polish units

[chomskola]

Hi guys, I just downloaded CTW and ive been playing it for a little while, i know its in early beta stage but there appears to be no distinctive polish units..im a bit of a stickler for slavonic warriors and although i liked the good work on city names the lack of polaks made me any news on that front?







Lyndo!

[Atterdag]

Well what can yo suggest of uniqe Polish units?

[DaVinci]

Hm, we have had several polish team members, and i guess they went fine with this design. Eventually it is possible to provide one or two unique units in a future Early Era patch, if somebody will mod those units. So if you have detailed suggestion/description would be a start.

[Shadow_Imperator]

'Poczty':
Poor Knights of the Polish Nobility, these 'Poczty' are grizzly prinsoners of war, too poor to pay themselves out of ransom and henceforth choose rather to fight for their new masters than rot in prison. The 'Poczty', although, due the nature of serving new masters, may give a false impression of dubious loyalty, this is however, a very inaccurate assumpton made by many throughout the Medieval world. The 'Poczty', much like the rest of the Polish Nobility, and on that note, much of the entirety of Poland, are fanatically driven to defeand the boarders of their beloved country. Well equipped by their masters, these Knights and Squires of war are very well suited to combat enviroments, especially that of the great 'Steppe'. These men ride on swift horses into battle, even though they are well armoured, although not the heaviest mounted knights in Europe, this however, combined with their fighting `elan, make the Retainers of the 'Poczty' some of the best medium cavalrymen of their time. The 'Poczty' cavalrymen are swift and decisive, and with their 'Kopia', or cavalry lances, their charge is deadly, so repeated cavalry charges are what these cavalrymen do best. When in pursuit, their sabres can do untold damage to routers and undiscipline infantry that fail to 'hold the line'.


Another couple of Polish suggestions:

Lipka Tatar Cavalry - Tough hourse archers of Mongol/Cuman/Tatar decent, those whom seek refuge from the scourge and seek better lands, these men, followers of the Sunni sect of Islam, choose to align themselves, and their servicing with the Polish crown. The Lipka Tatar Cavalry are the quintisencial Mongolian Steppe Cavalry/Horse Archer, armed with awesome recurved bows, riding swift Steppe ponies and equiped with light armour and a deadly Sabre, the Lipka Tatar Cavalry are a versitile unit that gives any Polish commander a great advantage over his more 'cumbersome' European neighbours, plus it allows most Polish forces to hold there own against the deadly swarms of other Steppe cavalry archers.

Galician Mounted and Foot Knights. The Ukrainian Galician region (Not to be confused with the Spanish Galicia region) was famed for both its mounted and foot knights.

[chomskola]

Hi keep the suggestions rolling in, i admit im no expert, but i spent some time in warsaw and krakow looking at the medieval exhibits in museums and since they seem to have a fairly well developed medieval society, it stands to reason that they would have a unique and interesting military culture, wonder if there is anyone out there who knows a lot more than i do which is very little????





Lyndek