(7-07) Maori Warrior as Scout Replacement

[pineappledan]

Current Maori Warrior (Longswordsman)
22 CS
cheaper
Does not require Iron
Unlocks at Chivalry
Haka War Dance (-15% CS to adjacent enemy units)

Proposal Maori Warrior (Scout)
Unlocks at Sailing
90
13CS (+3)
No Movement Penalties
Treasure Hunter
Amphibious
Haka War Dance (-15% CS to adjacent enemy units)

Rationale:
I find I do not use Maori Warriors much in their current form. They aren't very strong, and Polynesia doesn't war much in Medieval.
In 4UC, Polynesia has a unique scout and it is much more useful. This proposal would be to essentially move that unique scout into the main mod.
A more powerful scout is very useful for Polynesia, who has a longer scouting and settling phase than other civs because of their access to deep ocean. A stronger scout is useful, because they can clear barbs for settlement spots on distant islands better.
We don't have a unique Scout unit, so this is also more unique. This would unstack Polynesia from Japan (Samurai)

 

[rkkn]

22 CS (+1)

+0. base longsword is also 22
it also costs less

 

[pineappledan]

corrected

 

[Tekamthi]

Proposal Maori Warrior (Scout)
Unlocks at Sailing
90
13CS (+3)
No Movement Penalties
Treasure Hunter
Amphibious
Haka War Dance (-15% CS to adjacent enemy units)

iirc this is -1 CS from the MUC koa? or is it +1?

I think the specific plague ability & barb bonus of the koa is situationally-OP, this looks to be a nice step-back -- maybe a flat cost embark and/or disembark?

No Movement Penalties

what does this mean? immune from movement debuff plagues? as a scout i presume it would get the default ignore terrain cost...

 

[Rekk]

iirc this is -1 CS from the MUC koa? or is it +1?

I think the specific plague ability & barb bonus of the koa is situationally-OP, this looks to be a nice step-back -- maybe a flat cost embark and/or disembark?


what does this mean? immune from movement debuff plagues? as a scout i presume it would get the default ignore terrain cost...

Anything not underlined is what Scout gets naturally.

 

[Tekamthi]

well the only thing i might add then is a possible embark/disembark flat cost -- would just make them that much better on both explore and combat roles.

I will vote for this one regardless -- a unique scout for polynesia is deceptively powerful on most map types with decent naval content

 

[Civ459]

How about adding a Migration promotion(34UC Hunnic Tarkhan)?

This will make Polynesia's Scout more special and useful. Especially, we can make better use of Polynesia's UA.

 

[pineappledan]

Settlers and scouts already move the same speed, both on land and embarked. Also that would be new code.

edit: re: the frogman suggestion, it's a possibility but I don't like undermining Denmark like that.

 

[pineappledan]

I can sponsor

 

[azum4roll]

What UnitAITypes will it have?

 

[pineappledan]

it will be unit AI scout.