About this mod
Made for 1.8.0.
Better Battanians tries to give the faction a boost by having a standard linear troop tree along with a few added types such as archers that are in the regular troop tree. A light horse skirmisher has also been added before the regular horse skirmisher. See pictures and detailed description below for more info.
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What the mod tries to do: Give battania a boost so that they can be competitive in campaign.
-makes battania's troop tree more linear and straight forward like other factions. Infantry upgrades to infantry. Cavalry has its own branch instead of being hidden at the bottom of an infantry troop branch.
-The noble/elite archer troop tree remains, but there is also a standard archer troop tree.
-Adds a light horse skirmisher line as HorseArcher category so they don't get teamed up with the regular cavalry
-changes the mounted horseman polearm from t4 to t3. T4 does not have couch lance capability and since 1.8.0. cavalry is sucking, they're not hitting anything. In an effort to mitigate this, I gave them all the t3 which allows for couch lance. Even after that, its still shit because of 1.8.0 cavalry bug. At least the idea is there as of now. (to allow the heavy cavalry to couch lance for better chance of kills) Give them similar stats as Vlandia Banner Knights in an effort to force them to straight charge the enemy. Didn't work.
-adds a new horse item. Pretty much the war horse of the battanian mounted horseman, but changed charge damage from 11 to 110. Price has been adjusted so no economy issues. (was pretty sad to see 200 mounted horseman charge into 80 weak infantry and get 1 kill. Yes. One. This is simply an unfair boost until cavalry is fixed. Kind of sucks that it came to this as a way of mitigation.
-party template has been updated to include the new archers, light mounted skirmishers, etc.
-this mod DOES NOT add anything new to the game, so should have no issues such as crashes, etc.
-the mod might have compatibility issues with anything that changes troop trees, their equipment, horse damage, etc.
-Overall, I was pretty conservative in the making of this mod minus the new horse item. I used all native items and only gave battanian body armors to the new units.