men at arms

[L4cus]

2 ideas...
an upgrade for footmen (the upgrade was supossed to be swordmen) or another ifferent unit, more expensive but better...

i would really like them to be a different unit, that way we could give each faction a different version of the men at arms...
example:
-warhammer version: for england, spain
-sword version: for france, the holy empire
-halberd version: hungary, polish lithuanian commonwealth

similar to late knights versions...

[Badnorth]

Okay here's the Men at arms

Halberd
Sword
Warhammer

[Squirrel5555]

I like the second idea. It allows for more creativity and also is a better representation of what men at arms were.
Very nice!

[L4cus]

ok, tomorrow i will post stats for them.
we variety for every faction every era...

[Maxbirykov2004]

Any idea how you (or i) can code it?

[Badnorth]

Finished the men at arms halberd

It is on 2nd postpost

[L4cus]

Any idea how you (or i) can code it?

as different units...they would be buyable, but i dont know anything about the upgrade store...

[Badnorth]

Wait there id also a man at arms from Grall I didn't see that sorry

I'll put it here

[Squirrel5555]

L4cus are thess footmen or footknights?

Or do you want me to make footknight sprites and these will he footmen?

[L4cus]

Ok i decided to search more about this:
1 man at arms was a military function
2 knight was a nobility rank
3 all knights were men at arms
4 non all men at arms were knights

So this unit will represent those men at arms that are not knights. They used to fight on horseback, they tehy fiught as heavy foot infantry too. So we could make it a mountable-dismountable knight version
Heavy infantry-cavalry, without some abilities the knights could have to make the distiction.
The weapons could be different too: halberdiers, warhammer, swords, lamce (when mounted)

My suggestion is to make it a infantry unit with lots of posibilities: anti-heavy, anti-mounted, antu-infantry. Deppending on the arm they use.

Make lots of version of them could be nice too, or just make one foot version with all these arms incluided. So bonuses could be decided deppending on that too.

Here a wikipefia link:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-at-arms

[L4cus]

This decission will affect footknight role as well...
So i wouldnt like to decide it myself (i could if i want)

[Maxbirykov2004]

Hmmm... Interesting... Wait, i have an idea, What if men at arms can change their weapons in tc or barracks...

[Gral.Sturnn]

squirrels sprite

[L4cus]

Hmmm... Interesting... Wait, i have an idea, What if men at arms can change their weapons in tc or barracks...

Sounds good, i will make sure its possible

[L4cus]

squirrels sprite

This wpuld be the halberd version.

[Gral.Sturnn]

so theer will be knights and men at arms at the same time with similar roles?

[L4cus]

they would be stronger, and lots of variants not limited by the faction (one faction will only be able to produce 1 knid of foot knight) also there will be mountable-dismountable variant too
but knights would have abilitites like die hard, slight healing ability and maybe aura bonuses

so, while foot knights role deppends on the faction u chose, men at arms role deppends on what variant u produce...

[Squirrel5555]

Ahhhhhh good idea


So all factions can produce all versions of man at arms.

But some factions will have access to 1 or 2 dismounted knight variants that make them specialised.

I think this is what you mean?

[L4cus]

yes, thatssssss what i mean!
if its ok, then i will start working on them
and u could help me with the images

[Gral.Sturnn]

polehammer version

[Squirrel5555]

so we need warhammer, sword and halberd versions for the knight.

we got my halberd, gral's polehammer and we need sword now

[Gral.Sturnn]

mounted men at arms

[L4cus]

Looks great!
It could be affected by "cavalry guns" tech

[Squirrel5555]

nice image
so I guess we also have mounted men at arms

[L4cus]

should sword version be shielded?

[Squirrel5555]

the knight? Not sure, but I am super tired, will probably have some tea and rest, if no one else wants to, I could probably make an image tomorrow.

[L4cus]

the knight?

i mean men at arms sword variant.
take a nap, squirrel...

[Maxbirykov2004]

Anm

[Squirrel5555]

the knight?

i mean men at arms sword variant.
take a nap, squirrel...

Yeah, I think it can have a shield

Do you want images for foot knight sword version?

[L4cus]

foot knights stuffs on fot knights topic