Crusaders.

Ok, so they're supposedly an upgrade to heavy cavalry.

They're much cheaper, looks like they hit hard, but by the rate they drop dead on the battlefield they have paper armour.

What gives?

I mentioned this after playing the mod a while back. It seems like a bug. They should either be under the Heavy Cavalry, or their stats should be higher than the Heavies.

Yes, the problem is that they're level 18 or something. Heavy Cavalry are level 28. If you have the troop editor, then you can change the level. I did, I made them 35. That should fix the death rate.

i ran the trooptree generator and this is what i got

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English Recruit (Level 4 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 75 2H: 72 POLE: 6

    *
      English Militia (Level 9 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 79 2H: 76 POLE: 82)
          o
            English Footman (Level 14 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 88 2H: 86 POLE: 8
                +
                  English Cavalry (Level 20 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 115 2H: 112 POLE: 102)
                      #
                        English Heavy Cavalry (Level 25 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 134 2H: 150 POLE: 152)
                            *
                              English Crusader (Level 14 STR: 7 AGI: 5 1H: 160 2H: 86 POLE: 92)

.....this is obvious a huge bug......

I honestly can't remember, it probably is a bug but on the other hand I lowered some stats because the equipment given to troops made them too good. I'm thinking of sorting out these bugs and releasing a new version like.