This article is a explanation of the military units of Age of Stainless Steel mod. The units will be group in lines (equal a base unit with all it's upgrade unit), and will start organizing them in their train buildings. The list starts first the the common trained units that consumes only food and wood to be trained, and only tent population:
1. Barrack units
a. Sword Line. This line is composed of Sword Militia, Swordsman and Heavy Swordsman. The units of this line are infantry with sword and shield. The advantage of this line is that has a shield, bonus fighting spear units and very good ROF. The disadvantage are not a good piercing armor, high cost and being a foot unit. These units are good to counter spear units and very resistant against range units. Just need to keep them away from cavalry.
b. Longsword Line. This line is composed of Longswordsman, Heavy Longswordsman and Elite Longswordsman. The units of this line are infantry with longsword. This line is like the champion in the Vanilla, but there is way more powerful. The advantage of this line is that can hit more than one unit at a time, bonus fighting spear units and very good ROF. The disadvantage are not a good piercing armor, not having a shield, high cost and being a foot unit. These units are good to counter spear units and fighting large numbers of enemy at a time. Just need to keep them away from cavalry and ranged units.
c. Axe Line. This line is composed of Axe Militia, Axeman and Heavy Axeman. The units of this line are infantry with axe and shield. The advantage of this line is that has a shield, can be recruited early, bonus fighting low melee armor units and very good ROF. The disadvantage are not a good piercing armor, not a good attack and being a foot unit. These units are good at early stage, but weak at the high ages.
d. Polaxe Line. This line is composed of Polaxeman and Heavy Polaxeman. The units of this line are infantry with pole axe or double axe. This line is like the Longsword Line, but has other characteristics. The advantage of this line is that can hit more than one unit at a time, bonus low melee armor units and very good ROF. The disadvantage are not a good piercing armor, not having a shield, high cost and being a foot unit. These units are good to counter large numbers of enemy at a time, and are slightly more powerful than Longsword Line at early age. Just need to keep them away from cavalry and ranged units.
This is the end of part 3 - The Barrack units, will continue soon with other military units of Age of Stainless Steel.
