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English Kingdoms Vanilla Style Reskin

This mod overhauls the English Kingdoms unit appearances in a very vanilla-friendly way.

Thrones of Britannia has a problem with culture really being irrelevant, especially with the Great Viking Army and Saxons. I wanted the Saxons to look distinct from the Danes, so one of the things I added, was faction specific shield patterns for the larger Saxon kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, and Cent. I used the coat of arms designer from Crusader Kings 3 to create these, and look naturally painted on the shields.

For the faction of Westernas, I wanted to create a unique appearance for them, because they are the northernmost Saxon faction, and from doing a moderate amount of research, the area they inhabit was heavily mixed with Brythonic (Welsh) people, and so for fun and for the sake of increasing the diversity in faction appearances, they have a mix of Saxon, Welsh, and a little bit of Scottish characteristics in their outfits.

I also wanted to create a somewhat unique appearance for the emergent faction of East Seaxe, because they were once a powerful Saxon kingdom, but now that their lands have been ruled by the Danes, they will have some subtle Danish influences to their appearance, if they were to rise again.

The way that the vanilla outfits are set up, there is only 3 possible soldier variations (that means only 3 shield variations too), so I added two more soldier variations to every unit, and approximately 30 possible shield variants per unit, with all soldier variants being able to carry them. The shields are based on the unit's vanilla shields (with a couple more patterns added), in all the faction/ pattern color variations, so it's a better version of the vanilla shield distribution.