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Combat Adjustments

I believe this collection of tweaks will make conquest a little more challenging, and also promote the use of a more varied army composition.

All pre-ancient units have maintenance cost increased from 0 to 1. The palace provides 7 gold (up from 5) to alleviate this extra cost at the start of the game. Maintenance of pikemen has increased from 2 to 3, maintenance of Impi has increased from 1 to 2, and maintenance of AT crew has increased from 4 to 6.

Promoting units heals for 20 HP (down from 50), and pillaging farms and similar improvements grants gold instead of HP. Fortification now provides a maximum of +6 defense (up from +4). All types of forts can now be built in woods and rainforest, and provides +6 defense (up from +4). Engineers have been moved from the military engineering tech to the engineering tech, so that they unlock earlier. They can build forts immediately, without needing the siege tactics-technology. Engineers no longer require an armory to be built, and production cost has been reduced from 170 to 100.

The strength of the following units has been adjusted:
- Spearmen: 25 -> 30
- Pikemen: 41 -> 43
- Musketmen: 55 -> 56
- Pike and shot: 55 -> 54
- Infantry: 70 -> 74
- At crew: 70 -> 72
- Modern AT: 80 -> 83
- Slingers: 5 -> 1
- Archers: 15 -> 11
- Crossbowmen: 30 -> 26
- Field Cannons: 50 -> 46
- Machine guns: 65 -> 61
- Destroyer: 80 -> 82
- Nuclear submarine: 80 -> 75

Some other unit attributes has also been adjusted:
- Slingers: Range 1 -> 2
- Quadriremes: Range 1 -> 2
- Destroyers: Movement 4 -> 5
- Submarines: Movement 3 -> 4
- Battleships: Movement 5 -> 4
- Battleships: Range 3 -> 4
- Missile cruisers: Range 3 -> 4
- Tanks: Sight 2 -> 1
- Modern armor: Sight 2 -> 1
- Destroyers and submarines can no longer reveal enemy submarines.
- The "vs anticav"-ability of melee-units, and the "vs cavalry"-ability of anticavalry-units, has been reduced in strength from +10 to +5.

Various unit classes has some new attributes:
- Melee units like warriors and spearmen have +5 strength when fighting in woods, rainforest, or a district.
- Ranged units like archers have +5 strength when defending in forts and hills.
- Cavalry units like horsemen and knights have +5 strength when attacking on flat, open terrain (no hills/fort/district/woods/rainforest)
- Cavalry units also have -7 strength when attacking walled districts and units in forts.
- Recon units ignore enemy zone of control, but do not exert zone of control themselves.
- Recon units gain +1 sight after the astronomy-technology is unlocked.
- Spec Ops units can scale cliff walls.
- Destroyers have +5 strength when fighting against submarines.
- Late-game artillery units (battleship, artillery guns, missile cruiser, rocket artillery) gain the ability to attack support units directly.

The combat strength of the crusade-belief has been reduced from +10 to +5. The name of a few units has been changed. For example, "Infantry" has been renamed "Rifleman", and Modern Armor" has been renamed "Main Battle Tank".