Kami's unit balance mod

Kami's unit balance mod unit balance mod

Are you also super annoyed that the only units you really need are knights and archers or crossbowmen? Would you also like your unit selection to be more diverse?

This mod reduces the power of ranged and cavalry units and/or increases the power of other land units.

Short summary of changes:

Early cavalry units were jittery (and therefore less useful as interception units now)

The melee strength of most ranged units has been reduced

The cost of siege units and some support units has been reduced by about 20% (since there are no bonuses for Civic cards)

Cost reduction for late game non-mechanical units such as infantry and anti-tanks

The tank is a bit expensive

Most other unique units have been polished to make them more useful

Upgrade cost increased (about 50%)

Three promotions (Commando, Square, Wing) were improved

Spoiler completely changed:

Land unit:

Archer: Melee strength reduced to 12

Hit Ram: Cost reduced to 52

Knight: Melee strength reduced to 28

Siege Tower: Cost reduced to 80

Catapult: Cost reduced to 100

Knight: Strength reduced to 45. Cost reduced to 165

Crossbowman: Melee strength reduced to 20. Cost reduced to 160

Bombardment: Melee power reduced to 35. Cost reduced to 225

Field Artillery: Melee strength reduced to 40

Medic: Cost reduced to 240

Ranger: Cost reduced to 280

Infantry: Cost reduced to 380. Maintenance reduced to 5

AT Crew: Cost reduced to 320

Machine Gun: Melee strength reduced to 60. Ranged strength reduced to 70. Cost reduced to 420. Maintenance reduced to 5

Modern AT: Cost reduced to 500. Maintenance reduced to 6

Unique units (original units remain unchanged unless otherwise stated):

Eagle Warrior: Ignore forest/jungle movement penalty

Viking Longship: Gain gold from killing units. Number is 50% of the combat power of the defeated unit (same change as Pokiehl's Better Harald mod)

Maryannu Chariot Archer: Cost reduced to 100. Free promotion on construction (same as Pokiehl's better Cleopatra mod)

Hoplite: Strength increased to 27. Cost increased to 70 (same changes as Pokiehl's better Greek mode)

Sakama Archers: Combat power reduced to 12. Can move after attacking (based on Pokiehl's better Tomyris mod)

Varu: Maintenance rate reduced to 2

Ngao Mbeba: Cost reduced to 90

Berserker: Strength increased to level 43. Cost reduced to 110. Can be used for "Military Training" technology. Can be purchased with Faith (same variation as Pokiehl's Better Harald mod)

Samurai: Cost reduced to 110. Uses 'Defensive Tactics' technology. Can be purchased with faith (same variation as Pokiehl's better Hojo mod)

Mamluk: Reduces cost to 140. Reduces maintenance to 2. Reduces strength to 39. Can move after attacking.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The range is increased to 2. The combat power is reduced to 28 people. Reduce costs to 185 people

Conqueror: Movement increased to 3

Redcoat: reduced cost to 250

Garde Imperiale: reduced cost to 250. increased to 3

Rough Rider: reduced cost to 280

Chariot: Cost increased to 65. Maintenance increased to 1

Promotions (Unless otherwise stated, original retention policy remains unchanged):

Commando: Added ignoring mountain movement penalty. Added an additional +4 combat power when defending on hillsides

Square: Triple support bonuses, not double them

Flanking: Triple flanking bonus, not double

other:

Promotional expenses increase. Upgrade cost multiplier increased from 75 to 110. This equates to approximately 40-50% increase in upgrade cost if the hammer difference between the original unit and the upgraded unit is large enough. Otherwise the upgrade cost percentage will be larger (e.g. Slinger going into Archer).

Many of the ideas for unique unit improvements came from Pokiehl's Better <Civ name> Mod's. So I definitely don't expect these changes to be well received. I recommend you check out these mods on Steam Workshop as well. They are good.

Installation Instructions: Download the mod and place it in your game's Mods folder …