Couple of Rad.Cross newbie quesitons

[conanthelibrarian]

Mod looks great and I'm just getting into it.  Couple of quesitons though.

1)  How and where do you get a standard bearer?
2)  What faction has good archers?
3)  The "J" formations, do they confir any battle advantage, or just keep troops together?

Hopefully those wern't too stupid of quesitons.  Thanks for the help.

 

[DSparil]

Mod looks great and I'm just getting into it.  Couple of quesitons though.

1)  How and where do you get a standard bearer?

Join a faction and recruit them from towns (they will only show up once you got enough money to recruit them)

2)  What faction has good archers?

None, your best bet for archers are Nirdamese mercenaries.

3)  The "J" formations, do they confir any battle advantage, or just keep troops together?

"J" makes troops form ranks next to you. Whether you use that to your advantage or not is up to you.

 

[Landwalker]

3)  The "J" formations, do they confir any battle advantage, or just keep troops together?

As a follow-up to this question, are there any pictures or videos of these special formations in action to get a better idea of what they entail / how one might use them?

Cheers.

 

[Almalexia]

Well... actually, I think I have some. I'll post them on the screenshots thread.

They are best used to A) create a near impenatrable block phalanx or B) break through a enemy line with a massed charge. BTW, it is best used while on foot.

 

[conanthelibrarian]

A few other quick quesitons then.

1.  Where do I get merc's at?

2.  As far as character creation, I understand picking from cavalry, infantry, etc. ,but what about noble/commoner and starting faction?  DO I get a special relationship with the faction I pick?  I noticed I started out with much lower stats than in vanilla, is this normal? 
3.  If no one has good archers, are musketmen awesone in thier firepower?  SHoul I build up my archery or crossbow stats, or just screw that and go for guns?

thanks again for the help!!

Mod looks great and I'm just getting into it.  Couple of quesitons though.

1)  How and where do you get a standard bearer?

Join a faction and recruit them from towns (they will only show up once you got enough money to recruit them)

2)  What faction has good archers?

None, your best bet for archers are Nirdamese mercenaries.

3)  The "J" formations, do they confir any battle advantage, or just keep troops together?

"J" makes troops form ranks next to you. Whether you use that to your advantage or not is up to you.

 

[Venitius]

1) Hire mercs at taverns. There are some specialist troops, such as pistolleers, mounted pistoleers, mounted Xbows, swordsmen, two-handers....

2) Crossbows are effectively defunct in my eyes in this mod. Archers can destroy a line of light infantry, but gunners can pack a punch versus heavy infantry. I personally use guns, since I'm a rubbish archer.

Also, there are various types of gunners:

Repeater Gunners (rapid fire)
Cannonneers (large AOE, very good at FF)
Elephant Gunners (good vs. heavy troops)
Ordinary gunners (calivermen) (decent holding power)