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Apocal said:

I'm taking about the AI: the last thing I want is the army they scraped together in two days after I killed off 3000 of their men to be at all usable in contesting my (now beaten-up) army.

I can't say I have that experience: between archers, improved cav and shieldwall formation putting shieldless dudes towards the back, I can usually mop up a village militia or small lord party for the XP.

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Yoshioki Ouchi said:

Of the known cultures, the Darshi would probably be the most interesting since a Persian-style culture east of the Khuzaits could transform the strategic picture of the region and add a culture I'm not terribly familiar with its IRL counterpart.

Otherwise, I most want to see a culture inspired by the Chinese with all the advancements they had by 11th century standards; this'd include an early form of firearm, repeating crossbows, Chinese glaives, halberds, and lots fo cool costumes and armors. City walls a hundred feet thick and grid-like urban arrangements and probably new trade goods as well. The only issue is not making them OP since they'd likely overpower most of the Calradian factions if not seriously handicapped, like having terrible to no cavalry and horrid defense to compensate for strong offensive potential and a likely far-eastern setting that's highly defensible. They could be split into several kingdoms like the Empire to have both local competition and delay snowballing.

Then there's the common favorite of a not-Japan civilization, which, at this time, would still be carrying shields as well as wearing shields on their shoulders and their curved swords would be rare in comparison to naginatas and other polearms. If a not-China's addded, a not-Japan would likely be beside it. If it were an island country, some kind of naval mechanic would be ideal and that'd likely change the strategic and economic face of Calradia as a whole...

A whole new continent east of Calradia's Duzeg Steppe could be added to fit these Asian-themed cultures, and the visible but unreachable corners northeast of Sturgia and southeast of the Khuzaits could be where cultures in-lore would be added into, like the Nords and Darshi.

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abc123456 said:

You know post like this isn't helpful. The OP made a very valid point here.The fact of the matter is there is a lot of unnecessary clicking to do very common things.For example:

1. Why do I have to click into the arena first then check for a tournament?Just show us a tournament menu if there is one.

2. Why is the recruit all button inside another menu? Most of the time we recruit all peasants. Just give us the option in the town menu.

3. Why do we have to open a looter/bandit dialogue menu first before opening another attack menu? Just open one menu then give us the option to talk to the looter. There is a mod for this called fast_dialogue

4. Why do we not have keyboard shortcuts for menus and dialogue? Has TW not played the 10000 RPG games out there? Every single good one I know has this. Baldurs Gate, Knights of the old Republic, Divinity Original sin 2, Dragon age, Planescape, Witcher 3, Pillars of Eternity, etc.

I don't know why the UI is like this, but please TW if you need some ideas play more other games. There are some games that do UI very well, for example Anno 1800. Endless Space 2.

Have a look how Anno 1800 do trading routes here, it is very good:

Great management UI from Endless Space 2:

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JustinTime49 said:

Haha, just imagining the farmers casually plowing the fields while in blizzards, outproducing the warm imperial/vlandian lands.

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Owen Wulfson said:

Maybe they wanted a winter wonderland vacation?

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Bannerman Man said:

Not for me. For instance:

Notice how Garrison drops but Militia does not.

I'll take this over to the bug thread though.


Thanks! Will do.

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Waybook said:

Next step would be making their infantry use the shieldwall to advance. That would be great.

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quietresolve said:

I agree to buff the heavy cavalry charge but the difficulties to obtain a heavy cavs should be massively increased. For example, there should be a rule that each knight has to come with 2 squires, which prevents the player from buildng a heavy cav only army.

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Scion504 said:

This isn't the case at all. In feudal times, Kings absolutely would go from town to town to recruit their levies. As an example. King Harold, prior the battle at Stamford Bridge, recruited his army on the way to the battle. This was generally how most levies were recruited. "At this time King Harold was in Southern England, anticipating an invasion from France by William, Duke of Normandy, another contender for the English throne. Learning of the Norwegian invasion he headed north at great speed with his huscarls and as many thegns as he could gather, travelling day and night. "

Imperial recruitment for the byzantine empire was considerably different. The byzantines used the theme system which used a type of militia system of permanent soldiers that were trained.

"The term thema was ambiguous, referring both to a form of military tenure and to an administrative division. A theme was an arrangement of plots of land given for farming to the soldiers. The soldiers were still technically a military unit, under the command of a strategos, and they did not own the land they worked as it was still controlled by the state. Therefore, for its use the soldiers' pay was reduced. By accepting this proposition, the participants agreed that their descendants would also serve in the military and work in a theme, thus simultaneously reducing the need for unpopular conscription as well as cheaply maintaining the military. It also allowed for the settling of conquered lands, as there was always a substantial addition made to public lands during a conquest. "

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