Originallyposted by Bondovic
There are problems abound regarding Katatanks and Boyars. They must be recruitable.
I dont think they "must" be. First of all you'd get more than enough of them as royal family members, and second the player has a significant one up being able to retrain family members' units as it means they can be preserved better - and the AI doesnt.

Nerfing of stats works fine when you set BG unit size to default cavalry and scalable, because it balances out the increase in unit strength that comes with increase in numbers. While most HC in MTW is nicely represented, with high charge but a bit feeble in melee, mounted knights are equally able in both; that makes them a one off advantage unit. Muslim BGs are (as a model of stat proportions) more close to what mounted knights should have been.

Thermal: by default Belisario and myself meant, as i understood him, default cavalry size ie normal 40, so its increasing and not reducing size - it was also implicitly meant that the unit would be scalable - that's another significant increase. Leaving your glasses around these days? :)