New Unique Upgrades

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Hi all. Studying history as a hobby I’ve learned a lot about military traditions and culture of different countries and civilizations. I guess that we can either make civs for unique or emphasize civilization’s unique traits by adding new unique upgrades for the basic units for a great number of civs. Here are my samples of some unique upgrades that I made:

Important thing here for me is that I suggest creating such unique upgrades for basic units for civs that have no UNIQUE UNIT of their specialty. For example, I made unique arbalester upgrade for Ethiopians, because they’re in-game classified as an Archer Civilization, but Ethiopian unique unit is Shotel Warrior, which is INFANTRY. And I don’t think we need a unique archer upgrade for Britons as their unique unit is Longbowman which is already ARCHER.

You can notice that new unique upgraded units have better stats and a higher cost. In fact I don’t know the best balance and just changed numbers to show you my whole idea, the bonuses can vary.

Also you can notice that the unique upgrades are coloured in another shade of purple colour. New colour in tech tree for unique upgrades and regional units is my another idea for new players to understand the units mechanic better and make it some more clear. Here is the link:

New colours in tech tree for unique upgrades and regional units

Cumans and Huns for sure although for cumans you could argue they settled in Hungary at a certain point and may have used heavy cavalry. Huns however? They mostly represent the ones who settled in Europe in late antiquity and training paladins while having no steppe lancers is so silly. The game still has an highly European tech tree but eventually paladins will become a regional unit once there will be regional skins and Europe will be just a region among others.

What do you think? I want to add unique Tercio pikeman for Spanish but don’t know how their uniqueness can be emphasized. And also they’re some more appropriate and obvious variants like Frankish Paladin or Crusader knights as Frankish and Teuton paladin equivalent, but these units seem too trivial and corny for me.

P.S. Most of units’ icons are from Rise of Nations. You can find a lot of cool icons for unique units here:

Unique Units

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I recommend you create a list of unique units for all the Civilizations. Also they need to have unique abilities. While doing the exercise, do not forget to maintain balance by nerfing. If you can come up with the grand list, it would be good.