I have always wanted to do some reorganization of the cavalry units and their upgrade paths. Before the Modern Era, I want to have four groups of mounted units:
- Mobile Defense units with speed 2 and NOT having Doesn't Receive Defensive Bonuses.
- Light Mounted units that are cheaper and lower-Strength than Heavy Mounted units.
- Heavy Mounted units that are move 2 and relatively high attack strength.
- Elephant units with speed 1 and high Strength.
Elephant and Heavy Mounted units merge together into Tanks. Mobile Defense units are not part of the main mounted tree; they are part of the main foot troops line. So I came up with a "ladder" for the horse and tank units, arranging them by era (or portions of eras).
This is how I want the ladder to look.
BLUE units don't yet exist, but I will make them.
PURPLE units exist but will be renamed.
Light Heavy
Ancient Chariot Horseman
Classical Horse Archer
Light Cavalry
Medieval
Heavy Cavalry
Knight/Mailed Knight
Renaissance
Lancer
Cuirassier
Industrial
(New) Light Cavalry
Cavalry
Late Industrial
Armored Car
Early Tank
Modern Light Tank Tank/Heavy Tank
Mid-Modern Main Battle Tank
Late Modern Modern Armor
Early Transhuman Stealth Armor Thermobaric Tank
Mid Transhuman Hover Tank Plasma Armor
Final Dreadnought Armor
The idea is this: Light Mounted units upgrade to the next Light Mounted unit (so
Chariot upgrades to
Horse Archer). Heavy Mounted units upgrade to either the next Light Mounted or the next Heavy Mounted (
Horseman upgrades to either
Horse Archer or
Light Cavalry). I'm not completely sure if Light Mounted units should ever be able to upgrade to a Heavy Mounted, especially with Auto-Upgrade turned on. This is the biggest question that I have about this. But in general, this is the plan I want to pursue.
The one unit that I don't know what to do with is the
T-95. I don't even know what this is supposed to be. There are a couple of different Wikipedia articles on various tanks named the T-95, but I don't know which one is the one in-game. It definitely needs a rename to make clear what it is.
I'm not sure whether Helicopters should be a part of this. I definitely want to develop Recon units into a more extensive separate line as well.