litany of gulps fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jun 2, 2019

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Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jun 2, 2019

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 2, 2019

• Generals/heroes and retinues like in Three Kingdoms, but not as dominating in combat (a records mode only perhaps, but I’d like to see if it can be done without the bodyguards), I think a good thing to make more vulnerable characters viable would be to restrict the ability of ranged units to target them except at short ranges (targeting a mass of men is relatively easy, a single man is not).
  
• Character classes vary with culture
  
• Cultures are typically broad categories that share character classes and often a unit roster, though this isn’t strictly necessary. Within areas sharing their cutlure characters will recruit from the local roster appropriate to their character class. Outside of this they will recruit from the roster that is geographically closest to them (so a French character in Morocco would recruit Iberian units, and so on).
  
• There are also special mercenary company retinues, led by mercenary captain characters who have access to unique units and are hired through a special mercenary mechanic, typically mercenaries are cheap to raise and expensive to maintain, but also have other drawbacks and strengths (dependent on the traits and reputation of their commander)
  
• Units are recruited from manpower, you need a certain percentage of your culture in a province to recruit a unit at normal cost if you fall below the unit will be more expensive to recruit. Mercenary retinues always have access to their units at their normal price.
  
• Like in Three Kingdoms characters have access to some basic units, with more advanced versions restricted by their class and rank, areas/nations (within the broader categories of cultures) also have their unique units (jinetes for Iberians for an example) which can be recruited by any characters regardless of class, but often still dependent on rank.
  
• Vassals should be important. And perhaps administrators should be more portrayed as landed vassals in that you can’t appoint them just about anywhere, and certain areas are expected to be administered by certain characters (especially if you have annexed a vassal who used to rule a province?)
  

• Has good melee survivability with high armor and fast mount as well as powerful attacks, excels at fighting other characters 1v1, fights with lance and shield while mounted, in addition is also equipped with either mace, flail or warhammer as well as shield, or or a poleaxe, these are used when on foot.
  
• Possesses encourage and other morale and attack buffs, as army commander has access to skills that boost army movement speed and raiding
  
• Recruits polearm infantry and heavy cavalry
  

• Well armored, but mounts slower, barded horse and wields large shield and sword, making them good at surviving for long but not good at racking up kills or dueling.
  
• Good administrator, boosts reserves and siege holdout times and provides more siege defenses. Among other benefits that generally boost a region’s defensiveness and peasantry income (castles being used to dominate the peasantry after all). Typically access to assignments that boost reserves and reduce upgrade costs and times.
  
• Possesses buffs that restore fatigue, and provide missile and melee evasion.
  
• Recruits spear and sword infantry as well as siege weapons.
  

• Needs better name (Bureaucrat? Simply "Noble"? Steward?)
  
• Lightly armored, but mounts swift horse, poor survivability and killing power in combat
  
• Excellent at assignments has access to several assignments, particularly ones that boost income from commerce and industry, among others
  
• Also decent as administrators in terms of economy, especially commerce, though without the defensive bonuses of castellans.
  
• Recruits ranged infantry and light cavalry.
  

• Special character class, new characters cannot be born bishops but can be appointed bishops at a cost of money and piety (or however that ends up being done). Certain offices can only be held by bishops.
  
• Bishops cannot marry and married characters cannot be made bishops.
  
• Decently armored and survivable in combat, but relatively low killing power, wields mace.
  
• Good at assignments, access to several which boost public order and population growth. Can provide similar boosts as administrator.
  
• Morale boosting combat buffs.
  
• Recruits various militia type infantry infantry with blunt weapons, shields and/or simple polearms and melee cavalry (light and heavy).
  

• Mercenary character class, hired on a temprory (negotiated?) basis
  
• Decent melee survivability and killing power, armed with lance, sword and shield, can also forego lance and shield for a crossbow.
  
• Your regular characters won’t be mercenary captains, and mercenary captains can’t be a permanent part of your character pool, but characters in your employ might leave to become mercenaries (changing their class to mercenary captain) if they are dissatisfied and/or adventurous and such.
  
• Provides good bonuses to looting and raiding for embedded army
  
• Comes with full retinue, cannot be changed by player, but may differ in unit type and composition between individual characters and as they advance in rank.
  
• Recruits unique crossbow (including long-ranged, powerful arbalests at higher ranks) and spear and pike units, supplemented by shock cavalry and mounted crossbowmen.
  
• Should be several different types of mercenary captain, this one is kind of a late medieval Italian mercenary type. Though generally infantry armed with crossbows and spears (pikes if later medieval) should be their specialty.
  

Randarkman fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 2, 2019