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Vanguard Units and Heroes Mod

Works with updated version

A mod focusing on adding various Vanguard units and various faction heroes. New units include:

• Local Militia- A tier 1 cheap infantry unit that will be expanded on later and tied to a defense building. WIP
  
• Vanguard Machinegunner
  
• Vanguard Sniper
  
• Vanguard Officer
  
• Vanguard Mobile Infantry- Is now tied to the APC!
  
• Vanguard Soldier
  
• Vanguard Heavy Infantry
  
• Vanguard Cyborg Trooper
  
• Vanguard Special Forces
  
• Vanguard APC
  
• Vanguard FAV
  
• Vanguard Covert Operative
  
• Vanguard Scientist Team
  
• Vanguard Colonial Militia
  
• Vanguard Police Squad- Unrelated to Frank Drebin.

The Valkyrie is now enabled as a buildable and upgradeable unit. She is expensive and requires the Elite Military building as a requisite.

I've begun adding prerequisites for construction of the units and many of them will eventually have their own structures.

This mod also includes a variety of new hero units for you to play with. The default game only has a dozen units per faction and runs out quickly; this should fix that.

Submit your own leaders and heroes today and I'll put them into the game!

This mod has also started adding in custom icons for your faction to pick from including: Starship Troopers, SS13 NanoTrasen, and various others. More to come!

Submit requests for new icons here.

Looking for MOAR units? Check out MystHawk's Unit Mod featuring a variety of Dvar, Assembly, and Amazons units.

Do you have Blender or Maya and got some free time? Know of any free and open source assets? Just want to help?

I want to have a huge variety of models for these (and future) units. Making the units is getting easy but modeling is hard. Hit me up if you are interested in helping.

• Online savegames and multiplayer saves will break until Paradox fixes multiplayer modding support. This effects all mods.
  
• If you play using an old savegame then some of your units might still have some of their old abilities; only new units will be updated to reflect new content properly. (this is a beneficial bug)
  
• Vanguard Dropship is just a copy of the Gunship right now. I should have removed it.
  
• Game crash upon opening Units tab of Almanac.
  
• Vanguard Machinegunner attack SFX doesn't work.
  
• Vanguard Machinegunner attack VFX don't seem to work now.
  
• Vanguard Machinegunner needs a balance pass, never seems to survive.
  
• Vanguard Machinegunner needs a texture pass.
  
• Vanguard Special Operations unit likely needs a texture pass.
  
• Vanguard Special Operations attack SFX don't work.
  
• Vanguard Police unit needs new textures for his pistol and shield.

I'm only doing Vanguard right now.
• Local Militia- A tier 1 cheap infantry unit that is pretty damn weak (see Raiders for reference).
• Vanguard Veteran- A tier 2 improved infantry unit.
• Vanguard Machine-gunner- A tier 2 infantry unit armed with a big ass machine gun.
• Vanguard Sniper- A tier 2 specialist infantry unit armed with a long range sniper rifle.
• Vanguard Officer- Tier 2 support unit who is armed with a pistol gains better drone tech as he levels up. Also, can use Targeting Field OWL ability to focus fire on targets.
• Vanguard Special Forces- A tier 3 elite infantry unit armed with a SMG who can get up close and do some damage. Dark armored Troopers.
• Vanguard APC- Tier 2 support unit. Could have an ability to spawn a free crappy troop into battle.
• Vanguard Dropship- Tier 2 air support unit that can spawn in additional reinforcements and provide some air cover.
• Female Vanguard Specialist/Medic?
• Bodyguard Unit- Unit who absorbed damage for others.
• Vanguard Shotgun Unit- A tier 1 infantry unit armed with a shotgun. (Riot Control Team)
• Scientist Unit- A crappy cowardly guy who can buff the army. Grants science when the team kills enemies.
• Businessman Unit- A crappy cowardly guy who can buff the army. Grants energy when the team kills enemies.
• Bounty Hunter- A voidtech unit who does stuff... idk, I've got a model for her though.
• Vanguard Submarine
• Grenadier- A heavier Vanguard unit who has a grenade launcher and excels in blowing stuff up. (Could also be a rocket trooper)
• Vanguard Artillery or Howitzer

Thank you Paradox and Triumph for writing up some guides on how to get started with modding[aowplanetfall.paradoxwikis.com] as the development tools are quite intimidating.