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Civilization II Hints

Leonardo's Workshop

  • Cost: 400 Shields

    Prerequisite: Invention

    Effect: Whenever one of your units becomes obsolete due to the discovery of a new technology, it is immediately replaced by an equivalent unit, free of charge.

    Effects expire with the discovery of Automobile.

    What can you write about a Wonder that everyone knows is really good? Of course there is the "Warriors turn into Musketeers" trick but other things get overlooked. Triremes changing to Destroyers and Settlers to Engineers are just a few of the perks offered by this Wonder. Build it if you have the Shields or even if you don't, it pays you back in the long run.