List of units
- Military units:
- infantry:
- militia (lightly armed, badly trained voluntary civilists)
- light infantry (lightly armed, trained soldiers)
- heavy infantry (heavily armed, well trained soldiers)
- grenadiers (heavily armed elite soldiers trained in use of granades - bonuses when attacking fortified place)
- sharpshooters (lightly armed former hunters, elite soldiers - bonuses when attacking from woods or fortified place)
- mercenaries (units which are bought for gold only instead of other resources)
- cavalry:
- light cavelry (lightly armed mounted soldiers with sabres)
- dragoons (lightly armed mounted soldiers with carbines)
- heavy cavelry (heavily armed mounted soldiers with sabres and cuirasses)
- Artillery:
- canons (artillery for direct fire - most effective against units)
- howitzer (artillery for less direct fire - similar effective against units and buildigs)
- mortars (artillery for indirect fire - most effective against buildings)
- infantry:
- Civil units:
- prospectors (special unit to find ore deposits in mountains)
- carting traders (unit to carry stock over land)
- Special units:
- explorer (I have no idea what i was thinking about when adding this unit...)
- spies (special unit to be placed in enemy territory to see what's going on there)
- saboteur (special unit to sabotage or rather destroy enemy facilities)
- treasure hunters (when a treasure feature is implemented this is the unit to dig for treasures)
- balloon (?) (possible special unit to reduce fog of war - only one available)
- Fishing vessels:
- fisching boat - common one- or two-masted sailing boat for fishing close to the coast like a pinnace, yawle or longboat
- cutter - generally one-masted small ship with higher fishing capacities
- herring fisher - two- to three-masted ship for independent fishing on open sea like a scooner, sloop, brig or hagboat
- whaler - two- to three-masted ship carrying the whaling boats and directly processing the haul
- Merchant vessels:
- boat - common one- or two-masted sailing boat like a longboat, yawl or pinnace
- courier ship - one- to two-masted ship like a sloop, scooner, galleass or billander
- small merchant ship - two-masted ship like a snow, ketch or brig
- big merchant ship - three-masted full rigged ship like a frigate
- War ships:
- small gunboat - small one-masted sailing boat like a yawl armed with a gun
- big gunboat - bigger one-masted sailing boat like a pinnace or barge armed with two or more guns
- naval cutter - generally one-masted small ship lightly armed with serveral guns
- sloop-of-war - two-masted unclassified warship like a snow, ketch or brig
- corvette - three-masted unclassified warship smaller but similar to a frigate
- frigate - three-masted most common classified war ship with one gun deck
- ship-of-the-line - three-masted heavy warship able to stand a line of battle with two gun decks
- bombadiere - two-masted ship like a ketch armed with mortars
- galley - sailing ship with rowing capacities like a xebec
- Special units:
- submarine - unarmed vessel for espionage activities (still open to discussions)
