when i build them, they have no combat abilities. not even defensive. they just get taken by hostile units

Can this unit defend themselves against hostile unit, unlike the regular engineer/worker/builder?
Can they fight, like other combat units?

ESSAYONS!!!

Here's an Idea, make a promotion that lets any unit build. So when you upgrade them to partroopers they can still build

Could I request a Super-combat-engineer version that can also build the Motte-and-Bailey forts and Railroads? Possibley Kasbah's too? Great mod as-is though. Very handy.

AMAZING! great idea mate ;).

Why does the unit have the spearman model for me?

Could you add a way to download manually?

the mod imean

ok

Will the AI utilize them as well?

its a battle engineer! someone get a raidio playing erectin a river!

Sappers lead the way!

BATTLE ENGIE.

They added a sapper promotion with BNW! I think if they were infantry with the sapper promotion, that is all I would need from them! As a combat engineer, I can say, all we are is infantry that uses C4, so that would be perfect, imho. you could even lower thier attack slightly to make them not be OP.

Also, I still have that picture if you want to fix it.

maybe add trenches

need a despencer here

This needs GnK

Does this work on vanilla or just G&K?

If I had the ability I would make a MOD for military sniper: a ranged unit unseen other civs that moves SLOW but is deadly. They would be easy to kill when found but lethal until then. Armed with .50BMG (same range as cannon), guillie suit, and capable of paratrooper drop.

Sappers have 2 main functions: clear the way for friendly advance and to obstruct the way for enemy advance. All duties and tasks fall into those 2 categories.

However, the U.S. Army uses it as a proficiency tab, much like the Ranger tab.

It's a term used by the British, primarily.

A sapper is a person who makes bridges, bunkers, and the like, and breaks the other side's bridges and such in a large and LOUD way. Two characters: C4.

Whilst I feel your pain at getting ignored John, you have to admit there's a nice little irony in a "John Doe" going unacknowledged!
Like the mod Midway but I agree with sidemeriko. I'd prefer to have the last upgrade not make them into paras. However, like you say, we can simply not do the last upgrade so fair enough!

well it feels nice to have a coment be totally ignored.... :)

@Alshain Sappers? TF2 reference in that. (or is sapping an actual thing?)

no, they are still combat units.
because they shoot

Do these guys stack like workers?

you want that picture, I have it. you would need to add the text.

I'm seeing that many people think if combat engineers get too many abilities, they'll be OP. so just make it so that there's a limited amount of engineers per civ or there's different types of engineers with different abilities, right? by the way, does it work automatically with the mac?

@believe6 once you have subscribed load up civ and select the mod option from the main menue. after that you just follow the on screen steps. you will not be able to load previous saves with new mods.

I couldn't find much on this question, and forgive me for asking such a novice question, but how do i enale this to work with in steam? I have subscribed to this and a few other. Non so far have displayed in my in game options. Thank You

What about this?
Medieval Era= Sappers (available with Engineering) can lower denfenses from cities and forts (tunneling) + basic tile reparing, road and fort building, timbering. Worker mesh
Renaissance= Pioneers (with Chemistry) can now use ranged attacks. Musketman mesh.
Industrial era= Combat Engineers (with Dynamite) better combat performance. Great War Infantry mesh then Marine when you get to Atomic era.

Good job, and a great idea, but please replace "mili-tray" with "military", and level the text to the right instead of left. ( in the picture ). Looks neater that way.

Adds tactical engi-
neer units for
military

By the way, since we now have tactical engineers, its time to get those Assault Scientists the militaries are sorely lacking. :-D

Also, I don't use this mod yet, but as a combat engineer, thanks for making this mod. It's great to see the combat engineers getting some respect!

I know sappers date to the medieval era at least, but modern combat engineers are contemporaries with explosives. Sappers generally were for tunneling under walls. It's a cool idea to have an early unit that would weaken cities I think. they wern't so into the combat though, like current combat engineers are.

@m.willour
I thought about that.
but if I add a new unit in classic or medieval era, then Roman Legion will lost its special abilty (because it is not unique anymore).

so the first combatengineer is able to be produced in Rifling

I would suggest that these units be available earlier. There are examples in what I guess would be the classical era of attacking armies building bridges to reach islands and ramps to assail walled cities. I want to say tunneling too. Even the Trojan Horse should be considered an engineering work. Good idea overall, though I haven't yet tried using them.

As a combat engineer, I can say I think your best bet is giving some kind of defensive ability, and an offensive ability. I think if you give them too much, they become OP. As an engineer, I would love for them to be OP, but I think realistically, let them build forts, since we learn to build defensive structures, and if you can, let them have some ability like, adjacent units get a bonus equal to the one that you get where you can attack cities and fortified units better, since traditionally, that is how combat engineers are used, to destroy or construct defenses. Just a thought...

I like the idea, but they just seem to be combat workers from my first impression. I've been reading the comments and I agree that trenches, mines, etc. would be really cool. In addition bridges, mountain paths, and other ways of transporting land units would be amazing, and canals for transporting sea units. I'd also suggest unique forts (maybe with the default models to save time) that have different features and maybe their own lesser bombardment option, and perhaps some sort of defence system that isn't a unit and can intercept incoming aircraft. Those are just some suggestions...

I very much want trenches. that would be extremely good. In addition, for macs, does this mod turn on automatically or else, how do i turn it on? i'll definitely get this if you add trenches though.

I've worked at adding mines to the game, and the AI is an issue for placing (not avoiding) them. The major issue is that there isn't a game event that returns improvement/player IDs from tiles the human player cannot see. This means that while AI can build/place a mine, there's no reliable way to set a "detonator".

It would be good if you called them 'Combat Engineers' or 'Sappers' just would of added a little bit more realism into the game, but yeah i like :)

@crick1952
1.no, workers still can build Fort and stuff but it takes longer than engineers.
Also, engineers have own combat ability.

2. Mines.. that's a bit problem.
Computers are AI so they know where exactly we inserted a mine.
I'm not that good at modding, so I'll leave landmine mod other people to make.

Does this disable the ability of normal Engineers to build military structures? Also, it would be really cool if they could deploy land/water minefields, morters, ect.

@sidemeriko
really thank you for ideas.
I'll balance techs as you suggested.
I don't want to put paratroopers because it would be extreme a bit..
(Tanks with paradrop, battleship paradrop..)

But I like Mountain attackers. I'll consider that.

Very good idea but i suggest others prereq.techs : Chemistry for a 1st version in Renaissance era (historical birth) or later Dynamite > Railroad > Combustion > Combined Arms.
I vote no for the para upgrade to keep 3 differents types of special units : Marines/Airborne/Pioneers. What about mountain infantry ?

@JMShoemaker1512
o..ok..
English vocab is so hard..