Started a french campaign, with a heavy emphasis on militia, so I can make the more specialised troops in their +valour provinces. Seems to work very well, haven't lost a major battle so far.
Gendarmes............ they are quite an investment because you need a master swordsmith to make them, but they don't seem to have any use at all. They are just heavily armored hobilars^^ They can be used to stop a unit of chivies before you bring the halberdiers in, but they suffer very heavy casualties. To be honest, they don't do well against anything more advanced then militia sergeants. They aren't particulary cheap, and while they have better morale then most militia troops, Feudel Knights beat them all the way, let alone the chivies......
Am I missing some hidden feature??? I WANT to use them, cause they look kinda cool ^^ (chivies look like they wear baseballcaps on the picture, just so wrong)
Another question: when you start the campaign it is said that french crosbowmen and chivies are better then average, but I have found no proof of that. Seems to me that it are exactly the same units? (ok ok you can get a valour bonus for your chivies, but is that it?)
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