[rdonj]

Woo, lots of changes.

I've gotten the pirate scout event 3 times in my current insect game (halted temporarily due to meeting r'lyeh and realizing there was no way I could fight them), and I got it a few times in the orc game I was playing recently also. I haven't seen oni dragons as a random event so I'm pretty sure you don't get them anymore.

I didn't think males should be stronger for a couple of reasons. The first being that most races are a fair amount weaker in space than on land, and the insectoids possibly having strong space units seems strange. And it's not like they're weak either, they can defeat even large groups of space krakens reasonably well with their current stats without too many losses. They perform at least reasonably on par with other races units for space duty, and flying units with multiple attacks can easily become overpowered if you're not careful. My suggestion would probably be to make them autosummons, instead of dom summons, and have them come in batches of 2 at a time. That way you would be able to break into space faster but you wouldn't get huge amounts of males later on. You could maybe do 3 instead but that might be too much.

I was aware of the spell from amos' mod, but when I was playing them in dom3k I didn't see it so I figured you probably disabled it. It's fine if they don't get it, it just seemed like a fun idea. If they do get something like that though it should be really expensive/hard to research, because I think females have 160 leadership... having that many units show up suddenly anywhere they want would be pretty scary.

I think all the commonwealth melee weapons should be ap. If you think about it, the only units in the game that don't have either ap or an melee weapons are militia and illithids. Actually you could almost consider giving the heavy commonwealth infantry AN weapons... they don't have shields, so there's not a lot of incentive to recruit them as is. But not some kind of crazy weapon that gives them strength plus weapon damage with an... but better than space marines 4 an tasers.