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The Dark Age: Charlamagne Reskin, Rosters, and Fixes

NEW UPDATE. Yes, and update, after over 2 years. All I did was fix the normal map on the quilted coif and add some more shield textures. Woohoo.

Alternate Version for use with other Unit Skin Packs: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=609884326

Did you feel like Age of Charlamagne's roster lacked personality? Were the units to banal and too close to the uncivilized barbarians of vanilla to give you a proper Medieval feel? Did you dislike the generic names such as "Armoured Swordsmen" or "Big Axes"? Were you looking for even more units than the meagre offering of vanilla?

The Dark Age is made for exaclty that purpose.

This mod offers and extensive reskin of all vanilla Age of Charlamagne assets with a more historically accurate Early Medieval look, but more importantly, it brings new units to each of the main culture groups (and some of the minor culture groups as well). It also renames most of the vanilla units to more historically accurate, or at the very least more engaging, names.

----===New Units===----
=Anglo-Saxons=

-Spear Infantry-
Hundradeflocc - Mid tier spear unit

-Axe Infantry-
Butseacarls - Mid tier axemen
Heorthgeneats - Two Handed Axemen

-Sword Infantry-
Ceorlwerod - Upper mid tier swordsmen

-Melee Cavalry-
Aethelingas - Upper mid tier cavalry
Eorldermen - High tier cavalry

=Norsemen=

-Spear Infantry-
Herkledi Spearmen - Mid tier spearmen
Atgeirmenn - Lower mid tier spears but with strong attack and charge

-Axe Infantry-
Fardengi - Mid tier axemen

-Melee Cavalry-
Ridarrar - Mid tier cavalry, slightly weaker and more expensive than other factions to preserve balance.

=Sicily/Byzantines=

-Missile-
Optimatoi Skirmishers - Lower mid tier archers

-Axe Infantry-
Hetaireia Axemen - Upper mid tier axemen

-Spear Infantry-
Optimatoi Spearmen - Lower mid tier spearmen
Doryphoroi - Elite spearmen

-Sword Infantry-
Hypaspistai - Elite swordsmen

-Shock Cavalry-
Kataphractoi - Elite heavy cavalry

=Lombards=

-Missile-
Pavian Crossbowmen - Upper mid tier crossbowmen with large shields for an extra missile block chance

-Spear Infantry-
Lancearios Comitatenses - Mid tier spearmen

-Sword Infantry-
Milites Comitatenses - Mid tier swordsmen
Milites Primores - High tier swordsmen

-Melee Cavalry-
Equites Primores - High tier heavy cavalry

=Carolingians=

-Missile-
Flemish Crossbowmen - Upper mid tier crossbowmen who also have large shields for a better missile block chance.
Coloni - Upper tier archers with padded armor.

-Axe Infantry-
Germanic Axe Heerbann - Lower mid tier axemen who have francesca.

-Sword Infantry-
Spataman - Upper mid tier swordsmen

-Spear Infantry-
Lancearii Soldurius - High tier spearmen

-Pike Infantry-
Levy Pikemen - Self Explanatory
Pikemen - More professional pikes, but still fairly vulnerable.
Flemish Pikemen - Upper mid tier pikemen, the only pikes in AoC

=Generic/Spanish=

-Spear Infantry-
Foot Sarjeants - Upper mid tier spearmen

-Sword Infantry-
Foot Knights - High tier swordsmen

-Axe Infantry-
Levy Axemen - Low tier axemen
Axemen - Mid tier axemen
Squires - Upper mid tier axemen

-Melee Cavalry-
Hobilars - Low tier light cavalry
Sarjeants - Upper mid tier heavy cavalry

=New Umayyad Units=

-Spearmen-
Al'Andalusy Ruea
Yamayani Ruea

-Swordsmen-
Al' Arabya Bialsuyuf
Qahatanite Shotelai
Al' Berbery Nubla

-Missile-
Al' Berbery Alhassan
Al' Andalus Rijal Qus Walnashab

-Melee Cavalry-
Al' Berbery Jamal
Al' Andalusy Faris
Al' Berbery Nubla Fursan

Missile Cavaly-
Al' Berbery Alhassan Aratashr

-Shock Cavalry-
Al' Berbery Mustaqillin
Al' Arabya Katafrakt

=Celts=

-Missile Infantry-
Guerillas - Middle/Upper tier javelinmen

-Pike Infantry-
Pictish Longspears

-Spear Infantry-
Bonnachts

-Axe Infantry-
Gaeceitherne - Skirmisher/Axe Infantry Mix
Tuamornaghta - Two Handed Axemen

-Missile Cavalry-
Marcshulaidh - Raider cavalry

=Slavs=
-Sword Infantry-
Slavic Oathsworn - Lower/Mid tier swordsmen
Slavic Noble Warriors - High tier swordsmen

-Axe Infantry-
Slavic Fellers - Two handed axemen
Slavic Woodsmen - Upper tier axemen

Almost all units, new and old, have recieved a touch up.

-=COMING SOON=-

Full Saxon roster expansion.

More Byzantine units.

More Celtic and Slavic units.

Avar reskin and roster expansion.

Proper unit rebalancing.


---===SPECIAL THANKS===---
Special thanks to Ahiga, Maximus183, Avetis, Don_Diego, Hadrien Ier, CJiaba, zkajo, and anyone else on the Fall of the Eagles team for allowing me to use some of their models.
Thanks to Huskarlar, Conan mac Morna, and Mark of Calth for translation help.

I will also be taking requests or suggestions for units to add, but they should have some kind of historical basis. They don't have to be 100% accurate but they have to fit the time and theme.


Please report any bugs or issues. There is a good chance many models may or may not show up at all.

The Dark Age is made to be an unintrustive mod that edits as few of the files as possible. Thus, it should be compatible with almost any mod. However, mods that add more factions to Custom Battles may not have the new units added to each faction.

Special thanks to succettitim for providing some of the helmet models used in the mod!

(Sorry for the limited amount of screenshots. My hard drive failed so I lost a lot of old ones.)