Propose your own Regional Units

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Another entry on reddit with American units this one. Asleep-Emotion9161 did very good work as usual.

Javeliner (skirmisher replacement)

This time I want to share maybe the wildest proposal of new regional units that I have made for the Mesoamerican civs since it is also very close to my heart. First, I would like to extend the archery range with two new regional units: the Javeliner a fast skirmisher with the same speed as eagle warriors since I fell that Meso civs lack a fast range unit (like a mounted archer) and Aztec, Inca and Maya civs all have bonuses for the skirmisher, therefore I feel like this could be a nice addition to make a mobile foot army.

A fast skirmisher can cause problem for Mens at arms if he have more speed (like the bowmen before April 2025). We need another concept. Visually looking better than the present western european skinned skirmisher.

Slingers

Then, I would like to extend the slingers as a regional unit, since it was a wildly used weapon in all the region, that starts in the feudal age, with little attack and accuracy but bonus against infantry and the current Inca unit could be an exclusive imperial upgrade.

I disagree with this because I think than the Slingers must be a regional unit for the Andean civilizations (alongside with another one ranged unit the bolas thrower who slow down enemy units). But keeping the actual slingers as an unique upgrade for the Incas is good because his shield is the emblem of this civilization. Also I think than the shield must be a square ecause the final upgrade have a square shield.

Staff sling (mangonel replacement)

Second, I would like to completely rework the Mesoamerican siege with completely unique regional units since siege is not very historically accurate, I understand that giving siege engines to Meso civs is for balance and maybe some of the suggestions I propose here are fictitious and also not historical, but II feel that they could bring a new flavor to the game: first, for the mangonel line replacement I would like to propose the staff sling (also called fustibalus in Greek) a long-range heavy stone thrower with low accuracy, attack bonus against other siege, ships and a little bonus against buildings, compared to a mangonel they could be more vulnerable to range units and lower attack, but faster and cheaper, maybe a group of staff slingers could be as effective as a normal mangonel.

Obsidian archer (scorpion replacement)

Second, the obsidian archer to replace the scorpion, this could be a super heavy archer that shoots in a straight line and when it hits, the obsidian arrow shatters into pieces and produce a little area damage, especially effective against groups of infantry, also to commemorate the original maya unique technology (even if bonus against buildings doesn’t make sense).

Archer with high damage and low attack rate and who revive the obsidian arrow technology : I say good !

Portable ram (ram replacement)

Last, the portable ram, a fast replacement of the original ram (maybe the max speed of a fully garrisoned ram from the start) that cost only wood and food, but requires two population, keeping the theme of a very mobile foot army.

Good concept this three one except in putting two population spaces for the portable ram, I think than all the units in this game must cost only one population space.

War canoe

Next, for the docks I would like to propose the war canoe, a fast and cheap ship that only cost food and wood that shoots an increasing number of arrows with each upgrade. This is because all Meso civs were used to water combat, even if they didn’t constructed heavy ships, for example in the siege of Tenochtitlan the Spanish built some Brigantines with cannons in lake Texcoco and the Aztecs fought them with a huge number of war canoes.

Good thing for the mesoamerican civilizations but maybe the andean civilizations can have a regional ship who look like the Chincha raft of Age of Empires 3 or the reed canoes of the Inca home city of Age of Empires 3. Also if an andean architectural set is created the andean civvilization need a new type of sail (just search Inca sail in a search engine).

New architectural set

Finally, I would like to break this region into three sub regions with specific architectures

Good to see new architectural set because the present one is a mayan architectural set is barely acceptable for the Aztecs but are awful for the Incas, definitively we need an andean architectural set.

and propose more Civilizations for each sub regions that I will explain a future post: the Mexico valley for Aztecs (Tlaxcala and Zapotecas Civs) with the original Eagle Warrior as the scout,

Maceman Runner (eagle warrior replacement)

then the Andean region for incas (Quechuas and Chimu civs) with a Maceman Runner as the scout, it will be good against infantry siege and siege in contrast to the Eagles but with the same speed,

Yes the Inca need an unit who look like this because this type of mace was in use in this region. Maybe not as a scout (another one the Chasqui will be the scout). The only who can be better is putting them a square shield who better differentiate him from another region (one time the devs put a skin for eagle warrior with an inca square shield). Also for his weapon : stone mace in Feudal age, bronze mace in Castle age (like the three mace on this picture of the lord of Sipan) and a bronze star-shaped mace in Imperial.

Holcan spearman (eagle warrior replacement)

finally the Maya region (Mayapan should be the original civ and then add the Chontales and Guatemalans) will have the Holcan spearman as a scout, similar in stats to the Eagle Warior but with the cost inverted, that is a heavy food and little gold cost, maybe with less armor.

Maybe with a ranged charged attack (In AoE 3 the Holcan spearman have a little range)