MP units missing in SP campaigns (French dismounted units etc)

[Husar]

Now I am doing well in my french campaign but when I had a look into the custom battles, I saw that the French have dismounted french archers and dismounted chivalric knights there. However, in the campaign I have both mounted equivalents but cannot train the dismounted versions, next better archers after peasant archers are the scots guard.
I wonder whether this is intended and certain unit types are meant only for custom battles/MP or whether that is some sort of bug?

[Nelson]

First off, I don’t have MTW2 yet. But if I recall correctly, the early era knights could not dismount in the original MTW. Could this be the issue?

Foot knights were never trainable as such as I remember it. They had to be dismounted before the battle.

[Scipio Africano]

You're right I havent been able to either. And they aren't listed with building the upgrades.

Dismounted French Archers seem a bit pointless if you have Aventurier
and the DSM Chivalric Knights have only 1 better Armour and Attack rating from what I can see.

[econ21]

I wonder whether this is intended and certain unit types are meant only for custom battles/MP or whether that is some sort of bug?

I suspect it is intended - the English lack their MP armoured sergeants. It may be designed to increase diversity in the SP campaign, while allowing more balance in MP. If English have good spears and the French have commoner longbows, they start to look rather similar.

[Randarkmaan]

I've managed to get feudal foot knights as the French in their campaign...

[Husar]

I've managed to get feudal foot knights as the French in their campaign...

I have them as well, and dismounted noble knights, but no dismounted chivalric knights.
But I was more curious about the archers, currently there is a huge gap between peasants and scots guard, but I guess it's intended then, you get quite a few crossbow units after all.

[BigTex]

I havent played the French yet but the dismounted noble knights might be the "chivalric knights" dismounted. I've seen the spanish with dismounted chivalric knights so it isnt as though they arent in the campaign game. As for none of the dismounted mounted longbowmen. The french don't need more longbows, it would make the english and french armies so repeatative.

[Spendius]

French knights, Noble knights, Lancers. They all cost the same (930)

French knights and noble knights have the same stats, but nobles are more expensive to maintain.
Lancers: same attack stats, 1 less in defense (but no shield), much more expensive to maintain.
Why would I bother with Lancers, and building the very expensive last Stables building ? Because they look cool ? yeah, because they look cool

[Fingon]

Hi guys,

does anyone know how to edit some of txt files in campaign to get the units which are avaible only in multiplayer?? :-(

Because I think that it is really sad, that we can not recruit units like mounted chilvaric knights etc.. And it seems to me that nobody cares about this.

[pevergreen]

[Musashi]

I'm fairly sure you can train the french dismounted archers in your castles, after building the high level archery ranges...

[Rilder]

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umm that looks like a mercenary sergent spearmen unit, its not red and yellow enough to be english :P

[FrauGloer]

umm that looks like a mercenary sergent spearmen unit, its not red and yellow enough to be english :P

I guess you're joking, but if you're not: yes, they are English Armoured Sergeants, it's just that they didn't adapt the "standard" image (the one french and HRE Sergeants use) for England as they didn't intend to have them available in the final campaign version. Should be possible to photoshop the image to make it equivalent to the other sergeant pics, though.

[pevergreen]

But no one cares that they ARE in the campaign?

Just so you know, I have an unmodded version, and I cant photoshop/mod or anything of the kind.