Need some ideas for a 2nd UU

If you want a 'united' HRE, Carolingian Milites (or simply milites) would would work well. They carved out Charlemagnes empire. Although the HRE did go downhill from there. Fighting the Pope is never a good thing.
 
How about Askari or Oromo Cavalry or Shewans for Ethiopia?
I really want something from their war with Italy.
 
If you want war with Italy, Askaris would work. They were European-equiped troops. I would stay away from Italy age stuff, as the Ethiopians lost badly. I would include stuff from the Kingdom of Axum era.
 
Ajidica said:
If you want war with Italy, Askaris would work. They were European-equiped troops. I would stay away from Italy age stuff, as the Ethiopians lost badly. I would include stuff from the Kingdom of Axum era.
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I meant the first war with Italy, not the second. In the first the Ethiopians won a decisive victory. In the second, they came under the control of Mussolini.
 
Oh, I really don't know much on colonial Africa. Can't help you there.
 
Oromo Cavalry would be really good as a Knight replacement, with maybe the current Musketman replacement being named Tigrean Gunman, or something like that, and I'd much favor seeing Oromo Cavalry over anything else. I can't really think of anything for the modern age, since the first Italo-Ethiopian War was more lost by the Italians than won by the Ethiopians, and the second was just a lopsided defeat. Maybe a Guerilla-type Infantry replacement (Shifta might be a good name) to represent the resistance against Italian occupation.
 
for the french or the confedarcy you could use French 75 they were quick firing weapons so you could make them start with blitz
 
anonymous4402 said:
Oromo Cavalry would be really good as a Knight replacement, with maybe the current Musketman replacement being named Tigrean Gunman, or something like that, and I'd much favor seeing Oromo Cavalry over anything else. I can't really think of anything for the modern age, since the first Italo-Ethiopian War was more lost by the Italians than won by the Ethiopians, and the second was just a lopsided defeat. Maybe a Guerilla-type Infantry replacement (Shifta might be a good name) to represent the resistance against Italian occupation.
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I think i might rename the existing uu to Shewan and make a new Oromo Cavalry.
 
The Celts are so easy. There are just so many to pick from. You could have Scots Galloglass or Redshanks (mercenary axemen), or the Scottish Highlander regiments (muskets or rifles or even infantry, depending on what era you want to focus on - they were renowned in all those periods), or you could have Claymore swordsmen or Welsh longbows or ... yeah, tons of stuff there.

For the Inca, I've always been puzzled why their UU is a mere warrior. Of all the groups encountered in the New World by early explorers, the Inca alone used bronze. They also used long pikes and pole-arms, and were particularly fond of the mace. That's what the Incan warrior in the game actually seems to have, is a mace (the maceman in the game is wielding a flail, not a mace!)

So I'd be thinking a pike, a maceman, or possibly a slinger for the Inca. Chasqui, btw, were just messengers, part of the Incan "postal service", not a military profession.

I think the Iroqouis should have UUs that represent two different eras of Iroqouian warfare. The pre-columbian era, which should probably be some sort of melee troop class, and based on the ball-headed warclub such as depicted here:

http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/ObjView/5273.jpg

The other kind should be an Iroqouis shooter/musket. In the wake of European arrival, the Iroquois were able to obtain a great many guns, more so than most other native groups of the northeast. The other groups were mostly allied with the French, and the French wanted to keep guns out of the hands of pagan groups and restricted sales to converted Indians only (and limited those sales, in order to keep them from selling their arms to pagans). The Iroqouis made allies with the Dutch and the English, who just sold them as many guns as they could afford to buy. The result was that the heavily armed Iroqouis, already feared by other native groups of the Northeast, managed to take control of the fur trading routes to the interior and were exerting their military influence as far west as Michigan, controlling the shores of the entire Great Lakes basin from their tiny homeland in upstate New York.
 
For the Confederates, I'd suggest a Cavalry unit rather than an Artillery unit. The highest status units in the Union army were artillery, but for the Confederates it was Cavalry. Perhaps something invoking the famous Confederate raiders like John Hunt Morgan, "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler, John S. Mosby and of course Nathan Bedford Forrest (and others - e.g. John S. Marmaduke, Joseph O. Shelby, Harry W. Gilmor, etc...). Although most of the raids were actually conducted by regular Cavalry, some (including Mosby's outfit) were "Partisan Rangers" and that's the name I'd use for the UU. I'd suggest a speed advantage over regular cavalry so as 'to git thar fust with the most men'" (as Forrest famously said).
 
Confederate Partisan Rangers it is then. I'll give them the Mobility promo and a small (10-15%) bonus against rifles or gunpowder units.
 
Boer Commandos are Afrikaner, not Dutch. By the time of the Anglo-Boer War, Afrikaners were already a seperate nation to the Dutch, and the Boers were an offshoot of that.

However, if you want to keep the Commandos (a badass unit if ever there were one, and I like the idea of free Commando promotions), you could also give that civ a unique Cannon-type unit, as the Boer forces had access to the latest in German field artillery. A Cannon with a bonus to bombardment damage sounds about right.
 
What are you doing for America?
I think the Rough Rider would be a much better UU than the Navy Seal. It is earlier, so would have more uses. It could be a replacement for Calvary, and one of its changes could be a lower production than normal Calvary. It could also have a better hill attack bonus and a no penalty promotion for attack from sea and across rivers.
 
America gets the Minuteman, a UU focused more on defense than offense, which would make them a [female dog] to attack.

They'll be first-strike immune (they were called "minutemen" because they could get ready in a minute), and have a city defense bonus.
 
mechaerik said:
How's this unit?
foederati.jpg


I thought about the scales for a while and used the clone-stamp tool to copy the horses's armor onto the foederati's dds file.
For the button, i opened the CKN's button and layered the warrior's head and knight's sword over it.

I modified the knights-templar kfm to use the warrior's idle and the swordsman's fidget.



EDIT: I have decided to make the Iroqouis uu a tomahawk, which will use the same kfm as my Francesca unit.
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Sweet unit man! Gimme gimme gimme! :goodjob:

(seriously, could you post it?)

I think since its resourcelss and has a good deal of strength (with the melee bonus as well) you should also make it cost more upkeep if that is possible, since they had to pay these people off.

Also I can't wait to see what you do with the Iroquois Tomohawk and Francisca/Francesca unit.
 
The Capo said:
I think since its resourcelss and has a good deal of strength (with the melee bonus as well) you should also make it cost more upkeep if that is possible, since they had to pay these people off.

Also I can't wait to see what you do with the Iroquois Tomohawk and Francisca/Francesca unit.
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I think I'll leave it a resourceless 8:strength: +50% vs. melee, since iron is pretty common anyways. And although the Cataphract is a pretty powerful UU, if you can use it, then the Foederati's ability is useless.

The Capo said:
Sweet unit man! Gimme gimme gimme! :goodjob:

(seriously, could you post it?)
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I suppose I could make it part of MechaUnits2.
 
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