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Provides several troop rosters you can install for a more balanced Khuzait Noble Tree
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Foreword
It goes without saying that the Khuzait Noble Line, especially in the hands of the player, is not very well balanced. The troop tree starting at Tier 4 (when you get Torguud with Glaive) basically let's you play the game in an almost kind of easy mode - since you effectively have a well armored shock troop on horseback that is also a skilled archer. Though the combination is most infamous with the current Tier 6 Khan's Guard that takes this to the extreme.
To that end I have come up with several options to address this. Since it's effectively impossible to create a balanced Horse Archer unit with a swinging polearm (Glaive, Voulge, War Razor, etc.) I had the idea of splitting the Khuzait Noble Line in two: one line that is Horse Archers, and one line that I will call "Shock Cavalry". That said this is not save friendly (since it adds new units to the game) so I included 3 other modules that are save friendly for those who just want a less overpowered Khuzait Noble Tree in their game.
I would prefer not to split the troop trees, but unfortunately equipment sets are totally randomized (you can't as far as I know make half Khan's Guard carry bow & arrows and other half carry glaives) and it is somewhat necessary to adjust skills, so ultimately they need to be separate/different units.
Option A: Jack-Of-All-Trades Horse Archer and Shock Cavalry
Not Save Friendly! I highly recommend testing these units for yourself in Custom Battle and backing up any save you have before proceeding to use them in a campaign.
Turns the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard into "Jack of All Trades" armed with spear/lance, bow and arrows, and saber. Adds a "glass cannon" Shock Cavalry line that is extremely potent in melee, but lacks armor/shields, and has no ranged capability.
Option B: Archery Focus and Shock Cavalry
Not Save Friendly! I highly recommend testing these units for yourself in Custom Battle and backing up any save you have before proceeding to use them in a campaign.
Turns the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard into pure Horse Archers armed with bow and arrows and saber. Adds a "glass cannon" Shock Cavalry line that is extremely potent in melee, but lacks armor/shields, and has no ranged capability. This is currently my preferred option since it will effectively balance Khuzait armies with an equal number of Horse Archers and Cavalry. Khan's Guard line also has same number of arrows as regular Khuzait Horse Archer line and is still fairly dangerous in melee; just not to the point of being completely overpowered.
Option C: Shock Cavalry
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into a new Shock Cavalry Line for those who want to play the Khuzait more aggressively with Cavalry. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Option D: Jack-Of-All-Trades
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into a more reasonable "Jack of All Trades" that is both a Horse Archer and Lancer, this is for those who want maximum flexibility, also probably the most balanced option of the five. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Option E: Archery Focus
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into straight up Horse Archers, replacing the Glaive with Sabers. Because they don't use Polearms I redistributed their Skills to make them much more effective with OneHanded weapons. This allows the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard to still be fairly deadly in melee. This is for those who really want Khuzait Noble Line to be archer focused. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Install Instructions
Install via Vortex OR manually install by simply extracting the folder(s) to your Bannerlord Modules folder. For most Steam users this is...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules
Then just enable in the mod list when you launch the game. You may download all 5 modules at once, but only enable one in your Mod List! Since these are just simple troop mods, probably best at bottom of any mod load order.
It goes without saying that the Khuzait Noble Line, especially in the hands of the player, is not very well balanced. The troop tree starting at Tier 4 (when you get Torguud with Glaive) basically let's you play the game in an almost kind of easy mode - since you effectively have a well armored shock troop on horseback that is also a skilled archer. Though the combination is most infamous with the current Tier 6 Khan's Guard that takes this to the extreme.
To that end I have come up with several options to address this. Since it's effectively impossible to create a balanced Horse Archer unit with a swinging polearm (Glaive, Voulge, War Razor, etc.) I had the idea of splitting the Khuzait Noble Line in two: one line that is Horse Archers, and one line that I will call "Shock Cavalry". That said this is not save friendly (since it adds new units to the game) so I included 3 other modules that are save friendly for those who just want a less overpowered Khuzait Noble Tree in their game.
I would prefer not to split the troop trees, but unfortunately equipment sets are totally randomized (you can't as far as I know make half Khan's Guard carry bow & arrows and other half carry glaives) and it is somewhat necessary to adjust skills, so ultimately they need to be separate/different units.
Option A: Jack-Of-All-Trades Horse Archer and Shock Cavalry
Not Save Friendly! I highly recommend testing these units for yourself in Custom Battle and backing up any save you have before proceeding to use them in a campaign.
Turns the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard into "Jack of All Trades" armed with spear/lance, bow and arrows, and saber. Adds a "glass cannon" Shock Cavalry line that is extremely potent in melee, but lacks armor/shields, and has no ranged capability.
Option B: Archery Focus and Shock Cavalry
Not Save Friendly! I highly recommend testing these units for yourself in Custom Battle and backing up any save you have before proceeding to use them in a campaign.
Turns the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard into pure Horse Archers armed with bow and arrows and saber. Adds a "glass cannon" Shock Cavalry line that is extremely potent in melee, but lacks armor/shields, and has no ranged capability. This is currently my preferred option since it will effectively balance Khuzait armies with an equal number of Horse Archers and Cavalry. Khan's Guard line also has same number of arrows as regular Khuzait Horse Archer line and is still fairly dangerous in melee; just not to the point of being completely overpowered.
Option C: Shock Cavalry
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into a new Shock Cavalry Line for those who want to play the Khuzait more aggressively with Cavalry. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Option D: Jack-Of-All-Trades
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into a more reasonable "Jack of All Trades" that is both a Horse Archer and Lancer, this is for those who want maximum flexibility, also probably the most balanced option of the five. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Option E: Archery Focus
Save Friendly! Turns the Khuzait Noble Line into straight up Horse Archers, replacing the Glaive with Sabers. Because they don't use Polearms I redistributed their Skills to make them much more effective with OneHanded weapons. This allows the Torguud, Kheshig, and Khan's Guard to still be fairly deadly in melee. This is for those who really want Khuzait Noble Line to be archer focused. Can install/uninstall any time and units will revert back to base game default.
Install Instructions
Install via Vortex OR manually install by simply extracting the folder(s) to your Bannerlord Modules folder. For most Steam users this is...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules
Then just enable in the mod list when you launch the game. You may download all 5 modules at once, but only enable one in your Mod List! Since these are just simple troop mods, probably best at bottom of any mod load order.