Empire: Incomplete?

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"Hello, my name is Dismounted Feudal Knight. I am the same generic infantry that all western factions have, and I wear the same uniform no matter who I'm working for! Only there's no tech tree to upgrade me with, so I'm even more boring."

When it comes to unit rosters, Total War isn't exactly Starcraft. Never has been, never will be. I guess that's just how it goes.

Very on point.

(Dismounted) Feudal Knights
(Dismounted) Chivalric Knights
Feudal/Chivalric Men-At-Arms
Sergeants/Armored Sergeants
Mailed Knights
Peasant Archers

etc. etc. etc.

M2 did have noticably more unique units in the late era, but almost all the Euro powers were still 90% carbon copies of eachother.

Yesterday browsing through the late era unit rosters, there only seems to be a couple factions that are quite generic: United Provinces, Sweden, Prussia. But even their "copy" units have different stats, plus United Provinces gets access to many colonial units in America and India (probably the case too with Sweden and Prussia if you make it that far).

England has a nice set of units, France has many unique units too. Spain too IIRC, U.S., Austria, Russia. Ottomans are totally unique, as are the Marathas.

Come to think of it, I wholeheartedly reject the notion that ETW's unit roster is generic at all.

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Very on point.

(Dismounted) Feudal Knights
(Dismounted) Chivalric Knights
Feudal/Chivalric Men-At-Arms
Sergeants/Armored Sergeants
Mailed Knights
Peasant Archers

etc. etc. etc.

M2 did have noticably more unique units in the late era, but almost all the Euro powers were still 90% carbon copies of eachother.

Yesterday browsing through the late era unit rosters, there only seems to be a couple factions that are quite generic: United Provinces, Sweden, Prussia. But even their "copy" units have different stats, plus United Provinces gets access to many colonial units in America and India (probably the case too with Sweden and Prussia if you make it that far).

England has a nice set of units, France has many unique units too. Spain too IIRC, U.S., Austria, Russia. Ottomans are totally unique, as are the Marathas.

Come to think of it, I wholeheartedly reject the notion that ETW's unit roster is generic at all.

From what I've heard though, it would be nice if the generic infantry had different uniforms.

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From what I've heard though, it would be nice if the generic infantry had different uniforms.

To be honest it seems to me like European/American uniforms were pretty standard in this time, but with different colors between the nations of course. Garish uniform colors and designs didn't really show theirself until the Napoleonic era.

They all basically wear similar jackets, pants and hats, with the white "belt" things crossing eachother over the torso (making an X). Just searching for uniforms on google, it looks like just color swapping British/U.S.-type uniforms from the period is pretty accurate.

The state of the unit roster is simply because that's the way the period was.