Piety Army
Based on an idea from an early days mod I did called Crusader Vets that was meant more as a cheat mod. This is build more for balance.
The goal of this mod is to allow you to use stored and unused piety to recruit small inheritable armies that are skilled in taking down peasant riots. This will enable you to save gold on men at arms costs long-term once you have got established. The base game allows these type of troops but they never happen enough even with soldiers you really need. This even having high prestige, realm opinion etc. (I doubled checked this later on and they pretty much don’t show up unless your court is warlike).
The decision takes 3000 piety and you will receive an army of 450 troops and 10 siege equipment( I sometimes forget to bring this to battle myself). It will contain a stack of "Zealous Peasants" that are trained to counter peasant revolts as well as single stacks of palace guard, order members and Georgian tradition monaspa calvary to help counter peasants rebellions. You can be defeated but should make taking down peasant rebellions less annoying.
In my testing the custom 200 Zealous Peasant troops were able to wipe out 2,500 peasants and under certain circumstances; You could bring it up to 5,000 depending on how you build your own personal MAA’s.
As a bonus you will get a order member with marshall skill/acclaimed knight skill that can be a commander for this army. He will have the maimed trait to counter balance his effective traits in commanding a smaller army.
You will also get an excellent wet nurse as part of the deal as it can be annoying keeping this court position held by someone skilled. She can be a tutor if you need that more.
Both of them will have your same religion and culture to play nice with mods that don’t use base game cultures/religions.
It uses base game troops with my own custom MAA so it doesn’t interfere with vanilla files.
They still use supply once raised. AI can’t recruit them yet.
The cooldown on this is every 5 years so as your realm grows you have more troops to counterbalance the peasant rebellions which are based on the size of your realm.
decision is at very bottom where you usually recruit court positions to keep it tidy.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
