@cameron said in New Steampunk Advance Thread:
paratroopers: the AI buys them, nut never does air drops or air transport with them; just treats them as a regular land unit. airship+paratrooper island hopping is sweat.
Yeah, for Nemo Pirates especially. Island Hopping with Airships can help you out a lot if your a bit out of position. This also applies to the Americans would could Edison-Destroyer Spam instead of waste time building a pacific navy (likely to be sunk by Nemo anyway)
dabbabas: watching the AI kill troops that can hit you in favour of dabbabas is sad. but maybe a bit funny too; in a schadenfreude kinda way. i'm not sure if the AI ever uses it's land transport ability.
hmm... maybe i should just give them 0 DEF? i don't want to get rid of them in part b/c i like the flavour but mainly b/c they provide a counter to massed martian maginots.
Yeah honestly. No reason for the 6 Def. I do agree with their inclusion since Maginot Spam even in the OG and Advance version was common in Mecca (now helped by Trenches)
nemo should be trying to take ALL the islands. but i suspect that the AI is blind to objectives.
It does still generally do a decent job taking the pacific due to Entente AI doing a poor job dealing with the Nemo Pirates. Now against a real player, they tend to get sunk fast
grafZeppelins: i found them to be way too OP so i nerfed them a bit (-1 ATT, giving them the 'spotting' bonus instead of the 'artillery' bonus, max build 8 (which means that one can't build any more until losing some (which was actually accidental)), limited placement location (approximately where the actual Zeppelin plant is). of course now that they don't have any landing restrictions they're OP in new ways...
Maybe have them also be built in Mexico City though that's up to you. You also buffed their defense by 2 
. There is some nerfs compared to the regular and advanced versions such as Snipers not being a unit (basically cost-efficient Artillery style units with lower attack and versatile transport cost) and what you mentioned above. I still think no landing restrictions is a good idea (I say it's balanced in North America though US still needs more IPC personally but yeah)
re moving them further away: maybe i should start them at the Zeppelin plant, that would stop them from 1st turn hitting St.Petersburg at least.
Yeah, I say move them to Bavaria so they have to waste a turn to do St.Petersburg or London. (You can also buff St.Petersburg defenses)
AAgun immunity: not sure about this. my instinct is no. but in the early days airships were mostly immune to AA fire... but not for long. i've never much liked the way AAguns work in A&A. maybe i should use that option where AA only target a limited number of targets? actually, what i would like is for an AA hit to only do 1 damage instead of instakilling something with multiple HP. then you could give some airships multiple HP so that AA could only weaken them...
Yeah I learned that the hard way with the Dutchman
Anyway, I say a variant could be cool. I say give such AA Immune Zepplin to Austria to make them more unique
yeah, i had real trouble coming up with unique units for A-H; which is why i just gave them a couple of the german ones... i did think of some sort of vampiric dracula corps but wasn't sure how that would work...
The only thing I found as a sort of mech thing called a Clanker but we kind of got that already.
Now there is Leviathans which I do think could be given to Austria starting out (obviously not buildable). Ig a cool thing for Austria is have their conscripts be 1 Atk/ 0 Def. I mean ... it would be more unique than being the fifth nation with the exact same unit
already so many units in the game...
and i feel like there should be something uniquely different and special about how the new units work... but maybe just a purely cosmetic change is fun too?
Yeah that;s why I was I liked units like the Dabbaba since they are specialized unique units that aren't just large mech weapon.
