What I change in SS
General changes
First all catolics european rooster need to have halebards units.Dont care if have different names, militia or not but these guys are something like a king talisman.Any king have a guard of halebards in ceremony.I think mailed knights is a very bad name, better will be the "knights".I think is a shame to see this guys at late games in 1400 with golden chevrons all upgrades maded and looking like a hunter vs a marine infantry.My suggestion is to allow 2 uprades why not 3 with adding better armor, better weapons and shields.Like an evolution from padded and mail to plate maybe.
One big problem is the muslim factions.They are boring, ugly and sometime more than wierd rooster excepting turks who in my opinion can be named "otomans".
Other thing I will change are the peasents.Lets face it none used them and a fork warrior look like dunno kids armed with rocks vs a abrams tank(the mounted knights?).
Bring back Timbuktu, was very nice to rich that city of proffit in the middle of nowere.In this map we have huge masses of land never used at all.
Is a shame in middle east kingdom of Cilicia is absent.They will change in good all aspects of the game and we have a lot a mercenearys to start a basic rooster.
About Factions
These is huge thing.
English:
Too much archers, really who need 4 units of elite archers, peasents archers and plus militia?Come on is not wierd is boring.2 are more than enought plus peasents and militia, or maybe militia archers changed to militia crossbows?
Their infantry sucks bad because 4 units of billmas.The heavy one are great bu I suggest to cut light ones and in towns recruit halebard militia and in castles nothing just a nice freespot.
I think last unit of navy is a must to be a good ship, they raise like challangers to spaniards so they need a good ship, a very good one.
Their bodyguards need to be better, their kings was like heroes most of time and they need an accent there.Loyalty was bad all time in english crown so I thing we need less loyalty similar like HRE.All thetime barons have contested their kings.
Scotts:
These faction in my opinion is very well maded except for 1 thing they look very, very ugly.I cant think nobils need to look so bad, monkeys are more nice than dublehanded swordsmans they look bad with ugly bearbs, long hair and most of units no chance to see difference from rabble to nobils.Is about small details but I think can be done easy.
Irish pub warriors:
Lot of people ask to be removed, In my opinion I am not agree.Are great, good rooster and a big problem for England.But I am not strongly against change them to other faction.Dunno maybe some strong(really strong)rebels can be an alternative.
Frenchies:
They are good near perfect, in my opinion is very good maded and I not seen what to change.
HRE:
I thing because is a mod is better to put them in a fusion with teutons.Like in 1280 to have available the teutons units or only when some building available/constructed.I thing I thing will be nice to implement are saw in other mod like ideea and is already used in SS.Units to be builded only in some regions.That will be more nice and than HRE will look how was in reality a federation of state under elected emperor.
Danemark and Norway:
What I change in their rooster will be the availability of stadard DFK/chilvaric.I see them like viking warriors lets keep them in this way.Why to have norse swordsmans and DFK?We can add to norse swordsmans similar atack/defence values and we have balance.Right?
Mounted huscarls for me are obsolete unit, ugly and not very usefull.We have feudal, bishops and chilvaric.Huscarls for what?Dont tell me about axes the maces of bishops work 10 times better, and they are a infantry rooster like all north europeans scotts, english...
Lituania for me are a nice flavour but I thing to add some light to their skins a drop of color and a bit better armor is not so bad ideea.
Novgorod and Kiev are great nice, distinctive and very good to use the huge russian planes maybe cossack mounted are a bit wierd?
Poland have 2 units available from start mounted crossbows and piasts.A bit overpowered?
Hungary is nice faction but 2 HA units make them like a nomad faction but they are no more.And mustache units like battlefield assasins make them like a ninja faction come on.Green, brown and red are not the best combination but their colors are huge improvements from vanilla.
Their expansion to south is bad, unbalanced and unhistorical.Most of time they have a love/hate story with 2 factions Poland and HRE not sieging Byzantium.We need to make the Balcan provinces very strong rebels, maybe a bulgarian faction can do this better?Dunno...
Byzzies.HA, heavy infantry, heavy cavalry all they need.The single recomendation is asimilation of all CBUR in SS.Is a fantastic job of that submod.
Turks are great but again we have some clone units, otoman archers, turkish archers and some crappy units like azabs and 2 units of spears in towns.Better is to add to their rooster some units like albanian infantry, armenian infantry/cavalry and why not serbian knights.In fact without janisary and spahys in ottoman army all conquered provinces sent their troops.And I am sure HA was a very small part of their army, very small.Too much HA and we have some mongol nomad armys not janisary flavor.Ah they beat mongols remains and asimilating them in army.We can have Turkish HA and a mongol HA.2 units of HA, just 2.And spahys mouted was something like a light lancers unit.
Templars let them how they are.
Persian Empire is the only muslim faction who was worked very well.In fact are very few things we can change there.
Cumans:
They have a very bad situation.They are in poor lands, very cheap and average units at low levels and very few atributes to survive well.I think they must treated like this in early age been nomad faction rooster with HA, light cavalry/infantry and archers.In late campaign they have the valachia like provinces no more russian field maybe 1 provinces in Caucasus.More european look in late campaign and is not a fantasy 300 years the Valachia have it cumans rulers.
Egyptus:
They have the same muslim flavor ugly portraits, and long shields for militia?
I thing saracens armors must be generalised and add in majority round covered with metal shields.
Moors are the most seen like trash of sahara in my opinion.Lot of crappy units and ugly looking.In my opinion their rooster need to be split in 2 things:saharan/north african and iberians.Delete all clone units with almost same stats and let make them a bit more over powered.The reconquista wasn't easy it last 400 years.Did you see how powerfull are iberians?
So some tuareg units, camel gunners, tuareg spearmans, camel lancers, desrt archers and a nubian gunners and the iberian/cristian equivalent.Shorter roosters but enought powerfull to make France to fell the power of maurs?
They need color, arabesque and maybe an counterbalans from a other muslim faction in Tunisia who existed hystorical?Important thing, north africa was not a desert, is not now just sand but 1000-2000 years ago was a very good farming area, and moors have it a very well irigation system been a very advanced technology civilisation.Other thing we need to have in mind because was a very tolerant faction I thing they need to cut the problems of religion, cristians or muslims living very all.
Iberians are ok in all aspects, good looking, good roosters but a bit too big like starting settlements.I thing spain can live with 2 provinces, portugal and aragon with 1.Yes will be hell but is a must to make them to have a lot of time before can achieve reconquista.And Moors can be more tolerant with them or maybe allied with spain at start.
Italians are great in many aspects but a bit too similar.I think make them more individual is great and this can be maded without stealing a spot for 1 new unit.We have 2 italians type of militia, 1 can be deleted.Are 2 types of xbows can be 1 recrutaible both in citys and castles.We have for them hangunners, arquebusiers and muasketeers.We can cut handgunners. They have armored and unarmored sargents we can cut the weak one.Sicily can share their Normand Knights with England(cutting the english Feudal Knights).
These are my ideeas, very personal and I open this topic for debate and teoretical improvement of this wonderfull mod.Dont blame me if not like my ideeas just add your opinions and corect me were I am wrong and I made mistakes.Thank you and I espect your feedback.
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Originally Posted by Deadly Rabbit
... Serbian nobles were vassals to Seljuk Empire after Battle of Kosovo Polje (Serbian Empire has already fallen apart after Car Dusans death). Christian children who were taken away from their mothers have formed the Jannisaries. I partially agree with Gogolometro,but i too think that Moors should definitely NOT be allies with Iberian kingdoms.
