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Non-combat infantry unit which dissarm mines.

Unit with mend rate and some useful abilities.
Create dug in: Applied to all land units. +5 explo armor and disable movement for 3 turns. No Cooldown
Create sandbags: Applied to all infantries and artilleries. +5 explor armor, disable movement, and +3 normal armor for 2 turns. No Cooldown
Remove mines: Instantly remove mines. Cooldown: 3 turns.
Can start construction of pillboxes, mines, and sandbag bunker.
Dug in and sandbags can be stacked on one unit.
Cost=2 turn.
Can see mines.

The engineer unit also need ability to see mines and start construction of pillboxes.

Not too good for two turns? I like the idea, but mayby 3 cost.

How about we rename this unit because this was the name of my post a year ago and it was an engineer, how about a mine sweeper that could step on mines and not take damage.

samuelch wrote:Unit with mend rate and some useful abilities.
Create dug in: Applied to all land units. +5 explo armor and disable movement for 3 turns. No Cooldown
Create sandbags: Applied to all infantries and artilleries. +5 explor armor, disable movement, and +3 normal armor for 2 turns. No Cooldown
Remove mines: Instantly remove mines. Cooldown: 3 turns.
Can start construction of pillboxes, mines, and sandbag bunker.
Dug in and sandbags can be stacked on one unit.
Cost=2 turn.
Can see mines.

The engineer unit also need ability to see mines and start construction of pillboxes.

if change cost to 3 turns they will become viable units.
for 2 turns they are way too good.

This topic is answered if this is like the engineer I have a post like this one a year ago.

This is a combat support unit. Engineer is for base building.

Your engineer idea is only as builder, not combat support. Sapper will be like a mix of casters in AoF and labourer in AoS.

Yes that idea was supposed to be the aos builder, however the engineer won the race and this topic can be modified to the other topic and have this topic ANSWERED. But I am full okay with this topic going on if you want.

US sapper

Dug in icon.

The image on top needs small fixing but the "digging in icon" is good, First the hand is missing, second they had heavy back packs which is not portrayed in the image.

Here is an image of a modern Russian Sapper: https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images ... 857034.jpg

Fix hand

Nice the hand is much better so is the backpack.

Sandbag ability icon

looking well, but that arm seems not long enough.

Try to put more banging the image.

Should the dug in gives more explosive armour like +10?

BTW if unit gets 0 movement for 3 turns while staying dug-in, wouldn't that mean units with miss chance gets 100% accuracy to hit it? (Acc.penalty*0=0)