Shock Troop's stats are significantly worse across the board...why would I want one? Looks like from the picture they have a polearm of some kind instead of javelins, but similar armor...do they have some kind of hidden advantage to offset the lower skills?
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Sturgian Shock Troop v. Veteran Warrior
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Are you using the stats from 1.2 or 1.3 (beta)?
Here's the skills taken right from SandboxCore\ModuleData\spnpccharacters.xml of 1.3:
| Veteran Warrior | Shock Troop | |
| Athletics | 130 | 125 |
| Riding | 60 | 45 |
| OneHanded | 130 | 140 |
| TwoHanded | 80 | 60 |
| Polearm | 80 | 140 |
| Bow | 60 | 75 |
| Crossbow | 20 | 15 |
| Throwing | 130 | 30 |
Veteran Warrior uses Athletics, OneHanded, and Throwing due to gear (no horse, 1h axe, shield, javelin).
Shock Troop uses Athletics, OneHanded, and Polearm due to gear (no horse, 1h sword, shield, spear).
As you can see for the stats that matter, the two are largely equal with an edge to shock troop in all but athletics. Use the Veteran Warrior when you want infantry with a bit of pre-melee range attack. Use Shock Troop when defending from cavalry is important.
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Haha seems like the names should be swapped
Never really thought about it before, but yeah that would make sense.
The name "shock troop" isn't very inspiring tbh.
They're pretty good in field battles, atleast offensively. But they fall short in two regards: Their armor is worse than the Veteran Warriors so they're more vulnerable, especially since they will be spending most of their time fighting with their Warrazor and not their 1H+SHIELD. And also because the Warrazor is one of the longest, if not THE longest, weapon in the game, making them rather useless in sieges when units are all cramped together in tight spaces.
They're pretty good in field battles, atleast offensively. But they fall short in two regards: Their armor is worse than the Veteran Warriors so they're more vulnerable, especially since they will be spending most of their time fighting with their Warrazor and not their 1H+SHIELD. And also because the Warrazor is one of the longest, if not THE longest, weapon in the game, making them rather useless in sieges when units are all cramped together in tight spaces.
Ok, glad to see this has been addressed. I'm in 1.2 b/c I had read there's some weird stuff happening in the beta.
Hmm.. I wonder what stats are on that warrazor they wield, I made one for my companion with reduced damage and faster swingspeed (84 speed, 150 damage) and she absolutely demolishes with it.
Shock troops are surprisingly one of the most effective T5 infantry units there is, thanks to their secondary weapon: the War Razor. It one-shots most heavy infantry. Check out this post which goes into much more detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandblade/comments/g1ugwa/in_depth_sturgian_unit_testing/
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