well in the incarnation i uploaded the japanese do have guns,
that can be played for fun until the next incarnation of the mod.


keeping the mongols tactically different would be a priority,
giving them a heavy unit with anti-cav would defeat that goal.

i envisage stepp cav would have even less armour than yari cav, cloaks and padding and No yoroi,
making them even more vulnerable to missiles - (i would Not make them faster than yari cav),
- where one can use yari cav to scatter archers, one could not use steppe cav to the same effect
(perhaps make the steppe cav fear sam archers?)