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Eustace's Onyx Crowmen

This mod adds a new flying monstrous infantry unit to the Cathay roster, the Onyx Crowmen Flock, as well as a new tier 3 building from which they are recruited.

In vanilla, Cathay has only one flying melee unit which is tier 5, the Longma Riders. The Crowmen provide an earlier non-elite alternative. Intended to be backline harassers, they are good for disrupting enemy missiles and fliers. They perform well against enemy missile units and can approach unseen thanks to their abilities. However, they shouldn't be left in a fair fight with other melee units for too long. When flying, they can use an ability that reveals hidden enemies in a wide area for a brief time.

The Crowmen Flock has Yang Harmony, and benefits from Longma skills and technology.

Crowmen can be recruited from a new tier 3 building, the Onyx Hideaway, in the Basic Recruitment category. Since it takes up a building slot just to recruit a single unit, the Onyx Hideaway also gives a buff to public order and corruption to compensate. Alternatively the unit can be found at the Paradise Gardens landmark.

The Crowmen are taken from the lore, they are even mentioned in a loading screen quote (at the top of this page). However, there isn't much info about them so this is just my interpretation. An official version will probably come with DLC some day. I'm aware they look more like vultures than crows, which is why I gave them masks.