I am no longer attached to grenadiers for my missing link. They were elite units that lobbed grenades and were used to assault fortifications, not exactly something an archer or a machine gun unit would do. Grenadiers would have to lose their ability to melee attack if they were to be in the ranged tree, so this wouldn't work. It would make more sense for them to be an elite melee unit.
Lord Olleus: I like your ideas for the two melee trees! Elite and standard. Now we just need an irregular/support tree. Skirmishers would fit quite well there.
The archers to machine gun tree is too awkward for me. Weak combat 2-hex ranged units upgrading to strong 1-hex ranged units is rather odd and really doesn't flow. It makes it even harder to find a missing link. I would like to see a unit that losses its 2-hex ranged attack but has an increase in its combat value (but no melee attack). Skirmishers could fit this role as long as they aren't given a bunch of promotions or abilities that seem out of place in the tree. Extra movement, hit and run, bonus in rough terrain, etc. Everything they logically should have they can't have if they are the missing link. I'm really scratching my head on this one.
Ghenjikhan: Gattling guns have movement 3? That dosen't seem correct...
Lord Olleus: I like your ideas for the two melee trees! Elite and standard. Now we just need an irregular/support tree. Skirmishers would fit quite well there.
The archers to machine gun tree is too awkward for me. Weak combat 2-hex ranged units upgrading to strong 1-hex ranged units is rather odd and really doesn't flow. It makes it even harder to find a missing link. I would like to see a unit that losses its 2-hex ranged attack but has an increase in its combat value (but no melee attack). Skirmishers could fit this role as long as they aren't given a bunch of promotions or abilities that seem out of place in the tree. Extra movement, hit and run, bonus in rough terrain, etc. Everything they logically should have they can't have if they are the missing link. I'm really scratching my head on this one.
Ghenjikhan: Gattling guns have movement 3? That dosen't seem correct...