Imperial Guards

This MOD adds several new Men-at-Arms for China, Rome, Iran, Muslims and Crusaders, and modifies some vanilla Men-at-Arms. The specific contents will be listed below.

Byzantine/Greek heritage cultures can now get their own special gunpowder Men-at-Arms after unlocking the Fire Medicine innovation: Greek Fire, see the Gunpowder Men-at-Arms section for details.

If their culture has The Imperial Tagmata Tradition, the Roman Emperor can unlock The Comitatenses Innovation by Restore The Comitatenses Decision, and unlock Comitatenses and Palatini Men-at-Arms.
The Legionary Innovation can now been unlocked in the Tribal, and unlock 2 types of Men-at-Arms: Praetorians and Scholares.
The Imperial Tagmata Tradition will unlock Hippotoxotai Men-at-Arms, always allow you to build horse pastures buildings.

• Comitatenses: Heavy infantry, can only be recruited within provincial army.
• Palatini: Elite heavy infantry, can only be recruited within provincial army by the Roman Emperors.
• Praetorians: Heavy infantry, as same as vanilla version, but with a stronger ability to counter infantry.
• Scholares: Elite heavy cavalry, can only be recruited within provincial army of the Roman Empire.
• Hippotoxotai: Archer cavalry, similar to cataphract.

All the Men-at-Arms mentioned above have newly drawn icons.

The Men-at-Arms unlocked by the Art of War Tradition will receive the following adjustments:

• Black Armoured Cavalry: Heavy Cavalry with a size of 100, and numerical values similar to Horse Archers.
• Burenjia Infantry: Added 0.5x Counter against Heavy Infantry, with corresponding numerical increases.
• Zhanmadao Infantry: Size changed to 50, with corresponding numerical doubling.
• Shenbigong: Added 0.5x Counter against Horse Archers, increased recruitment cost.

The Art of War Tradition additionally unlocks two new soldiers: Imperial Banzhi and Chinese Militia.

• Imperial Banzhi: unlocked by The Art of War tradition. They are elite Heavy Infantry, can only be recruited within the provincial army of the Chinese Empire, powerful but expensive;
• Tuanlian Militia: unlocked by a new innovation. They are cheap Skirmishers, similar to the Roman Akritai. Only can be recruited by Dukes/Counts.

• Tiefutu Cavalry: Unlocked by vanilla innovation. They are the Jurchen heavy cavalry has had its stats increased and its recruitment cost reduced.
• The Repeating Crossbow Innovation is renamed to Vertical Crossbows to ensure historical accuracy (at least the Repeating Crossbow should not appear here) and moved to Early Medieval era (Han culture unlocks it by default in 1066);
• The Composite Crossbow Innovation unlocks the Crossbowmen Men-at-Arms and the Crossbowmen Accolades (Han and Tangut cultures unlock it by default in 867).

The Ancient Authority of Brilliance legacy unlocks Grivpanvar and Asawira (slightly adjusted) Men-at-Arms. And the Splendor Reborn of Brilliance legacy unlocks the Restore The Immortals Decision which enables rulers who were Zoroastrians or whose culture had Iranian heritage to recruit Zhayedan and Pushtigban Men-at-Arms.

• Asawira: Slightly increased stats and reduced recruitment cost.
• Grivpanvar: Elite heavy cavalry, similar to the Tarkhan.
• Zhayedan: Elite heavy infantry, powerful but small in number.
• Pushtigban: Elite heavy cavalry, powerful but small in number, recruitable only by independent Emperor or Hegemon. (Only one regiment of Pushtigban can be recruited)

Muslim rulers whose culture has the Ghilman Innovation can unlock Ghilman Men-at-Arms through the Training Ghilman Decision:

• Ghilman: Large, resilient heavy cavalry, which has lower recruitment costs but higher maintenance costs.

The rulers of Crusader kingdoms can unlock 3 Outremer Men-at-Arms through the Recruit Crusader Warriors Decision:

• Outremer Dismounted Knights: Small in number but resilient and reliable heavy infantry.
• Outremer Knights: Powerful elite heavy cavalry.
• Pavisiers: Powerful elite crossbowmen, effectively counters cavalry.

The Fire Medicine innovation will unlock different gunpowder Men-at-Arms depending on the culture. Specifically, East Asian cultures will unlock Fire Lancers, Greek heritage cultures will unlock Greek Fire, and the remaining cultures will unlock Handgunners.
The data of the three types of Men-at-Arms have been rebalanced. It should be noted that Fire Lancers will be strengthened with each era.
The Gunpowder innovation will still unlock Handgunners for all cultures, and at the same time will provide a modifier of Damage 6/Toughness 2/Screen 5 for gunpowder Men-at-Arms to ensure that the strength of late-game gunpowder Men-at-Arms remains consistent with the vanilla game.

Here is the Men-at-Arms Data Table of this MOD.

There may be problems in the MOD. If you find errors or bugs, please raise it in the comments section and we’ll try to fix it quickly.

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