This concept was inspired by SynergyShade's blog on special units and I have sort of expanded on that. Except with my new ideas.

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Alter-Egos are a different variant of a troop. Basically the differences between the original troop and its alter-ego is a difference in damage, health, housing space or any of its stats. Basically as the troop changes to its alter-ego variant one stat increases while another decreases (a simple example would be a health increase at the expense of damage).

It requires a building called, for now, the "Alterator", unlocked at TH8. Basically it's like a Laboratory, except the Alterator is built to alter troops from its normal version to that of its alter-ego and vice versa. The Alterator can do two things: research alterations for troops and alter the troops themselves. Once you have researched the alteration for a troop you will never have to pay the research fee again, but every time you wish to alter the troop or revert it back to normal, you must pay a (rather) small fee of Elixir, Dark Elixir and time. Certain alterations can only be researched with certain Alterator levels, which may require certain Town Hall levels.

The initial research fee costs Dark Elixir for normal troops and Elixir for DE troops, and is a pretty large amount. It will take a few days but after that you can freely swap between the altered version of the troop and the normal version of the troop.

The altered version, if used, will be trained in the normal Barracks or Dark Barracks in place of the normal version.

Stats of the Alterator:

Cost to alter and revert troops after research:

For provisional stats of altered troops see my blog for more info.