TheCulturePolice

Huge respect to TaleWorlds. I like their vanilla setup and am happy with 99.9% of it. However, if you change the remaining 0.1%, it should become even more interesting.

What is this MOD?

Why da huge round shield on horseback since they cannot make shield wall on the horse? How they reload crossbow with mitten gloves? Why do some militias have powerful arbalests? Why are Karakhergit chieftains dressed the same as Khuzait nobles?

That's where the Culture Police come in. Please check screenshots and if you felt they look better than vanilla, this mod worth to use.

Remember, this mod is a culture police, not a history police. This is Calradia.

a. UNIT VISUAL IMPROVEMENT

1. Archers and crossbowmen never use mitten type gloves.
2. Cavalry troops never use huge round shield.
3. Khuzait high tier troops sometimes use aserai horse.
4. Remove most of spaulders and pauldrons from troops. You can still buy them from shop.
5. Imperial legions now use various oval shields.
6. Most of the troops and nobles' equipment has been replaced and looks much better. This includes minor mercenary groups and caravans.

The parts were carefully chosen to avoid mesh collisions between armors. You no longer see parts of the helmet or gloves sink into the armor.

b. ITEM VISUAL/STATS

1. All tier3+ lances are now couch-able.
2. Remove spear brace function from all spears except for pikes.
3. Shorten the length of pikes. They are now decent.
4. Replace the spear/mace/axe/sword parts with a more suitable one.
5. Remove ridiculous pommmel from all maces. (except for tournament reward)
6. Replace graphic model of "noble bow" to same as "steppe recurve bow".
7. All short bows prioritize the hip holder rather than the back.
8. Rename "hickory crossbow" as "heavy crossbow". There will be two different items with the same name, sorry.
9. Swap graphic model for steel/bronze highland large shield.
10. Fix the culture of some items.

• khan's heavy gloves...khuzait

• steel shield...aserai

• oval shield...imperial

• heavy crossbow / bound crossbow...imperial

• hickory crossbow...vlandia

c. UNIT STATS

1. Improve equipments of low tier recruits. Now they have various spear instead of agricultural tool.
2. Lower bandits and caravan guards skill levels since they have extremely high skill.
3. Remove arbalest from the vlandian militia!
4. Most crossbowmen now carry two bolt bags.
5. Less horse bardings. Only tier5+ troops use them.
6. Remove noble mounts from troop tree. (except for Druzhinnik Champ)
7. Upgraded units have higher skills than lower tier units. (In vanilla, upgraded units sometimes have lower skills.)
8. Improve 2 trees.

• Vlandia Vanguard tree: Now they use mace/axe. (Banner Knights use sword.)

• Khuzait Horse Archer tree: Now they use glaive. (Khans Guards use sabre.)

d. COMPATIBILITY

Compatible with vanilla save data, and vice versa. (tested in v1.2.8+) No additional unique items/troops. Your save data will remain intact.

Compatible with "My Little Warband" (load Culture Police first.) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892150920

Compatible with "More Realistic Quivers" (load order does not matter.) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3082955330

e. WARNING

Once installed, steam achievements are disabled. NPC lord/noble's equipments are also affected by this mod. Note that hero equipments are generated when they are born and never changed till they die. So maybe you need to create a new game to change everything.