So the Longbowmen do not show up in the campaign. Maybe it is some update that has happened since the MOD? Also I have searched the packfiles and played around with them and tried for hours to add foreign warriors and gallowglassses to circenn with no luck,

How did you do this? Im trying to add gallowglasses to circenn

Before the coming of the Saxons the Brtions controlled most of mainland Britain. When the Saxons came and overran their lands, they remained free only in the west, Only these free British went on to develop and use the longbow. The Saxon/English kingdoms did not. Not until later, when the welsh lands were incorporated into Norman England, was the use of the Longbow encouraged in England as well.

In any case, the early longbow was not the longbow of Agincourt fame. That came later. The early longbow was all about close up power, not range.

It is NOT accurate to say that, because the Britons (may have ) had the longbow, and because the later English had the longbow, that is is OK for Saxon Wessex to have the longbow too. This simply was not the case. And NO ONE should be using the longbow as if it is the famous weapon of the hundred years war. It wasn't that bow.

Well u do what u want bro BUT i feeel it like a cheat way of playing (sry but thrue).
British alreadu have the best situations and the strongest unoits, escepcially thir incredibly hard heavy infantry and cavalry.... Other factions like Gaelic and moreover the Welsh have weaker strating positions and middle efficient units... except their Archery/bowmen. If u let British use their very scarce unic units, u defintvly kill the game. I mean :
_ Yet no interest to play Weslsh factions, u can already use their elite units and all other units have their equivalent weaker
_Vikings are too unchallenging, to play either to opposit... so I really don't like u'r mod !

@TheNanMan2000
FACT CHECK: the oldest known long bow was found with a mummy in the Otztal Alps (it is supposed to be from about 3400 BC based upon the other items found with the mummy and the carbon dating of the corpse) and then other long bows have been found in somerset dating back as far as 2600 BC
the reason long bows are such a uncommon battlefield wepons is because of the time it takes for a person to become proficient with the weapon. The reason the long bow is so closley associated with the english is because of the hundred years war. the battles of Crecy Poitiers and Agincourt would convince english forces to continue feilding the weapon until the gun powder made its way to the island

Hello everybody:
Mod work perfectly on custom battles, but don't work in campain (new campain start)
Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance

The English never had longbows. It was only when the Normans conquered the Saxons, and the Normans then later conquered Wales and incorporated Welsh longbowmen that they fielded them. And even then, they were Welshmen using longbows. Perhaps you should only allow Saxons to field longbows if they conquer a Welsh settlement and make a building

just a game, so not that big a deal, but the english/saxons didn't have longbows yet like they were famous for later in the middle ages. After the Normans conquered them, they took control of Wales and coopted it into their armies from then on, but previous to that the Welsh were kings of the bow.

Does this mod change startpos?

It would be nice to have a picture of it in the ad

Not bad idea BUT, you Must balance by either giving welsh armies/units bonuses or nerf english longbowmen beacuse now thie's still no reason to play WELSH armies. Those 2 nations are still really very qtrong what's the use of getting welsh nations weaker and make the strongest bettter ?
Please BALANCE ^^

please update

STill crashes the game.

Crashes the game since update.

Is this currently working for latest updates?

I have this mod and the update mod but my longbowman option was still replaced by milita fyrd archers... have i donesomething wrong?

they should be less effective versions of the welsh longbowman if only for balance reasons. I like the idea to give them decent longbowman, but this would give me no real reason to play as the welsh.

Thx dude ;) Danke !

this mod here ?

have upload a new mod, alltime you can recruit Longbowmen and Elite Longbowmen

it do the same for me Jamenkell

ok yeah, i have it as first in tech tree. but then it gets replaced by Militia Fyrd Archers. who i believe are worst range wise. wish someone could add longbowman like the ones from medieval II.

Thx Musculus, but how do u done to have the both archers on ur pool recruit screenshoot ?

Jamenkell you must start a new campaign, when your Techtree is fineshed!

LitleBold at the moment is Longbow for the first Update in Tree, but i change it with next update

Jarmenkell in ur tech tree does longbowmen is the 1st upgrade ?

it doesnt work for me, i started using it after I all ready finished my tech tree for missiles, and my Faction is all ready England. maybe you need to add england too in the script or whatever.

in your tech tree, does longbowmen are first point ?

Nice job but just something not logical for me : u have them at the avant last upgrade tree, then if u want to go to the last upgrade tree point, u lost them to a non a benefit of a less unit (Mercia test).

Nice mod that makes alot of sense, what ideas you got for the new models?