An idea for amphibious unit's shapes and properties :D

ZK has always intended that amphibious units be robots because they need to be able to climb robot-level slopes. Although since the spiders have externally-extended legs, having the Amphibs have insectoid legs underneath some kind of shell/skirt, differentiating them from the externally-exposed spider legs.

So your idea is that the amphib lab be some big Tank-scale lab? Or are you suggesting a Strider?

I would like to see morphable units.
( land-sea )

They should only be morphable at the shoreline and it's morph should cost nothing but a very small amount of time ( like 3 or 5 seconds ).

The amphibous counterpart can be a bit faster/slower or have a different turn rate/radius.

Fins can enhance the movement. The high density of water makes units less heavy and allow them to use more mass for the engine instead of spacers and shock absorbers.
If they are morphable, we can use 2 different movement categories.

I imagine a unit which has a beam weapon like mace.

There should be 2 virtual weapons - one common laser and one which replaces the other one if the unit is submersed.
The common laser is something like the LLT one ( or a weaker HLT ).
The replacement is a short ranged version with a heat-ray-like fall-off-rate.

It should be able to either fire land-[w1]->land, sub-[w2]->sub, land-[w2]->sub or sub-[w2]->land. w1 and w2 are the both weapons.

amphious units in mission editor:
grebe ambhibious raider bot
-cost 300
-max hp 900
-speed 2.4

gnadade launcher
-damage 480 'note can shoot only in land
-reload time 3.0
-damage/second 160
-range 360

no help text avaible to this unit

duck amphibious skrimisher
-cost 250
-max hp 620
-speed 1.6

gyrojet
-damage 50
-reloadtime 0.8
-damage/second 67
-range 440

no help text avaible to this unit

clam amphibious con/rez
-cost 200
-max hp 1500
-speed 1.8
-energy +0.2
-builpower 9
clam is sturdy constructor that works in deep sea aswell it does in land

angler amphibious torbedo/AA bot
-cost 350
-max hp 1200
-speed 1.6

torbedo *only in water
-damage 180
-reloadtime 2.5
-damage/second 7.2
-range 450

flak cannon *omly in land
-damage 100
-reloadtime 0.8
-damage/second 133
-range 900

no help text avaibled to this unit

grizly amphibious assault walker
-cost 2200
-max hp 10000
-speed 1.6

fletchette *i dont know what this weapom looks like
-damage 384
-reloadtime 2.0
-damage/second 192
-range 200

the grizly is a classic assault unit - realtivy slow,clumsy and next to ünstoppadle. its weapon is slow but powerful fletchette cannon

Amphibious operaitons plant
-cost 550
-max hp 4000
-energy +0.2
-builpower 9

can buil all amhibious units and all subs:lancelet(new),snake,serpent
if on land it cant buil subs(my text)

ambhibious operations plant buils bots and submarines(when underwater),provoiving an alternative approach to land/sea warfare(games help text)

I think he's just informing us of what's there right now.

There are some things I worry about the amphib plant - like how most of the planned amphib units all seem to be "underwater" units or "land" units, unlike hovers that function just fine in both scenarios.

That and I worry about balancing the amph raider. Having strong raids comign from the water really changes things. I'd split it up - have a torpedo raider that functions as AA on land, have a fast-ish assault unit with the planned underwater regen, and have a light crawling bomb.

The shelled-spiders and bullets are just ideas... and no one is going to make it anyway. Existing amphibious is more likely to be used IMO. eg: I did saw recent updates with existing amphi units...

Meh, the naval game needs something anyways... although I don't know if amphibs are it.