Brigands : masters of technology.

[Kobal2fr]

I swear, I'm really getting weary of brigands stacks made up of Chivalric Knights and Noble Swordsmen appearing in 1082. It's a friggin' epidemic, the same happens for ALL factions : Hussite stacks in Germany 10 turns in (when the Hussites rebellion happened in the 14th century), Noble Pikes in England when all you have are peasant bowmen, Polish Nobles and other heavy archers all over Russia as you painfully scrap enough cash for that one more Kazak unit... Brigands ALWAYS seem to have one more tech level than you do, when they're supposed to be at best a rebellious arm of your own army.

The worst thing is : us grogs can't even moan "aaah, you dun't knewn them real MTW days, son", because it was the same back in MTW, with resurgent factions decked in Renaissance plate and Chivalric Sarges popping up in the 10th century...

Thankfully, I've never seen gunpowder stacks spontaneously appearing in feudal Scotland yet. Which leads me to believe that's there's at least some form of control mechanism for rebel army composition somewhere. Which leads to my question : is there some way to control what kind of brigands are going to show up with regards to the era you play in, or some mod out there that does that ? ie : "from 1080 to 1100 : at best peasant Xbows, mailed knights and armored sarges" etc... Numbers or frequency don't really matter to me. It's their tech level that bugs me.