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Light Infantry

VANILLA ONLY
This mod adds three new units and several tweaks to other units to create a new upgrade line of skirmishers/light infantry. These skirmishers are best used on larger maps with far-spaced cities, allowing armies to flank and maneauver out in the wilderness. Skirmishers also make excellent defenders, as they can use ranged attacks instead of costly melee assaults.

The light infantry line come with the ignore terrain promotion, and has a weak ranged attack of one range. Scouts, Archers, Crossbows, and Musketmen have been altered to fit into this light infantry role, and new sharpshooter and light infantry units have been created to extend the line through to the paratrooper. Line Infantry have been added as a conventional counterpart to the new musketman. Cavalry, Anti-tank guns, and Helicopter Gunships were also given ranged attacks.

Upgrade lines have been tweaked so that every unit upgrades into something:

Scout--Archer--Crossbow--Musketman--Sharpshooter--Light Infantry--Paratrooper
Warrior--Spearman--Pikeman--Line Infantry--Rifleman--Infantry--Mech. Infantry
Swordsmen--Longswordsmen--Line Infantry
Knight--Lancer--Cavalry
Trireme--Caravel--Frigate--Destroyer

Warriors and scouts now have 3 move points, making them more useful as explorers and raiders in the early game. Spears and Pikes are now stronger, making them viable offensive units. Lancers are much stronger, making them the trump card of the mid game. With the limited range and ranged damage of archers and crossbows, siege units and chariots are now relatively more powerful.

Works great with Redox' Amphibious Ship mod, and the PerfectWorld 3 map script.