Maybe bushes could be passable by tanks, but cannot be destroyed when passed by them (unlike trees) and have speed penalty for all ground units.

That'd be a nice design idea but rendering units over it would look terrible, I think.

What if units were translucent when inside bushes? Or hidden until detected by a detector unit?

You mean cloaked, similarly to the submarines.

For the enemy: Maybe hidden / invisible unless revealed by a detector or when they attack. When revealed, they become translucent.

For the player and allies: translucent.

So the normal cloak effect then. Maybe only pods could hide in it.

We could try hiding both pods and vehicles and see what happens.

IMO it is not needed.

It's really just to have more tiles for map creation. I feel like we need more tiles: maps are getting redundant.

It's really just to have more tiles for map creation. I feel like we need more tiles: maps are getting redundant.

Agreed. This will give more options for ground units. Maybe this bush idea could be extended for water units too? Hiding both pods and vehicles in it seems like a power boost vs air, for example, if there are bushes around the base (not too close from the Main Base).

Indeed: especially with the new pod woods hiding ability thing. Plus, it'll be a nice addition to make more interesting swampy maps: right now the only thing we can do is add those swamp/acid liquid tiles and make the world lighting darker and greener.

They sure look very nice, but I am not sure if the ones you picked fit in as in leaf size might be too large for the RTS perspective and I don't know if they tile properly. I think the stealing from Tyrian has also been overdone by now.

Sure, the tyran tiles were just an example to give an idea of what it'd look like.