More units; what would you like to see...

[Inhuman One]

I want mercenary regiments for the Dutch. They used a lot of them during this period, the army that Willem III landed in england with was little else than mercenaries.

Scots, Swiss, English and German mercenaries where used at times I believe. Their recruitment could be linked to the relations with the homecountry of these mercenaries. When a war breaks out, their recruitment would stop and the mercenaries could leave the army.

Next to that the Dutch could also have some elite infantry of their own.

Pistol armed cavalry is also something I want to see. Exellent for hit and run tactics. Carabineers and dragoons are just awkward to me. They cant even skirmish. Pistol armed cavalry could fire several shots and could do so while riding since firing a pistol would only require one free hand. I am not sure which nations should use it, but it should be there, could be a unit recruitable to multible nations.

[Van Diemen]

Next to that the Dutch could also have some elite infantry of their own.

Just take a look at this thread, me and jarnomiedema are making some new elite units for the Dutch. As well as the Swiss Guards for multiple nations.

[General_Meevious]

Those are awesome, Van Diemen (hey, I'm from Tas. what a coincidence!). The Holland's Guard should have faces exactly like the picture though.

Do you happen to know of any completely bizarre Dutch weapons or doctrines from this era? I had a scrounge around the internet and could find very little information in regards to Dutch warfare in this period, which surprised me.

I don't suppose there were any fire breathing windmills in this era?

[Samariten]

Its pretty obvious that CA left out all unit since they know the mod community will eventually make them...

[fingon]

Its pretty obvious that CA left out all unit since they know the mod community will eventually make them...

Yes and its our fault.. We should have whined about that, not creating our own. But on the other side, a lot of good work came out of that, but of course it takes a huge amount of time like 1 year to complete a good mod.

[♔Oggie♔]

The United Provinces were 7 states who were independant of each other but they were a union, I think you should have some differences in the clothing of the regiments because some came from Holland, some from Sealand etc.

I think we (and some other european countries) should have marines

and the line infantry for each country shouldn't just be the same they should have differences

[General_Meevious]

Also, I want to see highwaymen; rogue rakes who pick off special player characters for fun.

[Naxon]

what bothers me more is how they seem to have left out a bunch of units that already exist in the game.

has someone else gotten for example the conscript infantry (prisoners) or horse grenadiers, 'cause i sure haven't.

and there is alot of variety they could have done with the stats.
for example line infantry;

britain could have very good reload skill
prussia very good accuracy
sweden very good melee and morale
etc

those changes aswell as some variety in militia (both looks and stats) would make the game significantly better imo.

[the_mango55]

what bothers me more is how they seem to have left out a bunch of units that already exist in the game.

has someone else gotten for example the conscript infantry (prisoners) or horse grenadiers, 'cause i sure haven't.

and there is alot of variety they could have done with the stats.
for example line infantry;

britain could have very good reload skill
prussia very good accuracy
sweden very good melee and morale
etc

those changes aswell as some variety in militia (both looks and stats) would make the game significantly better imo.

You can only get conscripts as a republic.

Line infantry does have differences.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...highlight=line

[KozCDVI]

Individuality for units of different nations.
Eg, you have guards for pretty much all factions; which doesn't really work when you hover over American Guards 'A guard unit is assigned to protect the monarch' It would have been better if they found a historical unit that was sort of guard-like and stick them in instead.
British could have ...say Welsh Guards and Scots Guards (to replace Black Watch) as well as the Coldstream Guards as elite heavy infantry
French and other Europeans could have Swiss Guards and another 2 historical units to add flavour and finesse.

[Panzeh]

I would rather see some way to customize your own line infantry and other units' stats and make your own tradition, not be saddled with the tradition of Fredrick the Great when you play Prussia, for example.

[Tsar Brodsky]

I just wished the Cossacks weren't just Cossacks... damnit there wasn't just one group of Cossacks and most of them didn't serve as infantry and they certainly weren't just sub-par troops. I mean come on they were used in the Russian army all the way through the Revolution.
So more Cossacks (that don't suck).
More african native troops.
I would also love to see the Mughals get better infantry than those musketeers they get... though their lancers are amazing.
More than anything I wish their were more AoR units (and perhaps an AoR system akin to EB).

[Axe Battler]

Continental Marines of Course!!!

[l33tl4m3r]

Continental Marines of Course!!!

I am making a few marine regiments for various faction in one of my next releases.

[Sharzu]

Spartans from Halo or Zombies would be awesome.

[upsettingshorts]

I love Marines as much as the next guy, but, um - they fought on ships. US Marines excepted.

I would welcome linkage to prove me wrong, though.

/ships have marines already

[l33tl4m3r]

I love Marines as much as the next guy, but, um - they fought on ships. US Marines excepted.

I would welcome linkage to prove me wrong, though.

/ships have marines already

Figured I'd start here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._Royal_Marines


Battle of Bunker Hill for one, but I am sure you can find other references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill

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Hope this helps!

[Octovon]

The French got screwed out of their famous Swiss Guard. Hell, Switzerland as a whole got screwed out of this game, its a hole in the campaign map. I'm happy at least they have coureurs de bois, but a more region-specific Canadian militia would be awesome. A differentiation of the Cossacks would be nice as well. Most of all, the change to republic for France should bring with it the blue uniforms we all love from the Napoleonic Era.

[General_Meevious]

I mean all of them, sorry for not been more explicit, you know, hussars were used as a standar unit for almost all nations of the time frame but they are missin from nations on game which use them in their army ranks effectively, so i think they were/are one of the most representative military units of that historical period, stock still in the imaginery of the people since

No, you're right. They did a relatively good job on the four unique hussar units that they included in the game, but I agree that it's a real shame that they are not as widespread as they should be. I was more than a little bit disappointed at the lack of Swedish hussars

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... but at least the hussars they did bother with aren't clones, as most other units are.

I would certainly like to see more hussars.