Civilization III: Conquests is the second expansion pack for Civilization III. It includes seven new Civilizations, five new wonders, two new traits, nine detailed scenarios, and much more. In addition to the civ-specific units, there are several units that everyone can build and there are also a few units that can only be produced by wonders.

Each of the nine scenarios contains its own set of units, with unique stats and abilities. For example, in the WW2 in Pacific scenario, the Japanese have Zero and Kamikaze fighters; and in the Age of Discovery scenario, you will find Colonists and special Treasures units.

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Civilization III: Play the World comes with lots of new units. Each of the eight new Civs has its own special unit. There are also 24 new ruler units for the regicide short game mode. Other new in-game units include a Princess unit for the Capture the Princess short game mode and two units that are available to all Civs: medieval infantry and guerilla.

In addition, there are dozens of new units from the unit packs. There are 17 units in the Medieval Japan unit pack, 12 units in the Pre-historic (Dinosaurs) unit pack, and 24 units in the World War II unit pack.

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Civilization III has 65 Units. While many of these are the same as they were in Civilization II, each of the game's sixteen civilizations now has a special unit that fits in a particular era. When one of your special unit wins a combat against another Civ, a Golden Age will be triggered and will last 20 turns, during which time your cities enjoy increased production and trade. Golden Ages occur only once per game.

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Units are always an important part of a Civilization game. In Civilization 4, instead of having separate attack and defense ratings, the units now have only one strength rating. Instead of having only a few experience levels (ex. Conscript, Regular, Veteran, Elite), now there is a new RPG-style promotions system that allows you to customize your units to make them more unique and more powerful as they gain experience. There are more than 40 promotions in Civ4. Another important change is that lots of units now have bonuses when attacking other unit types, encouraging players to have a diversified military. For example, Axemen have a 50% attack bonus when attacking melee units, and Spearmen receive a 100% bonus when attacking mounted units. These changes make combat much more interesting.

Tip: To print out a hard copy of the units table, we recommend using landscape mode.

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In previous civ games, units have only a few levels: conscript, regular, veteran, and elite. Now in Civ4, there are more than 40 promotions you can give to your units as they gain experience, enabling you to customize your units to make them more specialized and more powerful. Some of the promotions give your units a strength bonus, some give your units a bonus against a certain unit type, some make your units better on certain terrain types, while some give your units special abilities such as using enemy roads, faster healing, amphibious attack, and city raider.

In addition, some promotions (like Morale and Leadership) require the use of a Great General, a unit available in Warlords and Beyond the Sword. By joining a Great General to a unit, these promotions become available.

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The purpose of this article is to cover all aspects of unit healing in Civ4. Although it was written for Vanilla Civ 4, it includes information relevant to the Warlords expansion.

If you accessed this article through the War Academy, it may be worth checking the associated thread for updates.

I welcome any feedback. Please post to direct my attention to anything which is not accurate. Don't hesitate to add any tips you think would benefit the article or make it more comprehensive.

I have included a list of useful tips/observations at the conclusion of the article for your convenience.

The term friendly will be used in this article to describe a civ with whom you are at peace. Allied civs include teammates and civs with a permanent alliance.

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Like most people I have just got the game, and finding one of the biggest difficulties is remembering which units to use against which units in the game during a war.

So instead of endlessly having to go through the guide/civillopedia I thought it might be useful if there was an easy visual aid to hand that split the units into the era they are from and pointed out what they should be used against, and what they should be used for. Hence I did such a visual aid you can print out.