%
Tercio 5 8.06%
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Old June 26, 2002, 00:34   #1
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Which had you heard of first, conquastidor or tercio?
Before this intire fanasco of how the conquastidor should be the tercio, which of the two had you heard about?







I myself never heard of the tercio before this...
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Old June 26, 2002, 06:53   #2
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I myself had never heard of the Rider (w/respect to the Chinese) until Civ III came out.

I had never heard of the tercio before this, either, but I think it's a better idea than the conquistador. The conquistador, if they use it, should be something of a scout-type unit. I don't think conquistadors ever fought against Spain's European rivals. (Notably, they did fight against the Aztecs.)

Why don't we ask the Spaniards, actually?
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Old June 26, 2002, 09:47   #3
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At 13 to 0, I think we know why Firaxis went with Conquistidors.
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Old June 26, 2002, 10:06   #4
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I also never heard of the Tercio before this. But curiously enough, the Tercio won the "who should be the Spanish UU ?" poll in the SPANISH Civ3 forum.

Someone said about this matter : "if Europeans had made the game, the American UU would be the cowboy". I don't see why Firaxis should put what everyone has heard about... After all, I didn't hear of the Impi before Civ3 came out.
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Old June 26, 2002, 16:41   #5
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The Conquistador is definitely more well known, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it should be included. I hadn't heard of the tercio until Civ3, but it seems like a legitimate unit.

(About the rider: It sucks as a unit and Firaxis should have been able to come up with something better for the Chinese. You'd think that if a civ has been around for as long as China that they'd have some decent military units )
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Old June 26, 2002, 17:23   #6
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I heard of the Conquistador first, but never considered that to be a UU. It's a name for what they did, not a military unit description.
For China, I would have chosen the Mandarin except that it doesn't fit into the game mechanics.
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Old June 26, 2002, 21:26   #7
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Never heard of tercio until know. Think most people know conquistadors from so many different place. Pretty sure I heard them in some movie too.
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Old June 26, 2002, 23:26   #8
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Never heard of the conquistador until I got into Colonization a year or so back. Then an image of it based on the AOE2 XP Conquistador came to mind (until I read a bit of history about it).

Never heard of the Tercio until it was mentioned in these forums.

I guess that means the Conquistador is the one I heard of more, yet the Tercio is definitely a much better idea.
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Old June 27, 2002, 00:29   #9
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Before reading this thread i would have said to use the conquistador as a UU. But you all changed my mind. Go Tercio Go

euh, What's a Tercio ?
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Old June 27, 2002, 01:40   #10
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THIS is what it is: http://www.geocities.com/ao1617/TercioUK.html

It is the most famous Spanish unit EVER and it dominated the battlefields of that era.

Conquistadores were never a unit at all being just a small gang of gold-hungry thugs who were either murdering Native peoples or killing each other.

Go read the thread on this lower down on this forum for more.

Picking the "Conquistadore" as a UU reduces the game to Fantasy.
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I don't think the Conquistador should be the UU because from what I can tell, it will replace the knight. That's right, another knight replacement.
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it replaces cavalry
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well, actually Firaxis said it was "light" cavalry
so they're debating whether to still let the spanish build regular cavalry...
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No tercio before, just conquistador. But, as Ribannah said, not as a specific military unit. All spaniards in the new world were conquistadores.
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Old June 28, 2002, 20:16   #15
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I think that Civ3 is a game, and thereby fantasy. So I like the Conquistador. I wouldn't mind having a Cowboy either...and I'm an American.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Coracle
THIS is what it is: http://www.geocities.com/ao1617/TercioUK.html

It is the most famous Spanish unit EVER and it dominated the battlefields of that era.

Conquistadores were never a unit at all being just a small gang of gold-hungry thugs who were either murdering Native peoples or killing each other.

Go read the thread on this lower down on this forum for more.

Picking the "Conquistadore" as a UU reduces the game to Fantasy.
You mean that this isn't a fantasy game?

Everything I have done in this game actuallyhappened ?

Wow!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Coracle
THIS is what it is: http://www.geocities.com/ao1617/TercioUK.html

It is the most famous Spanish unit EVER and it dominated the battlefields of that era.

Conquistadores were never a unit at all being just a small gang of gold-hungry thugs who were either murdering Native peoples or killing each other.

Go read the thread on this lower down on this forum for more.

Picking the "Conquistadore" as a UU reduces the game to Fantasy.
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It should be a Tercio, just because a Conquistador UU just doesn't fit into the game mechanics.
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