Tsardoms Total War - FACTION PREVIEW: Principality of Wallachia

[Visarion]

...Also, if i could get to code that, in alliance with Bulgaria or Hungary, their mercenaries will be available as upgraded, with higher morale...

very interesting! also try making factions controlled by AI keep their alliances...

[Matthæus]

As long as the upkeep is not exagerated like the one the mercenaries from other mods.You could give them a bigger recruting price but please make the upkeep cost effective.
So the recrutable mercenaries are troops recruted from ''barracks'' with negative effects.So i can build one of those near Hungary to counter their heavy cavalry and near Bulgarian border i could build economical buildings considering their cavalry is not as heavy as the Hungarian one.


Still keep in mind that Wallachia compared to Bulgaria is weaker in melee,more vulnerable to missiles,more vulnerable at charges and only better in ranged combat.
This is still speculation,maybe you will balance wallachian shock troops to have high defence so they can stand up in a long melee and not bet all on the initial charge and hope the enemy morale breacks because that will not work with knights and boyors fighting on foot.
There is always time for balancing after the first release.Just speaking my mind.

Two words about you and the rest of the team : awesome work

mercenaries- idea is that they are a common sight in any army. they will be used more often that in vanilla mtw2.

bulgaria vs wallachia
boyeri and other plate armor cavalry units give advantage to wallachia in terms of stronger cavalry charge, but they cost more.
we will know more after we properly test those factions in game. until then it is just a speculation.

[ShockBlast]

mercenaries- idea is that they are a common sight in any army. they will be used more often that in vanilla mtw2.

Nice but keep the upkeep at normal levels,the recruting price and the negative effects of the buildings should be enough.

bulgaria vs wallachia
boyeri and other plate armor cavalry units give advantage to wallachia in terms of stronger cavalry charge, but they cost more.

I was speaking about units that can absorb the charge and while Wallachia might be a bit better at cavalry charges it's inferior at absorbing them due to lack of spearmen.

we will know more after we properly test those factions in game. until then it is just a speculation.

You are right.
Cheers.

[Matthæus]

Nice but keep the upkeep at normal levels,the recruting price and the negative effects of the buildings should be enough.
I was speaking about units that can absorb the charge and while Wallachia might be a bit better at cavalry charges it's inferior at absorbing them due to lack of spearmen.
You are right.
Cheers.

so you counter a charge with a -charge. attack is best defense

[MeAgain]

I don't think that works against cavalry.

[slavic_crusader]

ohhh it does

[Wallachian]

Also, it's good for a faction to have certain weaknesses and strengths. For Wallachia a strength would be the many types of ranged units and possibly as a weakness a lack of heavy spearman.

[SerbianInfantry]

Agree, if you make everybody strong in everything, you would get same boring battles with every faction. It is more interesting to do a little better against some factions and work a little harder against some other faction.

[Jan III Sobieski]

Nice preview.

[MeAgain]

Agree, if you make everybody strong in everything, you would get same boring battles with every faction. It is more interesting to do a little better against some factions and work a little harder against some other faction.

True. Balance is the key.

[Visarion]

well Wallachian units with great attack and not that great defence is a good plan because Wallachian Vojvods used surprise attacks and ambushed the enemy troops in forrests and hills. They used the terrain in their advantage and destroyed much more numerous armies because of the tactics they applied and because of the loyalty of their soldiers. So shock troops for Wallachia is a good decision!

[il_duce_!]

Phoenix didnt upload the new horses that we made.

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[slavic_crusader]

why do they look serbian with eagle and colurs?

[phoenix[illusion]]

@il_duce
i didn't have them on my lap top. but i'll add them now

[il padrino]

Phoenix didnt upload the new horses that we made.

Awesome !!!

[Wallachian]

Awesome looking horses, so much better than the vanilla ones!

why do they look serbian with eagle and colurs?

Not sure about the colours (blue and yellow were the traditional colours of Wallachia, red is usually associated with Moldiavia), but the eagle is definetly a traditional Wallachian eagle.

A few variations of the eagle exist:

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[slavic_crusader]

No not that eagle. I meant the one the shield. ANd now i just relaized its single headed eagle. Me and my eyes dohhh!!

[Wallachian]

Ah, hadn't even noticed the one on the shield. Not sure bout that one, it does seem to be one headed though (I agree it woudn't be a Wallachian eagle if it had 2 heads), might just be a different version of the one on the flag

[phoenix[illusion]]

Boiar Crests



there's the eagle. romano told me which colors to use, and let me combine it

[Wallachian]

Great crests pheonix, never seen them before but I had assumed they were some sort of boyar heraldry Do you have the information as to what family the crests belonged to? (Just for my curiosity)