Empire light cavalry Thread - Call of Warhammer: Beginning of The End Times mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Hi!

I play Reikland, and I find it a bit disturbing, that Empire has no light cavalry. Of course all Empire factions has Pistoliers, but those are missile cavalry, ineffective and useless for close combat. Empire also has a strong heavy cavalry, the Knightly Orders, but it takes a long time in the game to have them, and one cannot use generals' bodyguards all the time. A light cavalry unit is needed for flanking, fighting enemy missile troops, and hunting down fleeing enemies, to take them as prisoners.

Since unit models, unit cards and text entries are already available for them, by modding export_descr-buildings and export_descr_units I added Empire Mounted Swordsmen for all Empire factions. If you remember, this unit served as general's bodyguard for free city rebels in Rage of Dark Gods. Now I can recruit them the same places and with the same recruitment pools as Pistoliers, and they function perfectly.

I've been wondering, whether this change or some other empire light cavalry could be implemented in the next patch, because the need for such units in Empire is dire. Do you agree?

Edited by: Winternet

They don't really have them in the lore or tabletop, and it's one of the very very few things the Empire roster lacks, compared to just about every other faction having major gaps in their rosters. That said, it's easy to add, like you did, so it'd also be easy to keep up with as an optional feature in sub-submods.

Thanks for the answer!

Sadly I do not know much about Warhammer lore, and even less about tabletop, so I do not really now what changes are lore-accurate. I have seen this unit with the rebels in Rage of the Dark Gods, so I was like "If imperial rebels have them, why doesn't the Empire itself?"

May I make a sub-submod about them? By the way, if I make one, where can I share it?

Anyway, thanks for the mod, it's just great!

PS. Here are some screenshots, if anyone is interested:

Anyone can make submods based on BoTET, so definitely! A good place to post it is to make a new thread in the Submods section here: Twcenter.net

Thanks!

I am going to start a thread.

Edit: here it is: Twcenter.net

Edited by: Winternet