Ideas for new units, buildings, effects, etc

[TheConqueror753]

Some of these are interesting. I’ll give you my take on each one or what I would do instead below.

@JuliusCaminus

Tourney field: For Franks. It would have to be fairly large, ~5x3, and be fairly expensive to build ~100s/300w. Requires Castle and University build. Once constructed it would have a switch (like auto reseed button) that would increase Knight LOS and attack by +1, but cost a trickle of gold and food twice or thrice as fast as relic income. You can turn off the button or run out of resources and it will stop.

I kind of like this idea, I think that it should require Castle and Stables though, rather than Castle and University.

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Teocalli (God House): For Aztecs: Maybe 4x3, ~225 stone. Requires Monastery and University to build. Garrison ten units to sacrifice them. First sacrifice adds +1 LOS to all infantry. Second sacrifice adds + 1 attack to all infantry. Third sacrifice adds +1 melee armor to Archer line. Effect lasts until the building is destroyed.

I would rather call it the Sacrificial Temple, or Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl. Available to Aztecs and Mayans. I would have it 4x4/3x3, costs 400 stone. When villagers are garrisoned, it plays a special animation (or not if it would alter the game violence rating) where the villager is sacrificed, and it gives the player gold. A new tech, Sacrificial Warfare becomes available. New tech means that when the player kills an enemy unique unit, the unit converts and becomes a new unit; Sacrificial Hostage. These are the only other unit that can be sacrificed, and for a higher profit than a simple villager.

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Bierhalle: For Teutons. ~200 wood. Requires Barracks to build. Militia and Spearmen cost -5 food each, but must be placed within 5 tiles of at least 3 farms to work.

I would rather have the Teutons get a building, Fortress of the Templar. Which can research some military techs to improve Teutonic Knight, and Knight of the Templar. The idea is that Teutonic Knights can be garrisoned, and then slowly convert into Knights of the Templar/Crusader Knights, basically a mounted and stronger version of the regular Teutonic Knight.

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Hooka Lounge: For Saracens. ~200 wood. Requires Monastery and University. Monks have +1 LOS and range, but walk %10 slower.

I don’t think that something that makes an already slow unit even slower will be very popular.

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Longhouse: For Vikings. ~200 wood. Requires Barracks and Castle to build. Longboats can garrison 10 units.

Reasonable idea.

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Trade Workshop (from the scenario editor): For Italians. ~300 wood. Requires Market to build. Effectively a relic, minus the victory option. Can be converted like a torch or monument by having the most military units nearby. Effect stacks up to 5 times. Must share LOS with an owned market to work. When converted, it takes on the appropriate architecture.

Too OP, and kind of takes the role of Feitoria.

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Varangian Guard Quarters: For Byzantines. ~250 wood, 100 Gold. Requires Castle and Dock to build. Militia line do +2 damage to cavalry.

No.

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Inn: Possibly for a Swiss civ. This would be a team bonus allowing all allies to construct the Inn and train the origin civ’s unique unit as mercenaries.

I actually really like this idea. Not necessarily for a Swiss civ, but if players were able to build inns/taverns and then donate them to another player. They have no benefit for the player that builds it, but allows the player who receives control to create the unique unit of the builder, probably at a slower rate however.

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Mounted archer (needs a better name): A cavalry archer with high speed and very low attack, but which can dismount to get high attack and low speed. The effect works like unpacking a trebuchet, and afterward he walks around next to his horse. (This one may be kind of dumb; I was just thinking that it would be a great harrassment unit, and when dismounted it would no longer take bonus cavalry damage.)

One of the two ideas that I actually think is ok. Might need some fine tuning, but a decent base idea.

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Pirate ship: A mix between a fire ship and a monk. It charges forward and converts enemy ships by keeping in very close range and ‘boarding.’

Good idea. Rename it Privateer however.

Below are two links to some other topics.

This one links to kind of new unit ideas:
New units via conversion

This one goes to my balance changes suggestions, the ones you might find of interest are: Burgundians, Cumans, Incas, Indians, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Vikings, and Steppe Lancers. This is because they are the main ones where I think that they need either a reworked unit, or a reworked tech/other bonus:
Balance changes

That’s all from me for now.