Ideas for extra units and strategies

New Unit: Land Transport
We already have naval and air transports in the game why not add land transports.

Cost: 300
Max attack: 1
Max defence: 2
After-roll: 3
Hit points: 7 (10 with safer transportation upgrade)
Weekly cost: 30
Range: 6
Capacity: 5 (3 or 4 depending on purchased upgrades)

Very standard settings here, land transports get half the range of air transports and half the cost but with the same capacity. This unit would add a new dimension to Afterwind having to prioritize the purchasing of units and upgrades later on. Also it would extra strategy considering players would need to over think which is better to buy land or air transports?

New Unit: Cruiser A warship with a main purpose of accomplishing long distance naval missions. Cruisers are faster than most naval types but have weaker attack power. Great for detecting submarines.

Cost: 400
Max attack: 4
Max defence: 5
After-roll: 3
Hit points: 7 (10 with safer transportation upgrade)
Weekly cost: 40
Range: 20
Capacity: 0

This unit could add extra diversity to naval warfare.

New strategy: Helicopter Chief

+7 range to helicopters (same as regular bombers)
+1 attack to helicopters (7)
+1 defence to helicopters (6)
+3 capacity to helicopters (3)
Also their effectiveness against infantry and militia remains
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-1 attack to tanks
-1 defence to infantry

Land transport honestly seems to just be a nerfed air transport.

Prispeval tophat, 10.03.2012 at 13:16

New Unit: Land Transport
We already have naval and air transports in the game why not add land transports.

I and other suggested an APC already -- definitively rejected...

Prispeval Guest14502, 10.03.2012 at 13:29

Prispeval tophat, 10.03.2012 at 13:16

New Unit: Land Transport
We already have naval and air transports in the game why not add land transports.

I and other suggested an APC already -- definitively rejected...

ah did they say why?

Prispeval Guest14502, 10.03.2012 at 13:29

Prispeval tophat, 10.03.2012 at 13:16

New Unit: Land Transport
We already have naval and air transports in the game why not add land transports.

I and other suggested an APC already -- definitively rejected...

Just one APC? That's the problem, units are meant to represent a bit more than individual soldiers/tanks/whatever.

A mechanised infantry unit is the only thing that comes to mind but that still means infantry is involved and this may confuse people. Simply put, there is no way around this due to the problem of a lack of words.

The necessity of what's practically a nerfed air transport is debatable too, but let's see what the developers have to say if they speak up at all.

Fleet of APCs..whatever, that's like saying to reject a bomber because its "just one plane" -- I think youre being a bit too literal there Yoba.

They said to imagine the infantry were already in the land transports/apcs. I cant find the thread at the moment but its around someplace.

Cruiser is a rare unit, you didn't know this?

as for helicopter strat, you should look at this

Prispeval Guest14502, 10.03.2012 at 16:04

Fleet of APCs..whatever, that's like saying to reject a bomber because its "just one plane" -- I think youre being a bit too literal there Yoba.

They said to imagine the infantry were already in the land transports/apcs. I cant find the thread at the moment but its around someplace.

http://afterwind.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=97

Yeah thanks Fruit, thats it, both Amok and Ivan, There's been other threads after that too.

Yeah have new until wow