Total War: ATTILA

Total War: ATTILA

Medieval Kingdoms 1212 AD Base Pack - Campaign Alpha
J Cream 31 Dec, 2024 @ 5:42pm
Mercenary Genoese Crossbowmen
Great mod, just a little gripe.

In general, archer troops are too strong, especially the mercenary ones, especially longbow companies and Genoese crossbowmen.

They cost around the same as melee units and outperform them, they have missiles, and on top of that, a unit of Genoese crossbows will tank my unit of heavy cav 1v1 in settlement battles especially.

This would not be so much of an issue if the AI's armies were not majority composed of mercenaries. I barely know about the merc system in this mod because the AI is constantly buying them out. I must kill 1000 genoese crossbowmen every turn, where on earth are they coming from? Does Genoa have 10000000 people in this period that so many highly trained men can become roaming mercenaries in france and beyond just to be slaughtered in the thousands yearly?

TLDR;;

1. Reduce the melee efectiveness of Mercenary Genoese Crossbowmen (and ranged troops generally)
2. Reduce the ability for AI to muster armies made of mercs. If they have money cheats and the ability to hire mercs at a whim they just roam around hiring all of them all of them time.