Is there a way you could help put this in the Nippon mod?
1. the faction lacks a mounted range unit.
2. your model design could pass for Ainu/Emishi.

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I don't suppose you could also do a Crossbow variant of this unit that serves a similar role as Dark Elf Dark Riders.

That would certainly be too much. Regular horse archers are also missing from Firing Drills and Skirmisher Traditions. No need to keep mounted Akshinas in both either.

Thanks for the feedback. I was concerned giving them both akshina and kossar upgrades would make them too strong. i will take a look at the skill upgrades

Hi. Great mod, but I think these horse archers should benefit from the same skills as the kossovite horse archers, so that those underutilized skills might get that much more appeal.

@Greywulf Awesome thank you so much!!

@Rincewind - the Ice Guard cav are up on the workshop now :)

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They will still have magical armor piercing frost arrows, and the arrows look like ice arrows, just will be holding the wood bow, but i think they look good. Just giving them a round balance testing

Make arrows "fire arrows" =)

That still sounds really cool if it's an outcome you'd be happy with, maybe they enchant the arrows as they release/are using magic arrows with regular bows lol? AP horse archers make a Rome 2 style Parthian army possible which is my secret dream for kislev lol

@Rincewind - I did the Ice Guard Cavalry, and they look really cool on the Frost Maiden mount. Problem is the wood bow is graphicly tied into the animation, so they switch between the ice bow and wood bow while firing, and i dont know how to change that. If i equip them with wood bow it all works perfect, and they shoot ice arrows still, but no awesome ice bow :(

Awesome! Excited to see the Akshina Great Axes but of course no rush :)

@Rincewind - I really like the look of the Ice Guard, so im down to try and make it work. Armor Piercing Frost arrows. Havent gone into the tables yet, but hoping i can put them on the Frost Maiden armored horse, think it will look sick if everything lines up. Going to finish my Akshina Great Axes first then give it a shot

Long range, armor piercing ice guard cavalry would still be pretty cool tho, if that were something you were interested in
Maybe either fast and bad at melee or slower but tougher?

Thanks for considering it :)

Mixu's Mousillon has the correct crossbow animation for human, perhaps you could borrow it?

So this and the axe warriors now, I have to ask what your plan is going forward. If you intend to do more Akshina units like this, I would certainly suggest a bundle at some point. If you have the skill, making them exclusive to Mother Ostankya might be another nice idea. Call it "Expanded Roster: Ostankya" and I bet you could even work with Deco on it.

Otherwise if it is just these two, I'd still suggest a combo package. The fewer mods in a load order the better, in my opinion. Oh and thank you by the way, these are both nice additions in general.

@Rincewind - Cool idea, i like it. But my skills at modding are limited to existing animations. I would love to put some Streltsi armored bowmen on heavy horse, but i dont think there is a matching animation for that. All the cool Kislev armor is on the larger framed humanoid. And all the horse archer animation is standard size humanoid. Best idea i could come up with is Ice Guard horse archers, but its not really heavy cavalry :(

Also a big fan of horse archers :), would you consider maybe a heavy kislev horse archer with armor piercing? Not overlapping roles with Ambushers makes sense, so maybe a more heavily armored/slower cavalry unit without Stalk? "Mounted Armored Kossars (Compound Bows)" seems like a bit of a mouthful but is the idea I'm trying to conjure lol, maybe "Ungol Steppe Knights"?

I thought it might be something like that. Weird how different elf animations are

@Bastilean - I tried that,but there is no animation for humans on horseback with a crossbow, only for elves. And the result was horrifying. I really wanted an elite mounted skirmisher for my Ostankya campaign, so i had to compromise. And bows are my favorite, so im pretty happy with how they turned out :)

Why not crossbows?