Now that the unit rosters for the vanilla factions are listed, I'd like to upload the EDB I've implemented, but I can't attach files to my posts here...
Anyone care to propose a good way to upload it (at least to get to the other developers)???
TO DO NOW:
Certain factions' unit rosters are rather thin, incomplete and not very representative of the era. The fact is that most western european factions fought using the same tactics and more or less same units. Eastern European and Muslim, as well as Mongol rosters are quite alright, except certain balancing issues and such... So, what we have to do after I pass around the EDB is to:
1) Add halberd and pike militias to all western factions. (halberd was quite a popular polearm - as things are now only the Germans, Poles (pun not intended
) and Hungarians have halberds)
2) Decide what to do with vanilla units that were already obsolete (eg those french or english dismounted knights) and those that were to become obsolete during the course of our timeline [I've included some older units (eg dismounted english knights, etc) to keep a balance between heavy infantry, ranged and cavalry units. But the fact is that such kind of units were obsolete even before the 1493/4 start date and generally replaced by more mobile and effective units - medium/heavy infantry (see the unarmored zei hander landsknecht above or the spanish sword and buckler men)]
3) Identify other gaps and choose more vanilla units that could fit in and complete other factions' rosters (eg I'd say that those spanish sword and buckler men could easily fit in most - if not all - western factions, reiters are also good for the french, etc)
4) Try to create variations on existing units to further complete the rosters (eg the Landsknecht pikemen armed with double handed swords or the german reiters armed with lancers - esp. relevant after I obsolete those gothic knights after the 1520s as I plan to)
5) Only after all that's done we can consider building completely new units to fill in whatever gaps are left
I expect some feedback on this from RTR Fan, the new Renaissance leader (... I'm personally an EB Fan though
)