Quick suggestion: Ethereals without guns

[Hythlodaeus]

Here's a quick suggestion to make ethereals an even more interesting and dangerous race to battle: replace all weapons (save for blaster launchers and other explosives) with some kind of psionic beam fired from their hands, which equals the damage and precision of a heavy plasma. This would make it impossible to completely disarm a Ethereal, and would also make your task extra-hard if your men are running short on ammo, and could use a few extra clips snatched from enemy corpses.

Added to that, I always thought most weapons looked a bit off on Ethereals, given their ominous, wizard-like appearance.

Love/hate? Any thoughts?

[MKSheppard]

I like it. Alternately, you could make a variant of this where the Ethereals are completely weaponless except for their psonic powers, which have been beefed up a bit or reduced in TU cost, so they can attack you more often.

[moriarty]

I think this makes sense only when we allow mixed teams. otherwise you could easily finish off ethereals using tanks

if we ever allow mixed alien teams (where for example a few mutons and sectoids are commanded by an ethereal) it would be very cool, however.

[luke83]

If we are going to Beef up PSI ( for NON VANILLA GAME) some new PSI Rules would be good.

1: Range base PSI - Does not need to be Line of site  ( as you should be able to ZAP someone behind  a wall IF a team mate can see them) but do a distance check and reduct power when out of this distance.
2: Remote Viewing - Upgrade version of Motion sensor but just show map and enemy position)
3: Psi Blast ( with special damages - Knockback , Stun)
4: Allow control of Civilians ( and get them to grab guns and fight for aliens)


Sorry for Off Topic