I see, curious that this bug happened! I did notice it because I again insisted on trying to make Serve as Soldier work and during training sections we can actually trigger a fast-forward AI take-over of our PC to, well, make it less excrutiatingly grindy (but I'd say it's a cheat considering that mod increases focus and attribute points through training - irresistible to exploit it though) and the PC would basically stop doing anything once 1 bolt was left
I'm having a blast, and since i've farmed all combat skills I've noticed that horse archery has become MUCH MUCH harder, which's a nice change of pace. If you spec on dmg you'll have a hard time hitting things, and if you don't take faster reloads you'll have to invest more brain-power into movement avoiding the vanilla's endless stream of killer shots from the PC. Cavalry chasing with horse archery also reminds me of air-combat games where we're dog-fighting xD
As for the AI they seem to have much less of a hard time with it, but at the same time their accuracy is much less deadly, makes up for their godlike auto-aim. What I don't like, though, is how far they are starting to try and hitting shots, since the drop of arrows' much more pronounced in RBM, often I'll see AI shooting those absurd 90 degrees to hit something that's not feasibly in range to actually hit, idk if that can be toned down or not, but I'd rather the AI take safer shots even on "fire at will" since ammo's so much more scarce now
The only thing I'm "on queue" to test's the projectile speed perk for thrown weapons, despite that they also feel much better for melee and mounted skirmishing, no deadly perfect precision, and depending on some perk specs it's very useful to obliterate a shield-wall formation's defensive advantage.
I've also noticed how sturgia's now a force to be reckoned with, loved it although the lack of love from TW towards them still shows for campaign only results (obviously not the job for your mod to fix).
The only thing I'm finding a bit uncanny, though, is the animation + sound effect for some of the blocking, looks a bit weird, I think it happens when we or AI blocks on the wrong direction? Not sure
As for interaction with Serve as Soldier, RBM seems to be overwriting commander commands for certain formations, as a captain but under a lord as a soldier, I couldn't get the infantry formation to obey square commands, and shieldwall commands would auto-swtich back to line if I ordered them to move. Haven't tested to see if that also happens when we are in an actual party though.
For equipment, I'm not 100% happy with lack of "lordship" exclusivity for Ultra Armor gear, these being used by troops so often makes it feel less rewarding to acquire them, blends them with much more wealthy lords (also lords don't seem to benefit from your better spreadsheet for equipment - often they use subpar stuff while fielding a full t6 squad), I'd find it more convincing if ultra armor was rare on t6 troops and non-existant on anything lower while lords carrying those often, but than again idk how that would affect your balancing.
I've also managed to narrow-down the source of multiple crashes towards Serve as Soldier, for some reason that mod's coding interactions + features exhacerbate natural Bannerlord's bugs and basically flushes a vast array of varying crashes that the game can have, ranging from Battle-field crashes to campaign map crashes which's a bit maddening, but it might help you with possible bug reports in the future. I think the first recommendation for anyone experiencing those is to try a playthrough without Serve as Soldier as the first step at all times if they use that mod.
A side-note observation is that without mods that mitigate early-game's natural handicap for the PC, playing from there towards mid-game can be a extremely irritating experience with RBM, because our ability to beat even looters or gangs in towns will be almost null. There's the Arena "farming" to mitigate that effect but that's also excrutiatingly slow and punishing due to how arena fights work (AI constantly spawning in all directions with ranged weapons ends up with up to 5 AI stacks going rage-moth mode on the PC, shooting arrows and throwables while others zerg rushing)
EDIT 9/12: I've just noticed the steep price to hire companions, why such a change considering all of them come in rags with bad skill levels?
EDIT 9/16: Okay, first run I had I was rolling with sturgians mostly, this time I decided to try a battanian and go under vlandians, and I've detected a massive broken balance from the mod. Apparently Empire's now the new "vlandia" in terms of absurdity on the balancing scale (Bucellari are extremely OP even though they were meant to be weak HA), catas became undying machines of jittering charges due to, again, what I reported the first time I tried the mod: cavalry bias due to how TW decided to handle their movement (they basically suffer 0 collision with any foot units). Than the combo they bring to the table's basically a full hoster of "unkillable" troops for every single role possible.
Here's where comes the AI issue, I'm using the full mod, and during skirmishes and small battles AI performs perfectly, but when it comes to large scale army vs army battles where AI spams t5 and t6 units like there's no tomorrow, well, no matter how good you are at the game's combat, you'll take 2 minutes to kill any unit because they have this uncanny super-power of godly reflexes and can block basically every single attack you do, feints, stuns, everything you use won't work unless you perk into a pure stun build (roguery maxed for the kick buff and intersperse between shield and 2h axe or 2h mace/hammer - swords are useless due to not being able to get multi-hits). Add to it the low dmg in general, and hell breaks loose. I've only really noticed this issue against empire, which basically translates to really poor balance. Another gripe I'm having this time's bandit AI fleeing from battles on a endless loop if you join the battle yourself (they insta flee when the battle begins - depending on spawn or if they are on horse, it's a lost cause until you auto-resolve - dumb ****). It pissed me off to unbearable lengths... There's something really wrong with how the mod plays-out under certain strains of actions/circumstances, and I'm not sure it's possible to play without going 200% meta on it, which destroys the experience for SP (sandboxes aren't meant for power-gaming, theoretically their strength lies on the player RPing something, otherwise every goal becomes pointless) idk, I love the overall feeling the mod brings to the general state of affairs, but if the AI isn't balanced properly, it's a broken piece that doesn't work if you don't bend to power-gaming and using cheap tricks/exploits/min-max.
It doesn't end there, however, because even shield destroying builds (for captain and PC) won't destroy shields under any viable time-frame. Idk if it was a lord's perk leading them or something of the sorts, but it's absurd.
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