Fan-made Card depicting the Work Boat Unit from Civ5
Game Info
Naval civilian unit.
- Abilities:
- Creates Improvements on water resources (This action consumes the unit.)
Strategy
The Work Boat is a naval unit, which means that it can only be constructed in coastal cities. It can be used to improve water resources such as Fish, Whales, Pearls, and Oil. The Work Boat is consumed when it constructs the improvement.
Work Boats can only be used once. So different from workers you need several to make more than one buildings in the ocean.
Work Boats can't enter ocean hexes until Astronomy is discovered. Work Boats cannot engage in combat and are immediately destroyed if an enemy enters their tile, so defend them if there's danger nearby.
Historical Info
The sea can provide much to a civilization. This can range from protein in the form of seafood to energy - from whale or from oil. For all of human history, courageous men and women have been going to sea in boats to harvest the sea's bounty. Doubtless they will continue to do so until the end of time, "when the sea shall give up her dead."