The makers of the game also did a great job in the area of military units. Each civilization has their own distinctive units. Some units can mount or dismount horses. You get the choice as to whether you will buy or steal horses for your men. The concept is still the same.
Every single unit is cool, all the way from the large cannons to the gunslinger.
These are units you can really care about, units who s names you can remember. Another area I also found quite impressive was the way gold is gathered. Your workers mine gold from inside a mountainside and store them in the gold warehouses. Of course if this warehouse is destroyed, the player loses all the gold within. Gold warehouses are also an open target for robbery.