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MOD for more game balance: UNITS AND BUILDINGS stats

Even if the Readme is on an other location, the following should be read (at least the bold words).

Also this mod is a rather personal attempt at addressing balance issues the two of us ( nonsinn&Stellar) experienced and if you as player do not feel that units such as assault guns, rocket launchers, infantry, infiltrators, tanks ( and many others) are less used than you would want to use them because units such as missile crawlers, transport aircraft, Mobile anti aircraft and missile launchers are over used/powered (and hard to fight without similar units with better gold/research upgrades) then you may not find this mod required at all. We are introducing some 'new' units and capabilities but these are largely experimental and their purpose would ultimately be to allow the original units to become effective&efficient units on the battlefield.

Just as draft and maybe on day in future… :)

latest dev. version:

• v3a2

UNITS

Air Units

air transport (0 1) ✔

• -4 armor ( 0 armor)
• -4 speed ( 14 speed)
• -1 capacity
• -3 cost (15 cost)

AWACS (0 8) ✔

• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• +6 Cost( 24cost)
• +4 scan (16 scan)
• -4 speed (14 speed)
• -2 hp ( 16 hp) ✔

⇒ ( weaker but with better base scan and thus 2 more construction turns )

Fighter (0 16) ✔

• +2 attack (18 attack)
• +4 speed ( 28 speed)
• +4 hp ( 16 hp)
• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• -3 cost (21) (as long as we need 2 shot to destroy a heavy transport…)

⇒ ( allows destruction of both air transports and AWACS with a single shot and more mobility for better late game base defense)

⇒ ( additional changes to balance fighter vs fighter combat)

Ground attack aircraft

nothing right now

HeavyAirTransport (0 36) (NEW UNIT) ✔

(last use in v3a1)

Military Transport Plane (MTP) (0 36) (NEW UNIT) (since v3a2) ✔

• -6 speed (12 speed)
• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• +3 cost (21 cost)
• +2 hp ( 20 hp)
• able to transport G[m]U (ground-[military]-units) (but no humans) (since v3a2)

everything else like normal Airtransport

GU (Ground units)

Infantry (0 18) ✔

• +14 attack (30)
• -2 armor (0)
• -2 ammo (2) (v3a2 ✔)
• -x hp (7) (since v3a1 = 6 because of rl adjustment)
• +1 speed ( 6 speed) TESTME ⇒ works ✔
• 2 movepoint for hor/vert on ground
• 3 movepoint for hor/vert on coast
• +x scan (6) (since v3a1 = 5)
• +x range (4)
• therefore move+fire

Infiltrator (commando) (0 13)

• +x range (6 range )sniper rifles are not heavy right? ✔ (since v3a1 = 5)
• +x scan (5 scan) can see and attack infantry before they can return fire or see infiltrator ✔
• -x cost (5) (so you need 5 turns to build) ✔

Rocket launcher (cluster) ✔

• +1 range ( 9 range)
• [+6 cost ( 30 cost) really?] maybe.... not yet ✘
• +1 attack ( 16 attack ) cluster-damage (see link below) (v3a1 = 14 attack)
• -8 hp ( 16 hp)
• +2 armor ( 6 armor) not yet ✘

scanner (0 26) ✔

• -2 scan ( 12 scan)
• -1 speed ( 6 speed)

⇒ (slightly slower, perhaps even slower is better, with more defensive scan usage in mind and will also make it harder to keep them upgraded to same level as missile crawlers; aggressive missile crawler usage will be more difficult)

Supply(0 34) ✔, gold(0 33) ✔ and Fuel (0 35) ✔ truck

• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• -x hp (14 hp for all of these)
• -3 cost( 9 cost)
• -35 capacity for supply truck {15 capacity}
  • supplying combat units needn't many materials
• it's cheaper now
• and for all other 'in-base' stuff you can use… other things… :)

Repair unit (0 25) ✔

• -3 cost( 12 cost)
• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• -6 hp ( 14 hp)

Bulldozer (0 10) ✔

• -3 cost( 12 cost)
• -2 armor ( 2 armor)
• +1 speed (8)

⇒ ( to encourage their use earlier on)

crawler (missle) (0 21)

Q: "missle"? A: don't ask me… it's the dir-name… but right… should be missile ^^ - maybe i'll fix this too…

• -6 attack ( 16 attack) (v3a2 ✔)
• -10 hp (14 hp) (v3a2 ✔) (together with armor of 4 is it still cheaper as upgradeing the turrets attack)
• -6 cost (30)
• -4 scan (0)
• +1 range (12)

