And About the units, we allready done some research, but not yet in modelling
, but at least I have done the balancing type about some units relative to their historical strength.
Well, the unit type that we've allready got in almost complete sources in our places and timeline is the most often mentioned in Several native account, the longspearmen aka pikemen... and for the starter, I'll share some of my balancing research about (hopefully) all types of pikemen that exist in our storyline... (notice that some European Elite Pikemen are taken from Medieval 2 TW, but then, it could be present given the timeline that pikemen is still the staple infantry at that time...)
Pikemen will use the phalanx formation with long_pike attribute, quite similar to the phalangitai of ancient times in this mod
Unit size is supposedly in Large size. If numbers are rather odd (not factor of 10), then the extra numbers indicate officers.
Colonial Pikemen - 81 men
Pri A : pike 15,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 8,11,0
Mor : 11, normal, highly_trained
Attr : horde_unit
Comment: This pike unit represent the european colonists who armed themself with pikes, but not inclined to become part of standing military unit after settled, as you can see, they have horde unit ability to represent that, also used to roleplay if europeans are ousted, they are flee, but armed themself with pike as the easiest and still effective weapons to get
Pikemen - 82 men
Pri A : pike 16,4
Sec A : sword 12,4
Def : 9,12,0
Mor : 11, disciplined, highly_trained
Attr : -
Comment: This pike unit represent professional pikemen that the europeans get, they are decently armoured and armed, and historically used to great effect in the early days of conquests.
Colonial Pike Mercenaries - 81 men
Pri A : pike 15,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 8,11,0
Mor : 11, normal, highly_trained
Attr : mercenary
Comment: After taking a settlement in native region, sometimes the european colonists still trying to get some fortune in work as mercenary pikemen, or represent renegade european colonists turned against their former comrades. They are less effective than their professional counterparts, but in the early parts of the campaign, the native factions could get this unit to counter the invading pikemen.
Burgher Footmen - 82 men
Pri A : pike 18,4
Sec A : sword 12,4
Def : 9,13,0
Mor : 14, disciplined, highly_trained
Attr : -
Comment: Elite pike unit for the Dutch, taken from Teutonic campaign description.
Tercio - 82 men
Pri A : pike 19,3
Sec A : sword 11,3
Def : 8,15,0
Mor : 17, disciplined, highly_trained
Attr : very_hardy
Comment: Spain's Elite pikemen, from M2TW vanilla, but they have extra armours here...
Aventuros - 82 men
Pri A : pike 19,5
Sec A : sword 13,5
Def : 11,12,0
Mor : 16, impetuous, highly_trained
Attr : hardy
Comment: Portugal's hot headed, well armoured, and quite murderous elite pikemen, from vanilla M2TW of course...
Javanese Pikemen - 101 men
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 7,12,0
Mor : 10, normal, highly_trained
Attr : -
Comment: The early attempt of the Javanese to counter enemy pikemen with their terms, they historically have more men than european pikemen and better performance compared to another non-reformed native pikemen, but still somewhat inferior in one to one combat against european pikemen. They often described to have more armour than another native pikemen.
Malayan Pikemen - 101 men
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 6,10,0
Mor : 9, normal, highly_trained
Attr : hardy
Comment: The kingdom of Malaka (and melayu people afterall) try to counter early portugese Invasion with some desperate improvement, including getting longspears to counter portugese pikemen that invading their kingdom, these men are ultimately failed, but at least they are depicted as capable to exhaust enemy pikemen for a while...
Viet Pikemen - 101 men (hypothetical, need another historian!)
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 6,11,0
Mor : 11, normal, highly_trained
Attr : -
Comment: This pike unit is a filler because logically in the continent, lands are bigger than in the Archipelago, and they should at least incorporate some pikemen-ish tactics...
Reformed Native Pikemen - 122 men
Pri A : pike 16,4
Sec A : sword 12,4
Def : 5,13,0
Mor : 12, disciplined, highly_trained
Attr : very_hardy
Comment: Pikemen training in the lands of Christianized nobles (and thus heavily europanized) often incorporate some European officer to give better drills and accordingly, drawn more men into their rolls. Historically used in some areas that undergo significant christianization, and or have the local rulers allied to the europeans. They clearly less armoured than most enemy pikemen (because they are trained at comparably late period in the campaign), but their skill and numbers could easily overwhelm their oppositions. Historically, before 17th century christians are mostly enrolled in the very high quality, european styled army such as this.
Javanese Pike Militia - 101 men
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 7,12,0
Mor : 10, normal, highly_trained
Attr : no_custom
Comment: The AOR counterpart of Javanese Pikemen, used by non-javanese native factions.
Malayan Pike Militia - 101 men
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 6,10,0
Mor : 9, normal, highly_trained
Attr : no_custom, hardy
Comment: The AOR counterpart of Malayan Pikemen, used bynon-melayu native factions.
Viet Pikemen - 101 men (hypothetical, need another historian!)
Pri A : pike 12,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 6,11,0
Mor : 11, normal, highly_trained
Attr : no_custom
Comment: The AOR counterpart of Viet Pikemen, used by non-indochina native factions.
Native Pike Soldiers - 122 men
Pri A : pike 15,3
Sec A : sword 11,3
Def : 5,13,0
Mor : 12, disciplined, highly_trained
Attr : very_hardy
Comment: The Europeans also trained natives as better quality pikemen than most native improvisations could do... but they historically still somewhat less quality than those trained by christianized nobles, the counterpart of the Reformed Native Pikemen
Native Pike Mercenary - 101 men
Pri A : pike 11,3
Sec A : sword 9,3
Def : 5,10,0
Mor : 9, normal, highly_trained
Attr : mercenary
Comment: Local mercenary sometimes sold their service as poor quality pikemen, mentioned several times, but certainly almost land on the side of loser... at least this pikemen is a good holder of the line, except against another pikemen.
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