Just having units fight each other one on one even tends to remove the value of morale. In actual play, how much infrastructure it takes to raise and replenish a unit is important.Īn infantry unit that's great against other infantry but not against missiles or cavalry isn't as useful in actual play as a unit that's more versatile. In actual play, the flatter trajectory of crossbow bolts makes them a bit less useful than arrows fired from bows. Overall, I'd say they're a ripoff, unless you're Milan going with the all-cities approach, in which case dismounted broken lances are your only heavy infantry.Well, testing is a big improvement over looking at stats, since the printed stats in M2TW are extremely misleading.īut testing a unit by having it fight one on one on a flat surface against a unit that performs the same basic function doesn't tell the whole story either. Once again, purple-headed stepchild.ĭismounted men-at-arms and broken lances have very fancy armor, have high maintenance costs, and come late in the game, but in skill and morale are similar to other medium-grade swordsmen. They come later than when most factions get DFKs (which Byzantines effectively get, in the form of dismounted latinkon, from citadel armouries). This is because the Byzantines are CA's purple-headed stepchild.ĭismounted Byzantine lancers have very upgradable armor (even more than Norse swordsmen), but come from fortresses with barracks. They also get a little more upgradable armor than Iberian militias.īyzantine infantry are like Iberian militias, except they don't get free upkeep in cities.
Norse swordsmen give the advantage of extremely early recruitment, available from basic castles (dismounted huscarls don't hurt the early Danish infantry roster either, of course). The Iberian militias, swordsmen militia and urban militia, give the advantages of urban recruitment and low maintenance. Arguably, dismounted broken lances and dismounted men-at-arms belong in the same family. :pNorse Swordsmen form part of a family of similar units, which I'd call "medium-grade sword-and-shield fighters": Byzantine infantry, dismounted Byzantine lancers, Norse swordsmen, swordsmen militia, and urban militia. I'm probably missing a lot of awesome units.
I really enjoyed the dismounted feudal knights and the Norse swordsmen. I'm still new to Medieval II, so I haven't really gotten around to try a whole lot of units.
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