Sarranid Sultanate

[Astinus]

I would very like to see Sarranids with far-eastern weapons like katanas, shurikens and all those nice japanese and chinese stuff, without the bushido overused clichè... That will be a truly great characterization....

 

[Sir Pwn-A-Lot]

I would very like to see Sarranids with far-eastern weapons like katanas, shurikens and all those nice japanese and chinese stuff, without the bushido overused clichè... That will be a truly great characterization....

Lol, we need another faction for it.
But yeah, I love those ninja-turbans too xD

 

[Imnotwhatiam]

Since the first time I tried Sarranids I'm thinking about this...

 

[CryptoCactus]

I think the archers could stand to be a little more unique.  And I think an awesome way to accomplish that would be to give them an expensive bow.  But free jarids!  The game could stand to have a troop type that is actually supposed to use throwing weapons for extended periods of time.  They still wouldn't have access to shields and throwing weapons aren't exactly accurate.  But if someone didn't like the jarids they could opt for the nomad bow instead.  And doing that and taking a melee weapon would limit them to only one free stack of jarids.  I think it would help make the faction more interesting.  The archers seem very vaegirish right now.

They would be a good candidate for a skirmisher-type class. Already as it is, I've seen a surprising amount of people running around with jarids (or javelins or whatever they have currently, can't recall at the moment) and a sword, no shield. Looks really cool.

 

[Berserker Pride]

I might actually suggest removing jarids from the infantry.  The reason being that people always complain when infantry refuse to engage in melee.  Giving the jarids to a ranged class(either free or reduced price) would remove the frustration.  You can't complain when a ranged unit kills you with a ranged weapon after all.

 

[CryptoCactus]

You can't complain

You've been on the internet before, right? Hehe.

 

[Berserker Pride]

You can't complain

You've been on the internet before, right? Hehe.

Oh damn it you're right you can complain.  I always lol when people say archers have too much ammo.  I think to myself what the **** is an archer without arrows and a ****ty sword supposed to do?  Laugh the heavily armored swadians to death? 

I suggested that Jarids be free for the suggested Sarranid Skirmisher simply because at best they can only have 12 jarids if they take a melee weapon and 16 if they take none.  This amount of ammo won't last long.  And they would be easy targets for other archers so you couldn't just spam the class.

 

[Slytacular]

Has anybody faced or played as a ground troop that wears little or no armour on purpose? I think the Sarranids are meant for that. Wearing little equipment enables you to run much more fast, but since the Sarranids exist, they have a variety of armour that you can still run a good distance.

I honestly think that Sarranids and Swadians are equals. Swadians have better armour, but they don't move around as fast. Sarranids can move pretty fast, but it takes 2-5 cheap shots before a swadian goes down. Sarranids take 1-3 cheap shots, but because they move so %$&#ing fast, the player can simply move out of the way fast enough. I think when everybody has been mentioning that Swadians are better than the Middle-eastern/North-Africa faction, I think it's just most people have not yet recognized what the Sarranids can do.

 

[CtrlAltDe1337]

I would very like to see Sarranids with far-eastern weapons like katanas, shurikens and all those nice japanese and chinese stuff, without the bushido overused clichè... That will be a truly great characterization....

No...

 

[Slytacular]

I would very like to see Sarranids with far-eastern weapons like katanas, shurikens and all those nice japanese and chinese stuff, without the bushido overused clichè... That will be a truly great characterization....

No...

I agree.. A big no-no to Japanese weapons given to middle-easterns.

 

[Al_Mansur]

I agree too. An arab knight with ... a katana. Ridiculous.

 

[Slytacular]

Ninja's and Samurai's weapons are cool, but only on their terms. I get extremely disappointed in a game where there is Japanese influence in a game. It just sort of kills the European part of the game, and you start seeing people running around with katanas and shurikans. 

EDIT: last thing we need is some newbie typing "gys we ned katnas. We ned num-chucks n %&$#. I men Katanas cn cut evrything!"

 

[SanDiego]

Definitely no Asian weapons to sarranid. Though yatagans instead of javelins would be nice.

 

[Berserker Pride]

What does a yatagan look like?  I agree anyway.  Everyone and their dog has access to javelins.

 

[Slytacular]

Sarranids need to have spears. I saw in the game that there is a glitch where you can start out with a spear, but there are no spears in the weapon list.

 

[SanDiego]

@ Berserker Pride: It's basicaly curved blade (but it's curved forwards). Image posted before in this thread, here lies the quote.

Give them this because it's about time we see some "Yatağan"s in this game. It's basically a reverse-curved Turkish blade. Not sure if it fits the time frame of M&B though.

 

[Berserker Pride]

How they hell did they throw that?  In any case it is pretty sexy.

 

[SanDiego]

Well, there used to be real men back then... In any case, they could be used as improvement of current sword section

 

[Al_Mansur]

Yatagan is a turkish weapon, whereas Sarranids look like arabs. Besides javelins are really good for arabs.

I agree with Slytacular, they need spears, but I think that the sword should be their main weapon.

 

[SanDiego]

Yeah, but turks (ottoman's to be more accurate) took over entire Arabic Chanate somewhere in 15th century, so their equipment could be used for sarranids.