Before going on with the mod, I have to think about the tech tree, especially the military part. There are several technologies I have to take into consideration when creating new units.
These are: Arms Deal, Imported Guns, Modern Rifles, Revolver, Carbine, Modern Army, Kneel Fire and Suppression Fire.
My ideas so far:
- In the beginning, you can only recruit outdated Sengoku units.
- Arms Deal -> activates minie line infantry for Tokugawa and sonno joi. Tokugawa vassals will get them a bit later.
- Imported Guns -> activates modern artillery.
- Modern Rifles -> slightly decreases costs of firearm units. Tokugawa vassals get basic minie line infantry.
- Revolvers -> maybe I should rename it to "Western Cavalry"? It will then activate hussars, ulans and Republican cuirassiers.
- Carbines -> could be renamed to "Firearm Cavalry". Activates revolver and carbine cavalry (although they're rather useless due to their rather short-ranged weapons).
- Modern Army -> activates all other modern units besides skirmishers. Tokugawa gets Denshutai, Sendai gets Gakuheitai, Aizu gets its 4 unique units.
- Kneel Fire -> removed. Maybe it should activate the skirmishers with chassepot rifles?
- Suppression Fire -> removed. It could unlock the combat engineers.
Any suggestions or comments?