Rus` army overhaul

Hello everyone!
Some time ago, I created and uploaded a mod to the workshop called "Varangian for Rus`", which added Varangians to the territory of Rus’. However, I later had to leave both the game and the mod behind.

Now that I have time again, I plan to rework the unit roster for the Eastern Slavs, since the current list looks quite uniform and lacks diversity, apart from the "Axemen" and "Boyar Cavalry".

UPDATE: MOD CREATED FOR MID STARTING PERIOD 1224 and not including model changes for tactical battles!

A complete overhaul of the Rus’ army: new icons, unit types, descriptions, and visuals!
Units are now tied to **provinces** instead of **kingdoms**.

The unit system has been reworked: each province now belongs to a historical **region** and pulls from its own unit pool.

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## 🌍 Regions

All units are distributed across five historical regions:

– 🧭 **North**
– 🛶 **Novgorod**
– 🏔 **Northeast**
– 🌾 **South**
– 🛡 **West**

*⚠️ Currently, all regions use the same unit stats. This may change in the future for balancing or thematic reasons.*

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## ⚔️ New & Reworked Units

### 🔄 Core Units

– Light and heavy infantry
– Light and heavy spearmen
– A new type of heavy cavalry

### ⭐ Unique Units

– **Junior Druzhina** – elite foot warriors
– **Senior Druzhina** – elite mounted archers

📌 *Vanilla units are still available for recruitment.*

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## 🏛 Province-Based System

To assign units to specific provinces, I had to **rebuild certain kingdoms** from scratch.
Because of this, players using **non-English or non-Russian localizations** may experience **text display issues**.
In theory, it should fall back to English by default, but I haven’t tested it yet.

### Affected Provinces:

– Kyiv
– Vladimir
– Ryazan
– Yaroslavl
– Polotsk
– Vytebsk
– Novgorod
– Smolensk

❗If you encounter bugs or issues — **please leave a comment so I can fix them!**

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## 🛠️ Future Plans

– 🔓 A unification quest for Rus’
– 🏰 Unique buildings (e.g. **Kyiv Pechersk Lavra**)
– ⚔️ Reworked Varangians for selected provinces and Black Klobuck for Kyiv
– ⚙️ Regional stat adjustments for better balance

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## 🙏 Thank You!

Thank you for your attention — I hope you enjoy the mod!
If you find any bugs or problems, please leave feedback — it really helps improve the mod 🙌

**P.S. Vanilla units remain available for recruitment. If your current campany not available due to mod update just try to create new one with ur last save/or clean checksum for current campany**