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Welsh Kingdoms Vanilla Style Reskin

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

A lot of the Welsh soldiers in Thrones of Britannia are depicted as not having helmets and pants, despite having similar armor values as the Saxons. Without changing too much, I made it so that soldiers without helmets (in units that are wearing armor) now only have a 1/3 chance of not having a helmet, and soldiers without pants, similarly now only have a 1/3 chance of not having pants. Another thing that I added, was faction specific shield patterns for the larger kingdoms of Gwined and Powis in Wales. I used the coat of arms designer from Crusader Kings 3 to create these, and look naturally painted on the shields. I also used a pattern from Inspector Gadget's East Engle and Northybre Reskin as a unique shield for the Welsh factions, that makes them stand out more from the Saxons.

I wanted to do something different for Strat Clut, so for them rather than having a unique shield, they share some shield patterns with the Scottish factions to make them uniquely "Old North" Britons. They also have some Scottish characteristics in their outfits. The emergent Cumbra faction (and Strat Clut Separatists) also have these outfits as well.

For the faction of Cerneu, I wanted to create a unique appearance for them, because they are somewhat cut off from the other Welsh. Taking inspiration from the Last Kingdom (show), I made them a little more poor looking and ragtag than their other Welsh counterparts, and also have a mix of Saxon, and a little bit of Dane characteristics in their outfits.

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.