Bashkorts!

**Joshwa** · 07-03-2005, 20:24

Has anyone else come up against these guys in the XL mod?! I think they are mostly used in Cuman armies, and they are nigh on invincible! They throw javelins, they maul horsemen, and they chewed up my Byzantine infantry like paper! So yeah, just thought i'd share that...

**Martok** · 07-04-2005, 00:11

Hmm, not yet. I may have to try out the Cumans (or the Byz, if I feel like being victimized by the bashkorts), now that you've told us about them.

**Zarax** · 07-04-2005, 08:42

Nice unit, they look like the old good Almughavars

**Joshwa** · 07-05-2005, 01:41

I hate them, I absoloutely hate them! Defend well VS cavalry I see, so i send in feudal swordsmen, in a wood, attacking from uphill. They got mangled. Getting desperate, I hit them from the back with my royal knights while they were running after the swordsmen. The knights inflict NO casualties, but get chewed up and spat out within about 15 seconds. They dont get hurt by arrows, they kill swordsmen, they are invulnerable to cavalry, and im guessing they must be quite cheap as well! I am seriously considering the possibility that they might be an XL mod bug, I have never been so floored by any unit before.

Added to that, the Cumans also get what looks to me like kataphraktoi as royal knights. This doesn't look good...

**Roark** · 07-05-2005, 03:13

So these guys are armoured javelin-throwers with good melee stats?

Nasty...

**antisocialmunky** · 07-05-2005, 03:59

They're like Time travelling Roman Legionaires

**Joshwa** · 07-05-2005, 11:52

Originally Posted by Roark

So these guys are armoured javelin-throwers with good melee stats?

Nasty...

Yeah, and just to shove it in your face, they fight wearing only a pair of trousers, so my army got the added humiliation of being beaten by a bunch of naked guys. And it says in their stats that they are peace loving...