fomalhaut wrote:Of course I know how to edit units.ruleset.
But I want to strengthen Armor like submarine (reduced attack point 15 to 12:ver2.2.0)
Though "Mobile Warfare" is very big and important changes in the history of war, Armor in Freeciv is useless units.
I can't understand why firepower of Armor is lower than that of Artillery.
Did Armor model on "Panzer II" or "Panzer III"? Where is "Pnther" or "Tiger I" ?
If Health of Armor increases to 40, Efficency increases to 0.75.
0.75 is appropriate compared with Artillery(0.88).
(I'm convinced that Armor is too strong if their firepower is 2. )
And I strongly hope (1).
As "Civilization II", this change gives a new and big role to destroyer until game end.
As far as I can tell, the 'howitzer' in game is supposed to be a towed or self-propelled gun, and probably is meant to be toting a gigantic high-explosive anti-tank gun firing high-arc cannon. Like Battleship size cannon. If you've played World of Tanks, and seen higher tiered tanks get hit by SPG fire, you'd understand why they're stronger
(Though on the defense they should stand no chance against Armor, or even Infantry units).
If anything, the howitzer should probably not have the 2 defense or not have the 30 health (It receives 50% more health than artillery, meaning its effective defense is actually 1.5 times as high as artillery
before the defense increase, which then puts it up to triple.
The problem as I see it, is that all 'big land' units are condensed into 3/4 unit(s): Armor, Howitzer, Mechanized Infantry, (And Artillery if you consider it to be Electric Age rather than Steam Age)
It could use some fleshing out, like this:
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WWI/Electric Age:
Howitzer(Artillery?[Though I consider Artillery to be Steam Age siege weapon, not Electric Age] or perhaps somewhat improvement in power over artillery)
Armor(WWI, Early, thinly armored Armor unit, slow as can be, but with decent attack and defense values[Pre-Mobile Warfare])
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WWII/Combustion Age:
Light Armor(WWII, Same or slightly higher attack, defense, and health as Armor, but much improved Movement Speed[Vanilla Armor?])
Heavy Armor(WWII, Improved attack, defense, health, and slight speed increase from Armor)
Self-Propelled Gun(WWII, super-light Armor unit with thin armor, but toting a gigantic(and heavy) gun. [Which is basically what the howitzer is right now])
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Postwar/Modern/Nuclear Age/Space Age
Battle Armor(Think M1A1, fast as a light tank, even more health than Heavy Armor, and with every bit as much firepower and attack as a howitzer).
Mechanized Infantry(super-light armor-like vehicles with heavy machine-guns rather than cannons, along with the ability to quickly transport infantry[part of the unit rather than ferry] and can additionally ferry missile units.
Also, biplane, jet fighter, and jet bomber are missing from the Air units as well.(Biplane skipped straight to WWII fighter, and then jet fighter and jet bomber skipped straight to stealth fighter and stealth bomber)