Tank (0 32) ✔

• +2 attack (18 attack ) ✔
  • This higher attack value allows it to still have some use against gun turrets with 14 armor without giving it too much hitting power against assault guns and artillery turrets
• +2 armor (12 armor )
• +2 human capacity ✔
• +8 hp (32 hp)✔
• -1 range (v3a2) (⇒ scan changed too) (since v3a2) ✔
  • needed a lower range as the infantry to force players to use other attack units as protection…
  • and while a range increase of infantry range would be tooooo strong… )

close to gunship settings therefore mark it as 'GMU' to disallow air transport with default air transport so you have to use (weaker) seatransports or heavy air transport for this unit

Constructor (0 19) ✔

• overweight unit (removed with v3a2)
• +2 armor (8 armor)
• +2 hp (26 hp)
• moving though water needs +0.5 speedpoints

Mobile anti aircraft✔

• -1 Range ( 6 range) (undone since v3a2)
• -1 Speed ( 6 speed)
• -6 hp (18 hp)

Assault gun (0 7) ✔

• +4 Attack (22 attack)
• -2 speed (10speed)
  • To prevent assault guns from being immune to vastly superior numbers of tanks; tanks will be able to catch up even if this comes with many tank losses ( may have to further adjust to 8 speed depending on testing)
• +4 armor ( 8 armor)
  • ( the armor adjustment allows for a more robust unit that can be upgraded to survive more than 2 missile crawler attacks without making it impossible for this unit to be used aggressively against missile launchers which will take 2.5 attacks to destroy it.
• -4 hitpoint ( 20 hitpoints)
  • Assault guns should be able to run down missile crawlers but if the missile crawlers have protection from tanks this should sufficiently slow them down to result in mutual destruction (much still depends on the use of transports thought)

scout (0 27) ✔

• -2 armor ( 2 armor) ( missile crawler can still kill it with one shot)
• +2 or +4 speed ( 14 'normal' or 16 'clan' speed)

APC (0 6)

• -4 HP (20)
• +2 armor (10)

⇒ APC get +1 armor for each armor-research but won't be overpowerd with hp

GMU (ground-military-units)

We gave the following units this special 'unit-type' ⇒ if you wanna air-transport it, you need an MTP!

• tank (tank)
• AG (assault gun)
• MC (missile crawler)
• RL (rocket launcher)

SEA UNITS

Sea transport (0 29) ✔

• (reduce hitpoints and armor (slighly better version for crimson path and ahead version for Musashi)
• able to transport overweight units
• -6 hp (26 hp)
• -2 armor (10 armor)

Sea (or land) minelayer

• FIXME place explosive stuff on costline

Defense Buildings

Artillery (1 16) ✔

• +4 attack ( 22 attack) (same reason as the AG) ✔
• -4 cost ( 12 cost) ✔
• +1 armor ( 10 armor) ✔
• ( 24 hp) ✔

Gun turret (1 18) ✔

• +1 attack ( 17 attack) (1 less than the tank)
• +2 armor ( 14 armor) (2 higher as the tank)
• -2 cost ( 6 cost)
• +8 hp (32 hp)✔ (same as tank)

missile launcher (turret) (1 17) ✔

• -12 attack ( 16 attack) ⇐ have to be changed in the data.xml (v3a1 ✔)
  • after some talks and tests -> decided to use 16 attack - can still be upgraded to a dangerous weapon anyways…
  • (stellar and nonsinn really like this weapon meanwhile)
• -10 cost ( 14 cost) ✔
• -2 armor ( 4 armor)
• +2 hp (26)
• +3 range (14) ✔

Anti aircraft (1 15) ✔

• -2 Cost ( 10 cost)
• +2 Attack ( 18 attack)

other buildings:

Radar (1 26) ✔

• +2 scan (20 Scan)
  • von griffins org. +6 — 24 highest value in table ⇒ test value 26 DONE
  • 7k org. +2 — 22 not in table ⇒ test value DONE
    • Result:

      • values not given ⇒ not upgradable by credits/gold

      • ⇒ 20 new default, 24 for 7k and 24 + special upgrade for von griffin (or selfmade table…)

• +2 cost ( 20 cost)
• ⇒ ( fixed scan should be powerful and will aid defenders ⇒ more useful
• ⇒ (+2 scan-table-fix vs. current solution FIXME / TESTME)

connectors (1 4) ✔

• -6 armor ( 2 armor)
• -4 hp (10 hp) (since v3a1 = 4hp)
• -1 scan (0 scan) (they haven't got eyes…)
  • Talked about and:
    • hp+armor should be ≤ 12 (attack of rocket launcher would destroy a 3×3 square)
    • hp+armor should be < attack of infiltrators -> inf. get a nice role in this game (as sabotage -> attack connectors)
  • (musashi clan advantage! ⇒ hp+armor should be > default attack of inf.)

Concrete Block (1 2) (v3a1) ✔

• +2 armor (18)
• -1 scan (0)
• this building should 'stop enemy movement' now it is able to do so

Barracks (1 1) (v3a2)

• changed to a Bunker.
• no: self-repair, self-destroy, repair or rearm function
• its a bit cheaper as the depot
• ARGH! won't work