moor questions

[Winston]

Hi Guys!

I’m new to this forum and wanted to thank everybody working on this mod for their great work.

I’m currently playing as the moors and i’ve got some questions.
After a little “googling” I found sources that the early Moorish warfare derived from the wf of nomadic tribes … so that means : every loss hurts if you want to survive in desert regions … so … no armor, be fast, strike from the distance and … since the enemy will probably use the same strategy … at least defend yourself with a big shield!
After they came to spain they began to adopt a more western style of warfare. Less javelins more spears and armor… and of course “heavy” cavalry

I also found sources that Slavic slaves were used.

Is that true?


I’m just asking because I want to know if my current faction changes are not completely fantasy
-Christian Guards are now mercenaries (I just don’t think that there were that much Christian knights in al-Andalus … mercenaries of course…like varagian guard)
-Added a new saqaliba unit to the roster (I currently use Lithuanian noble sons as soldiers and made them a late professional unit and removed Moorish axemen)
-Removed the desert raiders (reason … text above )
-Replaced them with Sudanese tribesmen
-Removed Arabian infantry and cavalry(the Arabs were the “top” of the society … so I don’t think they would serve as light armored spearmen since the mass of the troops were berbers, Sudanese and Slavic slaves, Christian mercenaries
-Added Andalusian infantry as a local unit
-Removed Hashishim
-Added camel archers

Things to do
-Mod most infantry units to use big shields (especially lamtuna and Nubian spearmen)
-And on and on and on…

What do you think??


Thanks for help,

[Point Blank]

Sounds pretty reasonable. Its acknowledged that all the Islamic factions could do with some attention.

[Maltacus]

This thing about Christian Guard from vanilla is just absurd. As if the moors would have lacked heavy cavalry themselves. I also changed their name.

-Added Andalusian infantry as a local unit
-Added camel archers
-Mod most infantry units to use big shields (especially lamtuna and Nubian spearmen)

Sounds good. These things would be a nice change in RC/RR I think.

I also found sources that Slavic slaves were used.

Is that true?

No idea, I have never heard of it. But slave trade at the time was widespread and the Mediterranean Sea allowed fast transports (fast at the time) from eastern to western Europe.