While idly wandering Zeal in Chrono Trigger, I thought it would be cool if we could do something like that in SMAC... perhaps in the expantion (yeah right!) But anyway...
New base facility: Levitron. Basically, it "levitates" the base square and the 8 squares around it into a flying hunk o land. I wil refer to it as a 'mountain.'
Movement: 3-4 squares/turn. Can't move over terrain higher then 3000.
Moved: mountain comes up like a unit does. It can be moved like a gravship though the skies. Of course, it can't "land" in a base like gravships do.
Landing: A mountain could land it any of the 'holes' where one of these things used to be, or in the ocean to create it's own island.
Restrictions: obviously, only air units could land on it. Perhaps drop pod units too.
Combat: Although they can't fight themselves, artillery units on the land around it could be VERY effective (imagine the altitude bonus!)
Also, artillery could attack the land squares of an enemy mountain. Since it would be rather annoying to give the land squares a life bar, it could just be a % chance. If the attack suceeds, the piece of land crubles and falls. Any units or terrain improvements it lands on are destroyed. If it lands on a base, then 20,000 people and two facilities would be destroyed.
Once all the other land squares are broken away, you could try to destroy the main square. This would have a lower % chance of sucess, but if you actually DO destroy it, the entire enemy mountain falls to the ground and is complety destroyed.
As an alternative, you could simply 'move' you mountain inot the enemy's. The % chance of land crumbling would be higher, but your land would be at risk too.
And of course, if you move up to an enemy mountain, land units could swarm across and try to take the enemy mountain. Of course, if they destroy the base, then it will fall and all your units will be destroyed with it...
Other then that, it is a normal base. The rest of the base radius (and any sections that are destroyed in war) can't be harvested, so they could never get TOO big.
Just an idea of mine. Doesn't add much to the game itself, but it would be fun do have these things floating around.
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- Jasonian
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