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Regarding the powerhouse that is the SDM, I've been doing more mechanic checking in other mods for an attempt at turning the fairies into an official faction with several unique mechanics, by combining them with outsiders (both of them are largely downtrodden parties viewed as the bottom of the Gensokyo foodchain) and having their gimmick being using reclaimed ordinance from past wars with human auxiliaries forming the spearhead of the faction in much the same way kappa form the powerhouse of Youkai mountain.

The basic idea would be that they alongside the Lunarians would be the primary factions using semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms (while also updating the AI to properly utilize automatic weapons to make certain Lunarian units significantly more dangerous, as well as utilize more "modern" tactics such as fire and maneuver, utilization of cover, and suppressive fire), up to and including crew-served weapons, with said firearms along the bolt-action (later upgraded to semi-automatic) and HMG lines being both accurate and armor-piercing, allowing the latter to counter chaos/scarlet knights that attempt to charge them head-on, while the former can reliably kill multiple maids of a tier or two higher by largely ignoring their armor and taking potshots at them from both a longer range, more accurately, and faster than their crossbow counterparts, in essence making the outsider the "anti-maid" corps.

Their main deficiencies would be the fact that the AI counts them as far weaker units than they are on the field when it comes to NPC/NPC auto-resolve due to their low skills, the difficulties in maintaining several different ammunition types with ammunition in general being scare to come by without questing on the player's part, and possibly downgrading their effectiveness against youkai units (luckily, Tinder has made the race distinction clearer and that function can be backported to the main fork), so their devastating firepower is really only devastating when fighting human/fairies like the SDM, as well as a hard unit cap that dictates the maximum number of outsider units the fairy rebellion can possess, necessitating the backbone of the faction be filled with fairies, who with enough upgrades might start wielding firearms themselves, but with less efficiency than their outside peers.

Statistically, outsiders have more health than their SDM counterparts for a given tier, but are otherwise inferior on average with worse skills, possessing slightly better armor at lower tiers that end up getting eclipsed by the maids in higher tiers and of course, no shields.

Other ideas include making the fairies and outsiders separate minor factions with weaker initial unit line that automatically merge if one or the other is threatened by the SDM, or making both factions conditional ones that only exist if certain events transpire while Cirno remains unclaimed as a companion, with other ideas being the outsider faction led by Sariel, Sumereko (maybe not led directly, but Sumi is an important figure), or Cirno alongside ice fairies. Character-wise, outsiders are modeled after the unfortunate bandits of Dolls of Pseudo-Paradise, and are one of the few largely male unit lines in the game.

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I might or might not be preparing something to address that...