CIVILIZATION 4 LEADER TRAITS FREE

Very powerful trait - every Cottage near rivers, coastal tiles, watermills or windmills is generating extra commerce. +1 to commerce on titles already generating at least 2 commerce. The former is only useful in coastal cities but the latter is built in every city and helps a lot in city growth. Helps in making your cities even bigger - works like extra aqueduct. Nice, especially on higher difficulty levels, when there is less 'free' health in all your cities. Halved costs of Theatre and Colloseum helps in keeping order in cites, and make a possible to build very quickly Theatre in every just build or conquered city - helping in even faster culture development of new cities. If you used it well, however, you will have a serious advantage for the rest of game. In medium and late phases of the game it becomes much less useful. This gives a huge advantage especially in first 50 turns, greatly helping in securing resources and land-grabbing. All your cities quickly expand borders (five turns into first culture radius grown, 40 into next stage) and fast received a defense bonus - without any other investments (monuments, Stonehenge Wonder, religion). Halved costs of Barracks and Drydocks are nice addition that helps more in receiving additional experience. And what's also very important - combat I gives (after earning 2 XP) instant access to some very useful promotions from the start (like cover, shock, medic) and significantly helps accessing more advanced promotions ( march, commando)

CIVILIZATION 4 LEADER TRAITS FREE

But you have to remember that is a free promotion - so it means that next promotion will be at 2XP, next 5XP and so on. The combat 1 promotions don't look very powerful - it's only +10% to STR. Perfect for warmongers even if this promotion is received only by some of your units (only melee and gunpowder). However, all give significant advantages if used correctly.ДЇree combat I promotion for all melee and gunpowder units The traits are not equal - some of them are more powerful in early-game (Creative), others are more useful in specific situations (Organized), but most are helpful from start to end. The traits have the most significant influence on gameplay - other bonuses are rather limited - starting technologies are only important in first 100 turns, UU - has usually rather short time of usefulness (however - it's sometimes can be enough to significantly alter the course of play). There are 26 leaders in game - every one has his unique combinations of traits, technologies and UU.

Civilization 4 leader traits