Sure, after an update getting the mods to work again can be difficult, but for me almost all mods worked fine.
I'm using:
Ranged Rebalaced - makes bows and crossbows do cut damage, this means they are much weaker against armour. only longbows and stronger crossbows still do pierce damage. (be careful tho, as it changes xml files. always make backups)
Prevent Escape - essential to reduce the grind
No more Recruits - allt recruitable troops start at tier 2 and with sensible equipment. No more recruit armies melting to archers
And then a bunch of quality of life mods and light combat mod collection with that
Hello, i answer after some days. I installed 20+ mods (a package called EPIQQ mod collection, it was then removed from nexus mods because it contained other mods from other modders without consent). They were tested by this guy to work all together and make a super-different experience. I tell you some of them: Prevent escape and light combat mod (2 of the mods you told me)
Stronger spears(name speak by itself),
Improved Garrions ( can recruit automatically from your fiefs and auto-train them inside cities and castles)
Kaos Wages (reduce or increase wages for you and AI)
Modular party sizes ( increase the party sizes of you and AI, while reducing wages with Kaos wages to make bigger armies and garrisons for everyone)
Realistic battle (look for it, too long to explain)
Xorberax cut trough everyone (one of the most popular)
Xorberax deadly horse charges
Diploamcy fixes
Noble troops ( this is a must have, add lot of troops and make some balances, improving Sturgia troop quality and lot more).
Fight aggressively ( AI stop runnin away and they fight lot more aggressively, this mod surely raise the difficulty)
I was playing these mods and more with 1.30 version. Now i updated the game to 1.41 and testing them with new version. Some of them can't be played because they never got updated.
It's ridicolous, anyway, the fact that this game is a looot better when played with the right mods, developers should look at many ideas of the modders community and steal them. I hope in the future they will make more mod packages that change a lot the gameplay , playable with other mods like GOT or LOTR that change the lore and ambient of the game.