Texas Brigade

"At the yelled words of command the soldiers sprang forward in eager leaps. There was new and unexpected force in the movement of the regiment. ... He could feel the onward swing of the regiment about him and he conceived of a thunderous, crushing blow that would prostrate the resistance and spread consternation and amazement for miles."
—Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
==In game==
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 	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.	Unique Texan elite assault infantry unit. Cannot entrench like normal Naval Infantry, but has increased attack range and training speed.
*Strong versus cavalry.
*Weak versus massed infantry, artillery.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed	 	
* [4]
* 	9.6s(144t) 	230 	13 	34 	2.1s(28t) 	27 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
: 90;: 70 	: 3;: 2 	1 	 	5 	0–13 	
*+1 splash attack radius.
*Atack bonus versus non-Industrial Age units.
*Defensive bonuse versus melee cavalry, but cannot entrench.	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
===Overall strategy===
Should function somewhat like US Marines, but has no entrench ability. Rather, it has an added attack, +2 Armour and a slightly faster train time so these units can be replenished fairly quickly. Also should have the same anticav bonus enjoyed by shock troops/assault infantry....but dunno when this can be implemented.
====Notes====
Split off the grey skin unit used currently by Regulars. Introduce a new unit with a different colour scheme and appearance.
==History==
The Texas Brigade was organized on 22nd October 1861, in Richmond, Virginia and consisted of five infantry regiments of as many as 4,400 men. These soldiers would be the only Texas troops to fight in the Eastern Theater. Much later, it would also include not just new recruits from Texas itself, but also units from Texas' sister Confederate states, particularly that of Arkansas, whose Third Arkansas Infantry would stay as part of the Texas Brigade until the very end of the war
The brigade served throughout the war in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and in James Longstreet's First Corps, and developed a reputation as a shock troop formation pariticipating in over two dozen battles for the entire duration of the war, including the battles of Gettysburg and Antietam. It was praised by generals Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, Robert E Lee and other luminaries of the Confederacy, but also developed notoriety for ruthlessness, as well as suffering horrific losses: afther Antietam itself in 1862, only one in five soldiers in the Brigade remained alive and fit enough to continue fighting.
===References===
*Texas State Historical Association; Hood's Texas Brigade