New units: militia and guerrilla

Seele07 · Dec 22nd 2016, 5:08am

In many states of the world there also militia and guerrilla troops. Theese troops are not so strong against tanks, aircrafts and helicopters.

This units can recruit in all provinzes without a special building. If you lost your city you can mobilizate also in normal porvinzes

Militia: militia can conquer provinzes

no research
costs 700 components, 1400 Manpower, 100 electrics 1000 Money
daily upkeep: 50 supplies, 20 components, 50 fuel, 50 Money
time: 1 day 12 h

attack: 1 against Infantry; 0,5 against tanks; 0,5 against buildings

defense: 2 against infantry; 0,5 against tanks; 0 against aircrafts 0,5 against helicopter

Terrain and speed like the normal infantry level 1
Hitpoints: 10

Guerrilla: hidden unit

research costs: 1500 Supplies, 1000 rare materials; 1500 money from day 5
costs 1000 components, 1200 Manpower, 150 electrics, 1100 Money
daily upkeep: 70 supplies, 30 components, 50 fuel, 60 Money
2 days 12 h

attack: 3,5 against Infantry; 0,5 against tanks; 0,5 against buildings

defense: 1 against infantry; 0,5 against tanks; 0 against aircrafts; 0,3 against helicopter

Terrain and speed like special forces level 1
Hitpoints: 10

Germanico · Dec 23rd 2016, 1:59am

Thanks Seele, will take this into our backlog and see how it fits.

We got some ideas for new units but first want to balance the game out of beta before going there.

But Guerrillas and Militias are some good ideas which lend itself nicely to the scenario.

//Germanico

Seele07 · Dec 23rd 2016, 8:41am

Then you can create some failed states like Afganistan or some african states, where these troops often used.

Germanico · Dec 23rd 2016, 10:24am

We had some early designs for this but due to the time of 6 months we had to postpone these ideas.
Possibly we will pick them up later for a real feature update - cause they need special features to make them work new and interestingly.

//Germanico

IshXIII · Dec 24th 2016, 3:55pm

militias I would not be so interested in, unless a very cheap unit to sue as a standing army. (especially on manpower, as the only defensive unit that has cheap mp atm is towed artillery, and they do not defend well without 2-3 infantry stuck to them besides, need atleast 3 towed arties to make a good enough impact)
Guerrillas however, to use especially in rain forest type enviroments like how most of asia and brasil are, now that would be bloody amazing. Yeah great idea!

Seele07 · Dec 24th 2016, 4:03pm

The militia is the last possibility to conquer a province, if you lost your citys, because this unit you can mobilizate in all provinces.
And if you dont conquer all provinzes of annother state, this state can mobilizate units against you.

DxC · Dec 24th 2016, 4:10pm

Other units could be good but right now there are a ton of balancing issues as it is. I say we stick to fixing what we got.

Germanico · Dec 26th 2016, 2:40pm

I wouldn't call it a ton - just the usual balancing issues any early online game has. This launch has gone very smooth so far.
Having factions aka. Doctrines will ensure we never run out of balancing in the months ahead.
That's actually part of the fun as a game designer...

//Germanico

DxC · Dec 26th 2016, 3:13pm

I agree. There are not an unusual amount of balancing issue; just meant that it will take some time to get what we have streamlined and that is more important than adding new stuff.

IshXIII · Dec 26th 2016, 10:03pm

I agree, fixing everything and have the game run a best as one can, then adding stuff, well it wont only make dev´s jobs easier, it will also help stabilize the player/customer pool. Then one can add new stuff and have it function 100% immediately with no haunting issues.

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