Diamond Dogs

Diamond Dogs are known for their mischievousness, curiosity and obsession with crystals.

Diamond dogs are sentient canine creatures who live underground. They originated in the deep mountains of East Griffonia, in the Riverlands to be precise, which became known as Diamond Mountain. Thanks to their ability to use claws effectively, they are able to extract resources, and most importantly, can dig tunnels and trenches with ease. However, they lack the magical abilities of ponies, changelings, and griffons.

Lore

Same as griffons and dragons, diamond dogs are known for their endless greed and selfishness. They are obsessed with gemstones, especially diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and crystals. They value their wealth above everything else, and thus their society is traditionally hierarchical where the rich minority rules over the poor majority. Unlike most other civilizations, diamond dogs have wide-scale slavery.

Slavery has existed in diamond dog society for more than a thousand years and still survives to this day. The poorest and weakest diamond dogs are used for dangerous tasks such as mining and warfare, while the richest and strongest ones rule the country, rule the others and enjoy luxurious lives. 

Because diamond dogs are proficient miners, they can amass vast riches in their subterranean homes without much outside interference. Their Kings Under the Mountain jealously guard their wealth, accrued by using a large caste of slaves. The magical crystals that they extract are the most valuable wealth they have. Unlike the ponies, who use crystals for scientific and/or militaristic purposes, the dogs use them as "measurement" in everyday lives, such as currency, social status and so on. 

Racial Tech

 Ironpaws

The Ironpaws divisions are good for their high organisation and small bonus to soft attack. Because of their organisation, you can use them as the breakthrough divisions - for their attacks can be sustained longer than most infantry divisions, or you can use them defensively, to hold the line for a long time.

Ironpaws Division I

Enables Ironpaws

Heavily armoured dog warriors, akin to griffon knights, these soldiers are particularly adept in establishing fortifications and operating in rough territory, such as mountains and underground tunnels. They are considered to be the military elite, and wield the finest weapons that can be provided.

Ironpaws Division II

• Ironpaws Soft Attack: +5%
• Ironpaws Organization: +5

Subjecting the Ironpaw recruits to harsher training regimen will improve their cohesion in battle, as well as improving their accuracy with rifles.

Ironpaws Division III

• Ironpaws Defense: +5%
• Ironpaws Organization: +5
• Unlocks Special Project: Assault Tunnel Vehicle

Continued improvements to our Ironpaws' armour and arms will ensure their supremacy on the battlefield.

Ironpaws Division IV

• Ironpaws:
  • Organization: +5
  • Mountain:
    • Attack: +5%
    • Defense: +5%

As wars grow ever more destructive and deadly, our soldiers must adapt to the changing conditions with new training drills.

Ironpaws Division V

• Ironpaws:
  • Organization: +5
  • Hills:
    • Attack: +5%
    • Defense: +5%

Pride of the Diamond Dogs, Ironpaws are entitled to the best designs our engineers can come up with. Our success rests on their continued high performance.

Ironpaws Division VI

• Ironpaws:
  • Organization: +5
  • Hills:
    • Movement: +5%
  • Mountain:
    • Movement: +5%

From their humble origins as a shock melee batallion, Ironpaws have become an unparalleled force, equipped with contemporary heavy firearms, able to take on any foe and come out on top.

 Mining and Industry

Because of their specialty, they can have a decent amount of bonuses about mining and underground construction. With them plus the bonuses from the industrial trees. The combined bonuses are a force to be reckoned with.

Extractive Metallurgy

• Resource Gain Efficiency: +15%

Few species can claim to be as proficient and skilled in digging and burrowing tunnels as the Diamond Dogs. From an early age, pups are known to bore their own tunnels, searching for the mineral goods hidden beneath the ground. Although industrial mining is not done with bare paws, it remains a priority to improve our equipment and improve safety standards, so that dogs may continue to profit from the riches of the earth.

Underground Construction

• Construction Speed: +5%
• Factory Bomb Vulnerability: -25%
• Factory Repair Speed: +10%

Most dogs prefer living under the ground, and few venture to the surface by choice. Subterranean environment breeds a hardy species, and the need for safety and protection of our riches makes it necessary to construct vast cities and vaults beneath the surface.

Underground Construction II

• Max Factories in a State: +15%
• Factory Bomb Vulnerability: -10%

Improved architecture and design are making it more feasible to expand our underground cities, while ensuring they are not in danger from collapses. Our foes will find it particularly difficult to disrupt our industrial output, with almost all factories located safely in the deeper reaches.

Heavy Machinery In Mining

• Unlocks Special Project: Deep Rock Drill
• Resource Gain Efficiency: +10%
• Infrastructure construction speed: +10%

It is not enough to rely on strength to excavate ore - heavy machinery must be imported, built and utilised to expand our mining operations, while the unrefined ore is processed and turned into a useful material much quicker than before.

Industrial Growth

• Production Efficiency Cap: +10%
• Factory Output: +10%
• Dockyard Output: +10%

Few things make the dogs happier than a long day at the forge, creating both consumer goods and military equipment for their nation. It is vital to modernise our production centres, so that the state as a whole may benefit and progress further.

Modern Mining Industry

• Resource Gain Efficiency: +10%
• Infrastructure construction speed: +5%

Unparalleled in both our resource output and technologies utilised in the process, the Diamond Dogs are at the forefront of any major excavation project in the world.

Military

Mountain Home

Leg Infantry:

• Mountain Movement: +10%
• Hill Movement: +5%

The dog biology makes them particularly adapt in crossing rough environment, such as hills and mountains. Training our soldiers how to be better handle the terrain while carrying heavy equipment would improve the speed of our operations.

Mountain Training

Leg Infantry:

• Mountain Attack: +15%
• Mountain Defence: +5%
• Hill Attack: +7%
• Hill Defence: +3%

Specialised tactics and strategies are required to perform optimally in the rough terrain dogs call home.

Defensive Tunneling

• Enemy Air Support: -20%
• Division Defense: +10%
• Max Entrenchment: +2
• Damage Reduction Against CAS: +20%

There is no firmer trench than one located underground. Our foes' numbers and airplanes will matter little once they are forced to attack us in our underground fortifications.

Offensive Tunneling

• All Infantry and Mot/Mech: Breakthrough: +10%
• Enemy Air Support: -20%
• Damage Reduction Against CAS: +20%

Few species read the ground as well as the dogs. Trained sappers will bypass enemy fortifications with multiple tunnels from which our forces can attack, trapping the defenders from both sides.

Advance Fortifications

• Land Fort construction speed: +20%
• Coastal Fort construction speed: +10%

The sheer amount of resources dogs possess makes it particularly easy for them to establish defences wherever they are needed, in a short amount of time.

Mountaining Training II

• Mountain Attack: +5%
• Mountain Defence: +5%
• Hill Attack: +3%
• Hill Defence: +2%

Further improvements in our mountain fighting tehniques will make dogs the unmatched force when it comes to battles on our terrain of choice.

Advanced Tunneling

• Engineer Company:
  • Entrenchment: +100%
  • Leg Infantry Entrenchment: +0.10
• Armored Engineer Company:
  • Entrenchment: +100%
  • All Infantry & Mot/Mech Entrenchment: +0.10
• Entrenchment Speed: +20%
• Enemy Air Support: -20%
• Damage Reduction Against CAS: +20%

A Diamond Dog tunnel is perhaps the safest place one can be during an air raid. It is simply very wasteful to destroy the very ground itself, even with modern explosives.