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New Engineer types - 7/30/2018 2:23:58 PM

LJBurstyn

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A global war scenario like GD1938 Version 3 really needs some expansion of Engineer units. Units built to build special roads, railroads or fortresses. During WWII both Germany and Russia had specialized units that built only railroads assigned to Army Groups. They also had special units to build and MAINTAIN (repair) fortresses. And some units designed to attack fortresses. The biggest need I see is a new engineer type to build only railroads as well as keeping an engineer unit to build roads. The new railroad engineers would cost more because of the specialized railroad building equipment.

In the American west engineers sometimes built more than a hundred miles of track in a single month on plains and even built railroads through the Sierra Nevada mountains (HIGH MOUNTAINS in this game) although it took a long time. I think this could be done by eliminating the EP maximum for railroad engineers while making the building through mountains expensive in EP's. This way it would take several "months" to build up enough EP to build through a high mountain hex. Or having a max EP the same as that needed to build a Railroad through ONE High Mountain hex. That way they would have to start over building up enough EP's to build through high mountains.

I know this will mean Vic has to do some more programming...hopefully it would be worth it.