New ground unit ideas

[Illidan Stormrage]

so I thought for a while about 4 possible new ground units.

1. motars
type: infantry
description: fires a artillery shell into the air and does a lot of damage to infantry. sets up like a eweb gun.
Factions: Any faction can have them, but I think they would be great for the EOTH as I know Corey wants to redo the hand's ground forces

2. fanatics
type: infantry
description: when deploy it is two characters with bombs strap to their chests they are really design to blow up buildings and heavy vehicles.
factions: Really just the NR.

3. flametroopers
type: Infantry
Description: carries a short range weapon that does amazing damage to infantry but really weak against vehicles.
Factions: All

4. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/SD-9-series_battle_droid
(read it)

[GreyStar]

We could give ensalved aliens bombs to their chests or prisoners with thermal detonator collars as the IR and PA versions of the non-canon fanatic. Except these units would be pseudo-canon.

[Bucman55]

We could give ensalved aliens bombs to their chests or prisoners with thermal detonator collars as the IR and PA versions of the non-canon fanatic. Except these units would be pseudo-canon.

I don't know about for the PA. Maybe Eriadu or Maldrood.

[Slornie]

Or Zsinj - he did have brainwashing programmes to produce sleeper agents to infiltrate the NR military.

[thdhted]

Honestly, the fanatics idea sounds PERFECTLY suited to the Yvethans. They're fanatical enough to do it in the first place, and their pilots were known for suicide bombing.

[Jesse220]

1. New Republic Walkers

2. Imperial Remnants New Star Destroyer

3. More ships for the Empire of the hand

[Helix345]

I don't think that the nr, with there emphasis on preserving life, would use fanatics. As for the imperial version, that's something I could definitely see.

[t78]

The SD-9 and the SD-10 provide an interesting tech-progression. Say, SD-9 for eras 1-2, joined by the tougher 10 in era 3. Perhaps something tech-heavy Eriadu might use if they conquer Balmorra?

What would make them different from other units though? The ability to swap weapon loadout? Perhaps a limited ability too take cover like infantry?



Any chance of sentinals for era 3? Perhaps not buildable, but occasionally spawned at Byss. Lowers effectiveness of enemy troops (and sometimes your own) due to the fear factor.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Sentinel

[tlmiller]

With the XR-85, there's less than no reason to have another heavy unit in Era 3+.  Unless the team moved XR-85's to other factions and gave the SD series to the IR proper.

[Eldritch66X]

What really needs to be done is find a way to where infantry become a bigger part of battles besides being used to capture landing zones

[tlmiller]

What really needs to be done is find a way to where infantry become a bigger part of battles besides being used to capture landing zones

They've been working on trying to make infantry have more usefulness, but without making them OP'd, it's rather hard.

[Impyness]

I was instantly reminded of this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ewok_Handler

[t78]

Infantry generally do city fighting whilst vehicles fight in open country.

With that... what if cities had small spaces and walkways only infantry could fit along, whilst every building could be occupied like a bunker? Infantry go 'house to house', and if an enemy infantry group is in a neighbouring house they fight it out? Essentially two bunkers firing at each other. Such buildings cannot be destroyed, but once their health bar is at zero, the infantry are forced out (most killed in this process) and the building gets reset to full health.

[Illidan Stormrage]

I also think that making units that tie in to modern infantry like light mortar teams, flame troopers, Suicide bombers(like the fanatics from command and conquer Tiberium Wars )

[Laimis]

finally something interesting: Balmora droids, should be nice, like dark troopers:

[Eldritch66X]

that's another thing to alot of galactic armies used droids in there armies, wouldn't it be possible that imperials would be forced to use droids to fill out there ranks a bit or at least for support and no i am not suggesting you add cis droids (i absolutely hate those things)

[Eldritch66X]

well i have another idea in real life there are sniper rifles that are capable of piercing light and medium armor on vehicles is there anything that in star wars and if there was it probably wouldn't pierce an at-at

[Corey]

We have no plans to do any of those droid types. They're very rare and obscure, don't really offer that much functionally, and with the limited amount of infantry we have the resources to make, we have much better options. As far as stuff like snipers, we're trying to diversify infantry functions a bit, but the problem with snipers when we've done them in the past is that units don't account for terrain differences while targeting, which gets more problematic the farther away they get. Most times, snipers tend to just shoot the ground.

[Eldritch66X]

For the shadow hand gc would it be possible for palpatine to train dark jedi???

[Jesse220]

A new Tie Walker for the Imperials perhaps?