Part 120

Explore Civilization V's Part 120, detailing Projects like the Apollo Program and Manhattan Project, and breaking down Ancient Era units including Archers, Hoplites, and more.

This section of the Civilization V guide covers two main categories: Projects and Ancient Era Units.

Projects are special city-based endeavors that require significant hammer investment and specific technologies. They include:

• Apollo Program: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Rocketry. Allows Spaceship Production.
• SS Booster: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Robotics. 3 are required for Spaceship Production.
• SS Cockpit: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Satellites. 1 is required for Spaceship Production.
• SS Engine: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Particle Physics. .
• SS Statis Chamber: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Nanotechnology. .
• The Manhattan Project: Costs 800 Hammers, requires Atomic Theory. Allows construction of Atomic Bombs and Nuclear Missiles.
• Utopia Project: Costs 800 Hammers, requires no specific tech but unlocks after 5 completed Social Policy branches. Allows the Cultural Victory.

Ancient Era Units are the backbone of early warfare. Key concepts explained include:

• No Stacking: Only one unit per hex tile.
• Combat vs. Ranged Combat Strength: Combat strength is for adjacent fights, Ranged Combat Strength is for attacks from more than one hex away.
• Air Combat: Involves evasion (avoiding interception) and interception (ability of anti-air units to engage enemy air units). Air Sweeps can draw enemy engagement.
• City Combat: Mounted and Armoured units have penalties when attacking cities.

Individual Ancient Era units detailed are:

• Archer: 75 Hammers, Combat Type: Archer/Indirect, Tech: Archery. Combat Strength 4, Ranged Combat Strength 6, Range 2, Movement 2. Obsolete by Machinery, upgrades to Crossbowman. Cannot Melee Attack.
• Babylonian Bowman: 75 Hammers, Combat Type: Archer/Indirect, Tech: Archery. Combat Strength 6, Ranged Combat Strength 8, Range 2, Movement 2. Obsolete by Machinery, upgrades to Crossbowman. Cannot Melee Attack. Unique to Babylon, stronger than normal archers.
• Brute: 20 Hammers, Combat Type: Melee/Direct, Tech: None. Combat Strength 6, Movement 2. Barbarian unit only.
• Chariot Archer: 70 Hammers, Requires Horses, Combat Type: Mounted/Archer-Indirect, Tech: The Wheel. Combat Strength 3, Ranged Combat Strength 6, Range 2, Movement 4. Obsolete by Chivalry, upgrades to Knight. Has penalties like No Defensive Bonus and Rough Terrain Penalty.
• Galley: 50 Hammers, Combat Type: Naval, Tech: None. Combat Strength 5, Ranged Combat Strength 3, Range 2, Movement 3. Barbarian naval unit. Cannot Melee, Cannot enter Ocean Tiles.
• Hoplite: 70 Hammers, Combat Type: Pike/Direct, Tech: Bronze Working. Combat Strength 9, Movement 2. Strong against Mounted units.