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EpsTweak for Support Units

EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets.


The Support Unit mechanic of the base game feels lacking and underutilized, offering only one potential option at a time for each combat unit that you choose to support. This is a bit of a downer since Support Units have the potential to solve some particularly tricky design problems in the game - sieges of cities with few approachable land tiles, tactical manouvering, movement through rough terrain, you name it. So this mod adds 5 new Support units and 2 new policies to train them faster:

Shieldbearer: Unlocked at Military Training. Grants the non-cavalry land unit in its tile +4 Combat Strength while defending.

Pathfinder: Unlocked at Mercenaries. Ignores movement penalties through Woods, Rainforest, and Hills, and pulls any land units linked with it in an Escort Formation when ordered to move.

Demolition Crew: Unlocked at Siege Tactics. Has a short-ranged Bombard attack effective against districts (+20 Strength). Severely less effective against other targets.

Modern Demolition Crew: Unlocked at Chemistry. Stronger version of the Demolition Crew.

Sniper Team: Unlocked at Advanced Ballistics. Has a ranged attack that's effective against Melee, Ranged, and Anti-Cavalry units (+20 Strength). Severely less effective against other units, but is able to Priority Target enemy Support units.


Citizen-soldiers: Military policy unlocked at Military Training. +50% Production toward Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Support units.

Mandatory military service: Military policy unlocked at Nationalism. +50% Production toward Support units. Obsoletes Citizen-soldiers and is itself obsoleted by Defense of the Motherland.