Originally Posted by
onefistedboxer
Your right, in that the names dont have to determine how good a unit is and historical accuracy is way overrated but i think that there should be more to a tech tree than the units just getting better at a perfectly balanced rate, factions should get their best units at different times.
If you gave units the ability to upgrade their armour fully you could create an incentive for the armour upgrades and keep balance. In this way for example the Norman Knights, who are supposed to be good quality troops, could be cheaper than men at arms and have lower defence, but keep their highly trained attributes and perhaps high attack, then they could be upgraded to the same armour as men at arms and become superior in every way but slow and expensive to recruit/equip.
Then the men at arms could be used as quickly created troops and the upgraded Norman Knights as part of well prepared armies - making battles more diverse.
But i realise this is a big ask!!
also the religious fanatics have a really low attack when its normally high.