So I'm not seeing the strategy in this mod. Or the difficulty, really. I like it, don't get me wrong, I really do. It's extremely fun. Certainly having more fun than the official gun expansion.
But I'm not seeing the strategy. The only thing I do is get shooters, then stand around as they murder EVERYTHING. The only strategy I've done, really, is kite a band of 500 dark army dudes into a warband of 4000+ of some faction, then join the battle. Suddenly I'm set for cash for a long time. Long enough to build enough enterprises to fund whatever crazy army I make.
Speaking of armies, I haven't really touched national soldiers. I just use mercenaries, which get the job done just fine. Blades irk me though, they tend to rocket all around the place even when told to hold. They move unusually fast and just zip everywhere.
Alephs I don't like. The explosions don't seem to be as destructive as I feel they should be, and frankly with the arrows that explode from their rounds, they're almost as big a danger to their own soldiers. Hell, all the explosions seem subpar to me, so I tend to avoid them. I even spent a while lobbing grenades into a pile of men at a siege, to little effect. Actually hurt myself more, and I wasn't even that close.
Has this mod been abandoned?