Kirko is supposed to spam weak units, not Thraxians with their range 7 repeatable attack just for 26 production, I build 7 units per turn in a single colony.
My suggestion is to keep roles unchanged, just add a copy of standard unit with different channel(s) used.
I mean, Kirko tier 1 can have bio or psyonic melee, but it cannot have range 7 repeating attack.

Hmm, I mean kirko are one of the only races in the game to get snipers, so I'm not entirely adverse to them having range 7 attacks.

There are things that make them strong compared to other ranged infantry thoguh, obvious swarm shield is bonus at long range and I used the base Thrax rifle which is damage 10 rather than say the Troopers which is 9.

So I'm thinking of doing some of these
Reduceing Armor or Shields or both to 0
Reducing health by 5
Reducing range to 6
increasing cost

Definately doing
Reducing damage to 9.

reducing armor and shields + reducing health shoud do it.. so they are sort of glasscannons and you need to protect them like i do it with melee units... ;)

Snipers are too weak IMHO, at least without any mods, staggering hurts them too much.

agreed, but the laser sniper from the vanguard rocks! i wish all snipers have a snapshot ability... or agile overwatch, so they can enter overwatch and fire with full actionpoints even if they lost one or two from staggering. :)

Which sniper? Or all of them?

They all have snapshot abilities and most of them have another abilities as well. The standard snipers in the original game suffer from the same issue.

All of them IMHO. Snapshot ability does less damage than double repeating attack. Kirko has 50% upkeep of tier 1 units and huge production bonus because non-cosmite units are much weaker than units of other factions.

Well this mod isn't about changing the standard game and I want to stay in the convetion of the game, I.E none of the vanilia snipers have inbuilt stagger resist. They're meant to be used at range, hence the range of 9. You can always give them a stagger resist mod if you have one.

Many of the snipers I made have other abilities as well, the Vanguard Airborn has an inbuilt mini jetpack which allows it to position very well for a good full attack and a snapshot for when it is staggered. It's drawback is that it does not have overwatch.

The vanguard laser sniper has the bonucing shot, which with a few mods can get pretty crazy, but it's full attack does not stagger and deals less damage. Their snapshot has a stagger inpact which means with a hardlight mod it can deal massive impact on the snapshot and stagger two targets with a full snipe attack. They also can give allies agile overwatch for 1 turn.

The amazon snipers are the weakest, their full action attack only Charrs enemies but it does stagger and thier snapshot lowers shields. They don't have any other abilities so they should get one.

Kirko, Assembly and syndicate had snipers so I didn't feel the NEED to give them another, but I could in an alternative damage channel.

And Dvar I don't feel are a very snipery race, they got some very powerful ranged attacks as is. If any race would have a sniper with stagger resist it'd be Dvar.

Anyway the only change I'm looking to make to any snipers I have made is to give the amazon sniper an additional misc ability and perhaps rework their full attack. I'm not giving all snipers stagger resist.

Probably I was not clear. I am not asking to buff snipers, they are fine. I am asking to nerf new Kirko units with repeating range 7 attack, they are OP with production/upkeep bonuses. Removing shields/HP/some damage won't help IMHO. I had a fight with vanguard where I had more "troopers" then they had and I killed them all despite not having "overcharge", "jetpack" and "nanite injectors".

Righto,

Well right now I plan to
Reduce their damage from 10 to 9.
Reduce their Optimal range by (I think the weapon uses the same accuracy settings as Assault rfiles and the optimal range is 4, meaning anything beyond 4 suffers a penalty to accuracy for each hex beyond 4. I.E range 5 suffers -15%, 6 suffers -30% and 7 suffers -45%) Their new max penalty would be -60% at range 7 and they would suffering accuracy penalties at range 4.
And removing both armor and shields from the unit as they have swarm shield.
Edit: This also means that the kirko accuracy mod is more useful/needed on them.

I'll see about costs as well but overall these nerfs are quite big, it'll knock them down a peg but I want to keep them and not have them be useless.

Thank you, sounds good to me!

Done, see the change log.

I suggest to decrease attack of Indentured PsiTech, currently it is 8 psi while standard Indentured has 9 electro. 1 difference is not enough to compensate ignoring armour IMHO. It is especially noticable when attacking electric minerals.

Idk about that, Psi has inheriant disadvantages vs things like machines and mods like the psi fish's mind barrier

Not as syndicate who have easy access to arc too. I use just 2 types as indentured and don't need anything else to build (I am Xeno). Psi can be converted into flame/bio with a mod.