Marines Need to be fixed.

[Nechlord]

As it stands marines are utterly pointless in the game although a nice idea. They are only useable lategame since early game the -25% shock damage is utterly devestating to their combat ability and sailors are in short supply making them useless. Even lategame the shock debuff is still a bad malus and the reduction of crossing penalties isn't really worth it considering the debuff.
So as it stands marines are useless in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

I propose the following suggestions
1. Remove the shock debuff, there are already special units ingame with good bonuses (i.e cossacks, banners) it makes no sense to create a special unit and give it a debuff which makes it objectively worse than every other unit in almost every circumstance.

2. Allow marines to be recruited with manpower instead or at least reduce the sailors cost so they can actually be used earlier in the game.