Hello Decomposed. I wanted to actually have a little bit of experience before I said anything more about the mod. Well, I think i have earned SOME sort of place for critique. I just achieved Long Victory conditions on Legendary difficulty with Kislev. The first 100 turns were very challenging and at the end of the day, I felt like I had a well earned victory. Overall, I think this is one of the most fantastic mods I have ever played in my life and I hope to see it continue to be worked on... hopefully with some thought on some of my critiques as well. If i turned my brain off a little bit, i felt like i was playing a new DLC. So good work guys.

Here are my praises:
-Extremely well done in game models. Most of them are truly DLC quality, I especially liked the Strelsti and their coats.
-Genius tier rigging on the Lions to get them to fit the Bears
-You seem to have a general idea of the flow of the campaign (building up resilience and preparing for Chaos), and are building around that
-Slowly taking over the Oblasts is very fun. My allies didn't last long. I was fighting Norsca and Moulder for about 75 turns straight after dealing with Sylvania and Azhag in the beginning.
-The tech tree is not bad at all. I felt like my kingdom was progressing
-The unit cards are not only good to look at and useful, they seriously look better than the warden and paunch monstrosities we got this last update. I like the cool blue background for the ice theme. Special shout out to the ice witch unit card. she looked cute heheh
-The UI is a bit overdone, and i wish it was more subtle, but overall i like the direction you took with it (but seriously, make it more subtle or use a different tileset)
-Tzar Boris is a cool guy
-Really cool regiments of renown that seemed to have unique use cases

Here are my critiques:
-The heros, though nice to look at, really suffer from a lack of identity or useful skills or roles. Besides replenishment I wouldn't have ever used a Ursun Priest for any tactical reason and would have preferred Kreml Guard or really anyone else. The Boyar was useful to tank but, again, had no cool skills or buffs. Just generic.
-Lack of other lores of magic or a more useful Ice Lore
-Kislev overall just lacks tools in the toolbox that many other races have. Even a few rites, or something! anything! to help. I was thinking of a rite that creates an icestorm to cause attrition would be fantastic, thematic and useful from a gameplay perspective considering how you are being invaded from the very first turn and always will be
-The roster is great and the buffs to cavalry is good, but simply just doesn't stand up to late game doomstacks of other races ESPECIALLY on Legendary. Being a more melee focused army doesnt help with that but considering that you will be facing dozens and dozens of stacks of Chaos, Norsca and Moulder within 5 turns at a time... we just need more killing power.
-The red line just didn't seem that useful. Like, melee defense for streltsi? which ones? the halberdiers? It doesn't say.
-Tzarina might legitimately be the most useless legendary lord in the entire game. Her unique ice magic is some of the weakest stuff i've ever seen in this game. I'm talking overcasting her AOE attacks into blobs over 4,000 beastmen and coming out of the fight with 120 kills at the maximum (where a generic fire lord would have had more like 5-600). This was especially evident when I went up against an advanced spellcaster like Morathi who made Tzarina look like a complete joke in every single way, melee, magic, everything.
-Generic ice magic isn't bad and not nearly as bad as Tzarina's stuff, but overall i just felt like i really only had melee and really really bad gunpowder weapons for my faction.
-Economy took FOREVER to get started and that was with minmaxing every single possible way I could
-I know Kislev isn't a gunpowder faction, but they need some buffs badly or even a dwarf engineer type of hero to buff. Kislev Techpriest type of guy to help with range and fire rate. To fight Chaos you NEED the armor piercing ranged but the streltsi, at max level and every buff available, just didn't pack quite the punch they needed. I always made do, just way slower and more painfully than if i was using any other factions armor piercing late game ranged to deal with overwhelming odds and large units. The archers get outclassed as soon as youre in the midgame.
-The way resilience is set up you will be screwed for a long time before you start making any resilience progress. If you can game the system, that's actually good. I was able to farm rebellions due to the resilience mechanic for like 40 turns straight. But the -20% movement range often wasn't worth taking if i'm in any sort of serious campaign against an enemy (i like the idea though)
-I Know the voices are going to be difficult, but there's got to be somewhere in the voice files to replace or remove the FOR THE EMPEROR stuff. Just replace all the unit barks with generic SPEARMEN and samples from the Kislev diplomacy stuff. Even just "Kislev" lol