DoubleRD77 - England will not be in the game.......however Great Britain will be
sangeli - for units, its still a work-in-progress, but here's a rough list I can make off the top of my head and some notes........., and going back and reading previous post in the old thread, and some more research .........
***Note that any units past Riflemen have been removed, in fact the entire modern age has been completely removed without a trace. All Unique Units, except for the ones pertaining to civs still in the mod have been removed. They will be modified/removed eventually. All older age units are still there, but just to give the tech tree some background, and for some natives, and barbarians.
***Note that lots of the new units will have flavor, for example, instead of having "Union Cavalry" and "Confederate Cavalry", there will only be "Cavalry", yet they will have correct uniforms for each nation. Both Union and Confederates will have many unique units though, most of which have not been completely decided.
Remember this is still a rough version, not everything has been worked out, and I'm up for suggestions.
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Special Units:
Lieutenant - similar to Great General, except can be built (won't spawn with XP), but only in a city with a military academy.
Camp - Just like the mongol camp unit (from the fireaxis scenario), except slightly modified. (so far only Sioux uses it; it replaces settler as free unit)
Balloon - A recon unit... similar to the airship, but without its attack capabilities.
Guerrilla - a spy-like unit, that can also attack and wreak havoc.
Bushwacker - Confederate UU, which replaces the Guerrilla.
Jayhawker - Union UU, which replaces the Guerrilla.
Field Surgeon - helps heal units nearby, requires hospital and undecided tech(s).
***All other stuff like workers, settlers ect. are still there. Although, both will cost more, and building settlers will be extremely limited if not disabled. Also the "Prophet" and "Great Prophet" have been changed to "Ideologist" and "Great Ideologist", respectively. All other citizens are the same.
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Naval Units:
Monitor - unique unit for the Union. Replaces ironclad.
3 (Flavored) Galleon's - 1 each for Spain, Great Britain, and France.
Hospital Ship - a river steamboat converted for military/hospital use.
Early Submarine - similar to that of the Confederate,
H. L. Hunley.
Also stuff like privateers, frigates, ect. will still be there.
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Infantry Units:
Zouaves - mainly for France, but it'll be possible for other countries to get them.
Brunswick Rifleman - uses muzzle loading, percussion rifle. Imported from England.
Henry Rifleman - uses lever-action, tubular magazine breech-loading rifle.
Fayetteville Rifleman - uses a 2 banded rifled musket of rifle length. Confederate Unique Unit. Replaces the "55' Springfield Rifleman".
Sharpshooter - uses a
Sharps Rifle (no joke
), what they call a falling block rifle, which could use a standard percussion cap, and had an advanced pellet prime feed, and breech loading mechanism, which made it one of the most lethal rifle's of its day, not to mention one of the easiest to operate on horseback. Used extensively by the U.S. Army Sharpshooters and Cavlarymen, and anyone who could get their hands on one.
Hall Rifleman - uses a single-shot breech loading rifle, which used a falling breech and could use either a flint lock or percussion cap system.
Spencer Rifleman - uses a manually operated lever-action, repeating rifle fed from a tube magazine with cartridges.
55' Springfield Rifleman - uses a Rifle-Musket, with a unique tape primer, which would be done away with on the 1861 model.
61' Springfield Rifleman - a rifled musket, and the most widely used weapon by the Union in the civil war, favored for its range, accuracy, and reliability.
63' Springfield Rifleman - essentially the same as 1861 model, with some minor adjustments.
68' Springfield Rifleman - uses the trapdoor breechblock design developed by Erskine S. Allin.
Gatling Gun - a gun with multiple firing pins and breeches connected to multiple rotating barrels.
Grenadier - same name (for now), but slightly different than old version, uses a
Ketchum Grenade....
Enfield Rifleman - uses the
1853 Enfield Rifle, popular on both sides, imported from England.
and maybe just maybe the
73' Springfield Rifleman - the first standard-issued breech-loading rifle for the United States Army.
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Mounted Units:
Dragoons - the traditional name for a soldier trained to fight on foot but who transports himself on horseback.
Sharps Cavalry - uses a Sharps Carbine (see above, Sharps Rifle). Fights mounted instead of dismounting for combat.
Spencer Cavalry - uses a Spencer Carbine (see above, Spencer Rifle). Similar to Sharps Cavalry, slightly different values (undecided).
Mounted Infantry - soldiers who rode horses instead of marching, but actually fought on foot with rifles. Another improvement of the Dragoon, but more advanced, with better weaponry.
Partisan Ranger - similar to the guerrilla unit(s) except mounted (faster).
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Supply Units:
Limber - two wheeled horse carriage that carried a war chest, along
with a gun and sometimes a caisson.
Caisson - two wheeled horse carriage that carried ammunition and a spare wheel.
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Field Artillery Units:
10lb Parrot Rifle - a type of muzzle loading rifled-bore artillery. Made of iron.
10lb Brooke Rifle - the Confederate version of the Parrot Rifle, essentially the same.
20lb Parrot Rifle - larger version.
20lb Brooke Rifle - larger version.
57' 12lb Napoleon - made of bronze.
12lb Howitzer - shorter barrel and higher trajectory cannon. made of bronze.
24lb Howitzer - larger version.
Ordinance Rifle - the most widely used rifled gun during the war, made of iron.
12lb Whitworth Rifle - rare during the war, but was a pre-cursor to modern artillery, as it was breech loading, and had the greatest distance of any gun used in the war, as well as exceptional accuracy.
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Siege Artillery Units:
coming soon...
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perhaps more adjustments/additions to come, I'm open for suggestions/comments...
Shiggs
